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Nature Climate Change is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 39), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 1758-678XVerify ISSN ↗1758-6798Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 1 / 744 | 99th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 1 / 307 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 39.
Nature Climate Change is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 1 of 744) and Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 1 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature Climate Change is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 39, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 7.978, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 322.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Climate Change is published by Nature Research. Its print ISSN is 1758-678X and its online ISSN is 1758-6798.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nature Climate Change has an h-index of 382 and a 2-year mean of 13.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 39, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Nature Climate Change published 310 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 339. 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 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (25.4%), China (9.6%) and United Kingdom (9.2%).
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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