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Journal of Environmental Quality is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0047-2425Verify ISSN ↗1537-2537Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$1,910 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 164 / 432 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 107 / 279 | 61st | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 94 / 241 | 61st | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 69 / 151 | 54th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 84 / 180 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Environmental Quality is Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 164 of 432), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 107 of 279) and Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 94 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Environmental Quality 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.740, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 201.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,910 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 Quality is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0047-2425 and its online ISSN is 1537-2537.
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.
Journal of Environmental Quality has an h-index of 260 and a 2-year mean of 2.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #167 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Journal of Environmental Quality published 156 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 201. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (51%), China (7.3%) and India (4.6%). 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.
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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