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Sustainability in Debate is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), DOAJ. Published by Universidade de Brasilia.
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ISSN 2177-7675Verify ISSN ↗2179-9067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade de Brasilia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 642 / 876 | 26th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 245 / 307 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Sustainability in Debate is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 642 of 876) and Q4 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 245 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Sustainability in Debate 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, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.184, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Sustainability in Debate is published by Universidade de Brasilia. Its print ISSN is 2177-7675 and its online ISSN is 2179-9067.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sustainability in Debate has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #615 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Sustainability in Debate published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (79%), Peru (2.4%) and Ecuador (2.1%). 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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