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Ethics and the Environment

Indiana University Press · United States · Est. 1999

ISSN1535-5306

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.155

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.484

Total Worksi

572

Total Citationsi

5,622

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.28

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Philosophy; Environmental Science (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1999

Annual Volume~ 10 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications572

Publisher OrgIndiana University Press

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Indiana University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1535-5306

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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

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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.

PhilosophyQ2

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Philosophy

Scopus Categories

PhilosophyEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Environmental Philosophy and EthicsReligion, Ecology, and EthicsGeographies of human-animal interactionsClimate Change and GeoengineeringHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEcocriticism and Environmental LiteratureLegal Cases and CommentaryLegal case studies and regulationsPhilosophical Ethics and Theory

Frequently asked questions about Ethics and the Environment

Is Ethics and the Environment a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Ethics and the Environment: 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 Ethics and the Environment?

Ethics and the Environment 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 0.28.

Is Ethics and the Environment indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Ethics and the Environment is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Ethics and the Environment?