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Journal of Sustainability Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8). Published by Hapres Limited.
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ISSN 2632-6582Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hapres Limited
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 127 / 295 | 57th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 472 / 876 | 46th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 197 / 307 | 35th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 248 / 345 | 28th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Sustainability Research is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 127 of 295), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 472 of 876) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 197 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sustainability Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.290, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of Sustainability Research is published by Hapres Limited. Its ISSN is 2632-6582.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sustainability Research has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Journal of Sustainability Research published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 80. 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 82 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (9.8%), Portugal (8.5%) and Hungary (7%).
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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