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Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 8.2), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 2213-0780Verify ISSN ↗2213-0799Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 40 / 156 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 8.2.
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism is Q2 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 40 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.115, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,340 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 Outdoor Recreation and Tourism is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 2213-0780 and its online ISSN is 2213-0799.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Tourism.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 3.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 152 Scopus journals in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism published 123 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17%), China (9.7%) and Spain (8.5%).
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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