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Journal of Sustainable Mining is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Central Mining Institute.
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ISSN 2300-3960Verify ISSN ↗2543-4950Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Central Mining Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 141 / 333 | 57th | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 124 / 241 | 48th | Q3 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 126 / 244 | 48th | Q3 |
| Pollution | 103 / 180 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 214 / 345 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Sustainable Mining is Q2 in Geology (rank 141 of 333), Q3 in Environmental Engineering (rank 124 of 241) and Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 126 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sustainable Mining 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.423, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 37.
Journal of Sustainable Mining is published by Central Mining Institute. Its print ISSN is 2300-3960 and its online ISSN is 2543-4950.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Sustainable Mining has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Journal of Sustainable Mining published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 247. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Poland (23.2%), India (13.6%) and Brazil (9.1%).
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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