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Natural Resources Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by University of New Mexico.
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ISSN 0028-0739Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of New Mexico
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 525 / 1162 | 54th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 225 / 307 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Natural Resources Journal is Q2 in Law (rank 525 of 1162) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 225 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Natural Resources Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Natural Resources Journal is published by University of New Mexico. Its ISSN is 0028-0739.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Natural Resources Journal has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Natural Resources Journal published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2005 with 5. 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.
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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