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Journal of Environmental Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.9), formerly ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press.
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ISSN 0301-4797Verify ISSN ↗1095-8630Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,750 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 26 / 432 | 94th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 21 / 241 | 91st | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 21 / 151 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present (also 1975, 1973), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.9.
Journal of Environmental Management is Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 26 of 432), Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 21 of 241) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 21 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Environmental Management 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 13.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.923, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 296.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,750 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 Environmental Management is published by Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 0301-4797 and its online ISSN is 1095-8630.
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 was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Environmental Management has an h-index of 327 and a 2-year mean of 9.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Journal of Environmental Management published 4,389 papers in 2025. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (48.5%), United States (10.3%) and Japan (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 28 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 12 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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