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Rural Sustainability Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Sciendo.
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ISSN 2256-0939Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciendo
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 132 / 235 | 44th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 522 / 876 | 40th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 327 / 491 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 113 / 134 | 16th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Rural Sustainability Research is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 132 of 235), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 522 of 876) and Q3 in Ecology (rank 327 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rural Sustainability Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Rural Sustainability Research is published by Sciendo. Its ISSN is 2256-0939.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rural Sustainability Research has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #115 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Rural Sustainability Research published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 24. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Latvia (62.6%), Ukraine (8.1%) and Lithuania (3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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