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Global Change Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1354-1013Verify ISSN ↗1365-2486Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 5 / 491 | 99th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 4 / 249 | 98th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 3 / 134 | 98th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 7 / 157 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.1.
Global Change Biology is Q1 in Ecology (rank 5 of 491), Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 4 of 249) and Q1 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 3 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Change Biology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 21.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.581, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 353.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,550 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.
Global Change Biology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1354-1013 and its online ISSN is 1365-2486.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Change Biology has an h-index of 407 and a 2-year mean of 10.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Global Change Biology published 681 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.8%), United States (13.5%) and Australia (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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