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South of Russia: Ecology, Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Kamerton.
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ISSN 1992-1098Verify ISSN ↗2413-0958Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kamerton
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 696 / 876 | 20th | Q4 |
| Ecology | 426 / 491 | 13th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 663 / 736 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
South of Russia: Ecology, Development is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 696 of 876), Q4 in Ecology (rank 426 of 491) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 663 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
South of Russia: Ecology, Development 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.224, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$333 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.
South of Russia: Ecology, Development is published by Kamerton. Its print ISSN is 1992-1098 and its online ISSN is 2413-0958.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South of Russia: Ecology, Development has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #563 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
South of Russia: Ecology, Development published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 94. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (95.7%), Armenia (2.1%) and Kazakhstan (1.1%). 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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