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International Journal of Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), formerly ABDC C. Published by Inderscience Publishers.
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ISSN 0960-1406Verify ISSN ↗1741-5268Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 652 / 876 | 25th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 369 / 432 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
International Journal of Sustainable Development is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 652 of 876) and Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 369 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sustainable Development is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 34.
International Journal of Sustainable Development is published by Inderscience Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0960-1406 and its online ISSN is 1741-5268.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2016 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 Sustainable Development has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #584 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Sustainable Development published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 87. 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 66 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (75.8%), India (9.1%) and Türkiye (3%). 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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