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Sustainability and Climate Change is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2692-2924Verify ISSN ↗2692-2932Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 501 / 876 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Education | 1000 / 1698 | 41st | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 307 / 432 | 29th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 253 / 345 | 26th | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 109 / 134 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Sustainability and Climate Change is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 501 of 876), Q3 in Education (rank 1000 of 1698) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 307 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Sustainability and Climate Change 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.230, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Sustainability and Climate Change is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2692-2924 and its online ISSN is 2692-2932.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sustainability and Climate Change has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #484 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Sustainability and Climate Change published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 63. 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 83 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.9%), Malaysia (9.4%) and India (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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