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Land Degradation and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1085-3278Verify ISSN ↗1099-145XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$5,230 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 33 / 314 | 89th | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 33 / 167 | 80th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 51 / 249 | 79th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 53 / 157 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1989–1990), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Land Degradation and Development is Q1 in Development (rank 33 of 314), Q1 in Soil Science (rank 33 of 167) and Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 51 of 249), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Land Degradation and Development is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.070, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 125.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,230 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.
Land Degradation and Development is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1085-3278 and its online ISSN is 1099-145X.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Land Degradation and Development has an h-index of 144 and a 2-year mean of 3.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Land Degradation and Development published 682 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (67.8%), Poland (5.6%) and India (3.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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