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Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-9110Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 16 / 241 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 13 / 151 | 91st | Q1 |
| Pollution | 17 / 180 | 90th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 16 / 157 | 90th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 17 / 151 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.
Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters is Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 16 of 241), Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 13 of 151) and Q1 in Pollution (rank 17 of 180), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 15, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.518, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,610 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 Letters is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-9110.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 7.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 38. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.4%), China (18.1%) and India (13.4%).
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.
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