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Environments - MDPI is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2076-3298Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$2,172 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 106 / 736 | 85th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 73 / 249 | 70th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 141 / 345 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Environments - MDPI is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 106 of 736), Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 73 of 249) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 141 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Environments - MDPI 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.927, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 60.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,172 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.
Environments - MDPI is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2076-3298.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Environments - MDPI has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 3.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Environments - MDPI published 507 papers in 2025. 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 China (12.5%), Spain (11.3%) and United States (9.6%).
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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