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Journal of Environmental Radioactivity is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0265-931XVerify ISSN ↗1879-1700Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waste Management and Disposal | 70 / 151 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Pollution | 85 / 180 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 80 / 151 | 47th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 88 / 157 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity is Q2 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 70 of 151), Q2 in Pollution (rank 85 of 180) and Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 80 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.646, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,800 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 Radioactivity is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0265-931X and its online ISSN is 1879-1700.
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 Radioactivity has an h-index of 136 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #77 of 139 Scopus journals in Waste Management and Disposal.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity published 209 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 314. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (12.8%), China (12%) and United States (4.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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.
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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