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Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.7), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2040-8021Verify ISSN ↗2040-803XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting | 5 / 191 | 97th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 9 / 235 | 96th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 39 / 345 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.7.
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal is Q1 in Accounting (rank 5 of 191), Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 9 of 235) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 39 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 15.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.808, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 68.
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2040-8021 and its online ISSN is 2040-803X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Accounting field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 8.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 183 Scopus journals in Accounting.
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal published 89 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 Italy (17.8%), China (12.1%) and United Kingdom (8.9%).
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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