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Mine Water and the Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1025-9112Verify ISSN ↗1616-1068Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 79 / 244 | 67th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 100 / 279 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 2001–2002, 1991–1995), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Mine Water and the Environment is Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 79 of 244) and Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 100 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Mine Water and the Environment 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.552, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
Mine Water and the Environment is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1025-9112 and its online ISSN is 1616-1068.
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.
Mine Water and the Environment has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 2.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Mine Water and the Environment published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 102. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (50%), United States (5.7%) and Canada (5.5%). 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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