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Regional Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2097-0129Verify ISSN ↗2666-660XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 12 / 295 | 96th | Q1 |
| Development | 19 / 314 | 94th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 66 / 876 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 91 / 345 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Regional Sustainability is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 12 of 295), Q1 in Development (rank 19 of 314) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 66 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Regional Sustainability is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.081, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Regional Sustainability is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2097-0129 and its online ISSN is 2666-660X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Regional Sustainability has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 5.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Regional Sustainability published 42 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (38.3%), Indonesia (6.7%) and India (4.7%).
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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