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Sustainable Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2765-8511Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 211 / 725 | 70th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 91 / 249 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Sustainable Environment is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 211 of 725) and Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 91 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
Sustainable Environment 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.674, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
Sustainable Environment is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its ISSN is 2765-8511.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sustainable Environment has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 6.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Sustainable Environment published 92 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 96. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Zimbabwe (7.1%), India (5.4%) and China (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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