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Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2813-2815Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 185 / 307 | 39th | Q3 |
| Management Information Systems | 100 / 143 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism is Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 185 of 307) and Q3 in Management Information Systems (rank 100 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.360, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,418 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.
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2813-2815.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 2.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 291 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (miscellaneous).
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 34. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (10.9%), Uzbekistan (10%) and Malaysia (6.7%).
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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