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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.5), ABDC A, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 2210-4224Verify ISSN ↗2210-4232Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,610 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 14 / 744 | 98th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 27 / 307 | 91st | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 65 / 345 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.5.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 14 of 744), Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 27 of 307) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 65 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 11.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.155, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 93.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,610 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 Innovation and Societal Transitions is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 2210-4224 and its online ISSN is 2210-4232.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 6.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions published 106 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 121. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (17.1%), Sweden (14.2%) and Finland (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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