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Waste and Biomass Valorization is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1877-2641Verify ISSN ↗1877-265XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 69 / 241 | 71st | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 54 / 151 | 64th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 133 / 345 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.2.
Waste and Biomass Valorization is Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 69 of 241), Q2 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 54 of 151) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 133 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Waste and Biomass Valorization 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.580, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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.
Waste and Biomass Valorization is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1877-2641 and its online ISSN is 1877-265X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Waste and Biomass Valorization has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 3.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Waste and Biomass Valorization published 594 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (23.3%), India (16.1%) and Brazil (6%).
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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