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International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1740-8822Verify ISSN ↗1740-8830Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 285 / 345 | 17th | Q4 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 271 / 317 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development is Q4 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 285 of 345) and Q4 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 271 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Innovation 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 29.
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-8822 and its online ISSN is 1740-8830.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Innovation field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #264 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 100. 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 62 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (58.3%), Brazil (6.5%) and France (5.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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