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International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), formerly ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Publishers.
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ISSN 1474-6778Verify ISSN ↗1478-7466Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 417 / 876 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 267 / 432 | 38th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 234 / 345 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 417 of 876), Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 267 of 432) and Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 234 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development is published by Inderscience Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1474-6778 and its online ISSN is 1478-7466.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #597 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 86. 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 40 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (48.3%), India (10%) and Italy (5%).
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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