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Extractive Industries and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2214-790XVerify ISSN ↗2214-7918Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 85 / 876 | 90th | Q1 |
| Development | 31 / 314 | 90th | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 9 / 52 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 75 / 432 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Extractive Industries and Society is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 85 of 876), Q1 in Development (rank 31 of 314) and Q1 in Economic Geology (rank 9 of 52), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Extractive Industries and Society is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.676, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 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.
Extractive Industries and Society is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2214-790X and its online ISSN is 2214-7918.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Extractive Industries and Society has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 3.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Extractive Industries and Society published 204 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Canada (11.1%), United States (9.4%) and South Africa (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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