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Geography and Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Beijing Normal University Press.
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ISSN 2096-7438Verify ISSN ↗2666-6839Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Beijing Normal University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 7 / 184 | 96th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 33 / 876 | 96th | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 11 / 231 | 95th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 27 / 491 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.3.
Geography and Sustainability is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 7 of 184), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 33 of 876) and Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 11 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Geography and 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 11.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.031, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,700 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.
Geography and Sustainability is published by Beijing Normal University Press. Its print ISSN is 2096-7438 and its online ISSN is 2666-6839.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Geography and Sustainability has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 5.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Geography and Sustainability published 99 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.5%), United States (6.6%) and United Kingdom (4.8%). 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.
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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