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Waste Management Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2949-7507Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecological Modeling | 5 / 51 | 91st | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 42 / 307 | 86th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 35 / 151 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Waste Management Bulletin is Q1 in Ecological Modeling (rank 5 of 51), Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 42 of 307) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 35 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Waste Management Bulletin 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.372, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,050 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 Management Bulletin is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2949-7507.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Waste Management Bulletin has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 10.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 47 Scopus journals in Ecological Modeling.
Waste Management Bulletin published 108 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 113. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Bangladesh (11.3%), Indonesia (8.3%) and Thailand (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.7 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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