The Science of The Total Environment
ISSN 0048-9697 · Elsevier BV · Netherlands · active 1902–2026
Metrics
“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. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.
Indexing & access
Access status: unknown. 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.
Scope
Frequently asked
Is The Science of The Total Environment a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag The Science of The Total Environment. 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, PubMed, which is a positive signal.
Is The Science of The Total Environment indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, The Science of The Total Environment appears in: Scopus, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is The Science of The Total Environment's impact?
Papers in The Science of The Total Environment are cited about 9.1 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 482. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
Is The Science of The Total Environment open access?
We hold no reliable open-access classification for The Science of The Total Environment. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.