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Water, Air, and Soil Pollution is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0049-6979Verify ISSN ↗1573-2932Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecological Modeling | 15 / 51 | 71st | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 81 / 279 | 71st | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 81 / 241 | 66th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 71 / 180 | 60th | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 76 / 157 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution is Q2 in Ecological Modeling (rank 15 of 51), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 81 of 279) and Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 81 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.727, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 146.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0049-6979 and its online ISSN is 1573-2932.
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.
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution has an h-index of 185 and a 2-year mean of 3.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 47 Scopus journals in Ecological Modeling.
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution published 1,297 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (30.9%), India (17.5%) and Türkiye (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 13 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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