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Environmental Research Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Institute of Physics.
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Publisher: Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 39 / 725 | 94th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 34 / 249 | 86th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 86 / 345 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
Environmental Research Letters is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 39 of 725), Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 34 of 249) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 86 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Research Letters 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 9.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.933, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 222.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,045 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 Research Letters is published by Institute of Physics. Its ISSN is 1748-9326.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Environmental Research Letters has an h-index of 265 and a 2-year mean of 4.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Environmental Research Letters published 958 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 1,021. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.2%), China (12.1%) and United Kingdom (6.7%).
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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