Environmental Earth Sciences

ISSN 1866-6280 · Springer Science+Business Media · Germany · active 1974–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
4.2
SJR
0.696
h-index
150

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 18 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Environmental Earth Sciences is Q1 in 1 of its 7 subject categories, Q2 in 5 and Q3 in 1. Its best category quartile is Q1.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Environmental Earth Sciences in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
GeologyQ1#79 of 334
Earth-Surface ProcessesQ2#50 of 184
Soil ScienceQ2#51 of 168
PollutionQ2#66 of 178
Environmental ChemistryQ2#75 of 157
Water Science and TechnologyQ2#85 of 289
Global and Planetary ChangeQ3#72 of 126
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
3.56
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
690

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Environmental Earth Sciences is Q1 in 1 of its 7 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Geology: Q1, #79 of 334), with SJR 0.696 (Scimago) and an h-index of 150 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Responding time

Submission to acceptance
192 days (median)
Estimated from our library (25 papers)

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

Indexed in
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

groundwaterisotopegeochemistrypetrologylandslideshazardsmanagementmonitoringpolicylawflowcontamination

Frequently asked

Is Environmental Earth Sciences a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Environmental Earth Sciences. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Environmental Earth Sciences indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Environmental Earth Sciences appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Environmental Earth Sciences?

Papers in Environmental Earth Sciences are cited about 4.2 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 150. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Environmental Earth Sciences (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Environmental Earth Sciences is Q1 in 1 of its 7 subject categories, Q2 in 5 and Q3 in 1. By category: Geology: Q1, #79 of 334; Earth-Surface Processes: Q2, #50 of 184; Soil Science: Q2, #51 of 168; Pollution: Q2, #66 of 178; Environmental Chemistry: Q2, #75 of 157; Water Science and Technology: Q2, #85 of 289; Global and Planetary Change: Q3, #72 of 126. Its best category quartile is Q1. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Environmental Earth Sciences is cited about 4.2 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 150.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Environmental Earth Sciences?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Environmental Earth Sciences. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Geology, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Environmental Earth Sciences open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

How long does Environmental Earth Sciences take to publish a paper?

Submission to acceptance for Environmental Earth Sciences takes about 192 days (median) — Estimated from our library (n=25 papers). Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Environmental Earth Sciences.

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