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Soil and Sediment Contamination is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1532-0383Verify ISSN ↗1549-7887Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soil Science | 71 / 167 | 57th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 95 / 180 | 47th | Q3 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 91 / 151 | 40th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 103 / 157 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Soil and Sediment Contamination is Q2 in Soil Science (rank 71 of 167), Q3 in Pollution (rank 95 of 180) and Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 91 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Soil and Sediment Contamination 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.462, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
Soil and Sediment Contamination is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1532-0383 and its online ISSN is 1549-7887.
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.
Soil and Sediment Contamination has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 2.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 159 Scopus journals in Soil Science.
Soil and Sediment Contamination published 126 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (19%), China (11.5%) and Iran (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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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