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Environmental Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Environmental Philosophy Inc.
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ISSN 0163-4275Verify ISSN ↗2153-7895Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Environmental Philosophy Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 188 / 891 | 78th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 210 / 307 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1990, 1988, 1984, 1979–1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Environmental Ethics is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 188 of 891) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 210 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Ethics is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.312, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
Environmental Ethics is published by Environmental Philosophy Inc. Its print ISSN is 0163-4275 and its online ISSN is 2153-7895.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Ethics has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Environmental Ethics published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 52. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none 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.
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