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International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1350-4509Verify ISSN ↗1745-2627Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 12 / 876 | 98th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 15 / 432 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.7.
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 12 of 876) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 15 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 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 16.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.298, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 73.
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1350-4509 and its online ISSN is 1745-2627.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 7.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 78. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (38.4%), Türkiye (6%) and Japan (4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 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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