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Global Environmental Change

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom

ISSN0959-3780eISSN1872-9495

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

3.283

H-Indexi

294

SNIPi

2.997

Total Worksi

3,301

Total Citationsi

406,086

2yr Mean Citednessi

7.11

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Global Environmental Change publishes research on the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. It interprets environmental change as outcomes of processes manifest in specific localities, with consequences across multiple spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales. The journal aims to foster research in climate change, natural resource economics, sustainability, corporate governance, and politics, particularly articles with a significant social science component.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive

Total Publications3,301

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Publishing ModelHybrid

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

⚡ Hybrid journal — subscription model available.

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0959-3780 / 1872-9495

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

128

13k

2019

139

12k

2020

185

12k

2021

138

6.7k

2022

120

4.2k

2023

120

2024

105

689

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

EcologyQ1

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ1

Global and Planetary ChangeQ1

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental SciencesEnvironmental StudiesGeography

Scopus Categories

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawGeography, Planning and DevelopmentGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sustainability and Climate Change GovernanceConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementClimate Change Policy and EconomicsClimate Change Communication and PerceptionClimate change impacts on agriculture

Frequently asked questions about Global Environmental Change

Is Global Environmental Change a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Global Environmental Change: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Global Environmental Change?

Global Environmental Change is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 7.11.

Is Global Environmental Change indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Global Environmental Change is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.