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Mountain Research and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by International Mountain Society.
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ISSN 0276-4741Verify ISSN ↗1994-7151Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Mountain Society
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 101 / 314 | 67th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 101 / 249 | 59th | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 97 / 157 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Mountain Research and Development is Q2 in Development (rank 101 of 314), Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 101 of 249) and Q3 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 97 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Mountain Research 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.549, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$850 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.
Mountain Research and Development is published by International Mountain Society. Its print ISSN is 0276-4741 and its online ISSN is 1994-7151.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Mountain Research and Development has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Mountain Research and Development published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 75. 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 81 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Switzerland (12.1%), Italy (10.3%) and Austria (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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