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Environmental Processes

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH · Germany · Est. 2014

ISSN2198-7505

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

High Trust

PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals

Score Breakdown

◆ Scopus Q178

✓ Corroboration (2 more)+12

Total90

Level data: Norwegian Register (HK-dir), NLOD 2.0. · Third-party records · how this is calculated · Report an error →

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

202

days submission → published

measured · last 20 articles · accept 175d

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

SJR Scorei

1.033

H-Indexi

CiteScore

View ↗

Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIPi

0.964

Total Worksi

809

Total Citationsi

16,647

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.96

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Environmental Processes covers: processes related to the interactions of the water, air-atmosphere, and soil-sediment environments with the humans and the biosphere; environmental flow processes, hydrodynamics and hydrology; pollutant physical, chemical and biological processes, including pollutant sources and origin, fate, dispersion and degradation, transport, deposition and accumulation, and impacts on human health and environmental quality; interaction processes between the social, cultural, economic and natural environments; evaluation of currently applied and new proposed technologies for pollutant treatment and the protection of the environment; testing of currently used and new proposed monitoring, instrumentation and analysis techniques related to the environmental processes; educational, regulatory, and research needs on environmental processes and protection.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2014

Annual Volume~ 63 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications809

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewPeer review is conducted using Editorial Manager®

Review Time—

Acceptance Rate—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/12 · 58%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2198-7505

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

Peer review is conducted using Editorial Manager®

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

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

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.3k

2019

1.7k

2020

1.5k

2021

965

2022

2023

607

2024

333

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.

Environmental EngineeringQ1

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ1

PollutionQ1

Water Science and TechnologyQ1

Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Engineering, Environmental

Scopus Categories

Water Science and TechnologyManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawEnvironmental EngineeringPollutionHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesAdsorption and biosorption for pollutant removalFlood Risk Assessment and ManagementWater Quality and Pollution AssessmentGroundwater and Isotope GeochemistryWater resources management and optimizationHeavy metals in environmentHydrology and Drought AnalysisAdvanced oxidation water treatmentGroundwater flow and contamination studies

Frequently asked questions about Environmental Processes

Is Environmental Processes a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Environmental Processes: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Its PubScope Trust Score is 90/100. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Environmental Processes?

Environmental Processes 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 4.96.

Is Environmental Processes indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Environmental Processes is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.