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International Journal of Environment and Waste Management is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1478-9868Verify ISSN ↗1478-9876Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 197 / 241 | 18th | Q4 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 138 / 151 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management is Q4 in Environmental Engineering (rank 197 of 241) and Q4 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 138 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 26.
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1478-9868 and its online ISSN is 1478-9876.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #196 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management published 168 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 172. 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 28 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (44.6%), Indonesia (12.5%) and China (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.6 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.
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