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World Sustainability Series is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2199-7373Verify ISSN ↗2199-7381Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 623 / 876 | 28th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 202 / 249 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
World Sustainability Series is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 623 of 876) and Q4 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 202 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
World Sustainability Series is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
World Sustainability Series is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2199-7373 and its online ISSN is 2199-7381.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Sustainability Series has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #463 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
World Sustainability Series published 669 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 18 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (16.7%), Brazil (16.7%) and South Africa (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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