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Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2352-9385Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,640 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 84 / 876 | 90th | Q1 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 12 / 76 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 84 of 876) and Q1 in Computers in Earth Sciences (rank 12 of 76), by CiteScore 2025.
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.074, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,640 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.
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2352-9385.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 2.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment published 415 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.3%), India (14.5%) and United States (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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