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Remote Sensing of Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0034-4257Verify ISSN ↗1879-0704Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 1 / 333 | 99th | Q1 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 1 / 76 | 99th | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 2 / 167 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present (also 1969–1971), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.8.
Remote Sensing of Environment is Q1 in Geology (rank 1 of 333), Q1 in Computers in Earth Sciences (rank 1 of 76) and Q1 in Soil Science (rank 2 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Remote Sensing of Environment 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 22.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 397.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,450 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 of Environment is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0034-4257 and its online ISSN is 1879-0704.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Remote Sensing of Environment has an h-index of 458 and a 2-year mean of 11.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Remote Sensing of Environment published 523 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 590. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (30.8%), United States (19.7%) and Germany (10.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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