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Sustainable Production and Consumption is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.1), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2352-5509Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,770 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 14 / 425 | 96th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 6 / 157 | 96th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 9 / 241 | 96th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 24 / 345 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.1.
Sustainable Production and Consumption is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 14 of 425), Q1 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 6 of 157) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 9 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sustainable Production and Consumption is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 21.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.359, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 116.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,770 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 Production and Consumption is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2352-5509.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sustainable Production and Consumption has an h-index of 136 and a 2-year mean of 12.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Sustainable Production and Consumption published 240 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 380. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29.7%), United Kingdom (6%) and United States (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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