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Environmental Science and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.1), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1462-9011Verify ISSN ↗1873-6416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,250 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 34 / 876 | 96th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 43 / 432 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.1.
Environmental Science and Policy is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 34 of 876) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 43 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Science and Policy 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 11.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.720, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 173.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,250 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 Science and Policy is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1462-9011 and its online ISSN is 1873-6416.
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.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Science and Policy has an h-index of 205 and a 2-year mean of 6.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Environmental Science and Policy published 298 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 315. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from France (12.9%), United Kingdom (10%) and United States (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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