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Sustainable Environment Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2468-2039Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 22 / 279 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 31 / 241 | 87th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 29 / 180 | 84th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 27 / 151 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 69 / 345 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.9.
Sustainable Environment Research is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 22 of 279), Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 31 of 241) and Q1 in Pollution (rank 29 of 180), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Sustainable Environment Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 10.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.935, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Sustainable Environment Research is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2468-2039.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sustainable Environment Research has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 5.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Sustainable Environment Research published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 51. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Taiwan (32.8%), China (13.6%) and India (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.5 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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