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Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2950-3701Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 59 / 235 | 75th | Q1 |
| Finance | 98 / 342 | 71st | Q2 |
| Accounting | 62 / 191 | 67th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 163 / 345 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 59 of 235), Q2 in Finance (rank 98 of 342) and Q2 in Accounting (rank 62 of 191), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting 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 5, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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 Sustainable Finance and Accounting is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2950-3701.
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.
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 Sustainable Finance and Accounting has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 9.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 15. 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 27 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.9%), United States (19.8%) and China (14.8%).
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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