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Journal of Hazardous Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0304-3894Verify ISSN ↗1873-3336Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 6 / 151 | 96th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 10 / 241 | 96th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 8 / 180 | 95th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 8 / 157 | 95th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 9 / 151 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present (also 1977, 1975), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.8.
Journal of Hazardous Materials is Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 6 of 151), Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 10 of 241) and Q1 in Pollution (rank 8 of 180), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Hazardous Materials 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 20.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.621, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 401.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,340 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 Hazardous Materials is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0304-3894 and its online ISSN is 1873-3336.
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 Hazardous Materials has an h-index of 430 and a 2-year mean of 10.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 147 Scopus journals in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.
Journal of Hazardous Materials published 3,946 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (75.3%), South Korea (5.7%) and United States (2.8%). 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. 50 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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