Why Environmental science and pollution research journal (ESPR) impact factor of 2023 is not updated or shown on Journal website. If any one knows about it then pls reply.
Dear Vasant M. Wagh
If you search for the journal with ISSN 1614-7499 here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home you see that the journal has been put on hold (see enclosed figure).
Best regards.
PS. According to the so-called early warning list (see enclosed file) this is most likely because they are (like so many other journals) the victim of a paper mill operation.
This is probably the answer:-
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/27/seventeen-journals-lose-impact-factors-for-suspected-citation-manipulation/
Environmental Science and Pollution Research is not on the list of IF. However, the problem is that ESP&R published research devoted to regional studies. Besides, a lot of papers on environmental chemistry. Other journals are not interested in publishing of such papers. That is why ESP&R is characterized by enormous number of self-citation. On other hands there are only a few journals with the same scope-so one can observe stacking citation. It means number of citation by small number of journals (less than 5).
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