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Southern African Journal of Environmental Education is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), formerly ABDC C, DOAJ. Published by EEASA, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Department of Education, Rhodes University.
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ISSN 0256-7504Verify ISSN ↗2411-5959Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: EEASA, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Department of Education, Rhodes University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1207 / 1698 | 28th | Q3 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 144 / 194 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education is Q3 in Education (rank 1207 of 1698) and Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 144 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 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, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.168, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education is published by EEASA, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Department of Education, Rhodes University. Its print ISSN is 0256-7504 and its online ISSN is 2411-5959.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,464 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education published 48 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (45.3%), United Kingdom (10.6%) and India (8.2%).
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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