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Global Environmental Change is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.2), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0959-3780Verify ISSN ↗1872-9495Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$6,440 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 9 / 876 | 99th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 8 / 491 | 98th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 12 / 432 | 97th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 5 / 134 | 96th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 17 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 10 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.2.
Global Environmental Change is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 9 of 876), Q1 in Ecology (rank 8 of 491) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 12 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Environmental Change 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 19.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.283, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 255.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,440 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 Environmental Change is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0959-3780 and its online ISSN is 1872-9495.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Regional Studies, Planning and Environment field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Environmental Change has an h-index of 300 and a 2-year mean of 9.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Global Environmental Change published 105 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 185. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.2%), China (14.7%) and United Kingdom (12.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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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