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Environmental Science and Pollution Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0944-1344Verify ISSN ↗1614-7499Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$2,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 18 / 151 | 88th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 22 / 180 | 88th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 25 / 157 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research is Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 18 of 151), Q1 in Pollution (rank 22 of 180) and Q1 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 25 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.909, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 234.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,790 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 Pollution Research is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0944-1344 and its online ISSN is 1614-7499.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research has an h-index of 267 and a 2-year mean of 6.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 147 Scopus journals in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research published 1,488 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 7,231. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (19.1%), China (9.4%) and Brazil (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 682 retracted papers are recorded (13.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 181 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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