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Environmental Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1866-6280Verify ISSN ↗1866-6299Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 56 / 333 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 37 / 184 | 80th | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 46 / 167 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 80 / 279 | 71st | Q2 |
| Pollution | 68 / 180 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 62 / 134 | 54th | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 74 / 157 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Environmental Earth Sciences is Q1 in Geology (rank 56 of 333), Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 37 of 184) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 46 of 167), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Environmental Earth Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.696, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 173.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Environmental Earth Sciences is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1866-6280 and its online ISSN is 1866-6299.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Earth Sciences has an h-index of 150 and a 2-year mean of 4.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Environmental Earth Sciences published 706 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 857. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (43.6%), India (4.4%) and Saudi Arabia (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 29 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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