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Highlights of Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Highlights of Science.
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ISSN 2696-628XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Highlights of Science
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 118 / 231 | 49th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 239 / 345 | 30th | Q3 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 106 / 151 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Highlights of Sustainability is Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 118 of 231), Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 239 of 345) and Q3 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 106 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Highlights of 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.276, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Highlights of Sustainability is published by Highlights of Science. Its ISSN is 2696-628X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Highlights of Sustainability has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 1.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Highlights of Sustainability published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 21. 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 86 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (14.6%), United States (10.5%) and Australia (9.4%).
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.
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