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Environmental Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2523-8922Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 87 / 235 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 135 / 249 | 45th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 218 / 345 | 36th | Q3 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 89 / 134 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Environmental Sustainability is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 87 of 235), Q3 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 135 of 249) and Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 218 of 345), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Environmental Sustainability is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.683, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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 Sustainability is published by Springer. Its ISSN is 2523-8922.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Sustainability has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 3.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Environmental Sustainability published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 89. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (63.6%), China (4.4%) and Indonesia (2.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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