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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), ABDC A, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 2212-4209Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,200 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Research | 5 / 108 | 95th | Q1 |
| Geology | 23 / 333 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 32 / 244 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction is Q1 in Safety Research (rank 5 of 108), Q1 in Geology (rank 23 of 333) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 32 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.243, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 115.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,200 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.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction is published by Elsevier. Its ISSN is 2212-4209.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction has an h-index of 138 and a 2-year mean of 6.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 106 Scopus journals in Safety Research.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction published 757 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 890. 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (17.6%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and China (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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