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Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1616-864XVerify ISSN ↗1867-979XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 175 / 279 | 37th | Q3 |
| Pollution | 115 / 180 | 36th | Q3 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 101 / 151 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 97 / 134 | 27th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 119 / 157 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025 (also 2003–2004, 1998, 1995, 1988–1992, 1984–1986, 1982, 1980), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is Q3 in Water Science and Technology (rank 175 of 279), Q3 in Pollution (rank 115 of 180) and Q3 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 101 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3, 37th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.353, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1616-864X and its online ISSN is 1867-979X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 300. 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 2 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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