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GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Oekom - Gesellschaft fuer Oekologische Kommunikation mbH.
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ISSN 0940-5550Verify ISSN ↗2625-5413Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oekom - Gesellschaft fuer Oekologische Kommunikation mbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 237 / 744 | 68th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 116 / 283 | 59th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 164 / 307 | 46th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 141 / 249 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 237 of 744), Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 116 of 283) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 164 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.587, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 45.
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is published by Oekom - Gesellschaft fuer Oekologische Kommunikation mbH. Its print ISSN is 0940-5550 and its online ISSN is 2625-5413.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #196 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 109. 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.
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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