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Materials Today Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2589-2347Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 33 / 402 | 91st | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 39 / 475 | 91st | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 43 / 345 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.6.
Materials Today Sustainability is Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 33 of 402), Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 39 of 475) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 43 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Materials Today Sustainability 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 14.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.369, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,530 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.
Materials Today Sustainability is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2589-2347.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Materials Today Sustainability has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 8.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Materials Today Sustainability published 225 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 409. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (18%), South Korea (9.3%) and Spain (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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