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Journal of Cleaner Production is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0959-6526Verify ISSN ↗1879-1786Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,660 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (all) | 3 / 249 | 98th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 10 / 506 | 98th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 11 / 425 | 97th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 23 / 345 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.3.
Journal of Cleaner Production is Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 3 of 249), Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 10 of 506) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 11 of 425), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Cleaner Production 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 21.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.019, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 397.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,660 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Cleaner Production is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0959-6526 and its online ISSN is 1879-1786.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field (down from 2 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cleaner Production has an h-index of 453 and a 2-year mean of 13.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 234 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (all).
Journal of Cleaner Production published 2,746 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 5,556. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (55.3%), United States (7.8%) and India (4.5%). 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. 52 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 23 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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