Journals in Global change

Advances in Climate Change Research

ISSN: 1674-9278
5 Year impact factor: 6.9
Impact factor: 6.4

Advances in Climate Change Research publishes scientific research and analyses on climate change and the interactions of climate change with society. This journal encompasses basic science and economic, social, and policy research, including studies on mitigation and adaptation to climate change.This journal attempts to promote research in climate change and provide an impetus for the application of research achievements in numerous aspects, such as socioeconomic sustainable development, responses to the adaptation and mitigation of climate change, diplomatic negotiations of climate and environment policies, and the protection and exploitation of natural resources. This journal also aims to make complex, policy-related analyses of climate change issues accessible to a wide audience.Articles may focus on a broad range of topics at the interface of climate change and society, including policy and socioeconomic impacts of climate change. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this journal, studies that involve natural scientists, social scientists, and policy managers are particularly encouraged.Examples of appropriate topical areas that will be considered include the following:Changes in climate systemsImpacts of climate changeMitigation of climate changeAdaptation to climate changeGreenhouse gas emissionsGlobal climate governance Editorial Board

Advances in Space Research

ISSN: 0273-1177
5 Year impact factor: 2.6
Impact factor: 2.8

The Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), an interdisciplinary scientific committee of the International Science Council (ISC).The COSPAR publication Advances in Space Research (ASR) is an open journal covering all areas of space research including: space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology, climate, the Earth-Moon system, planets and small bodies of the solar system, upper atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth and planets including reference atmospheres, space plasmas in the solar system, astrophysics from space, materials sciences in space, fundamental physics in space, space debris, space weather, Earth observations of space phenomena, etc.NB: Please note that manuscripts related to life sciences as related to space are no more accepted for submission to Advances in Space Research. Such manuscripts should now be submitted to the new COSPAR Journal Life Sciences in Space Research (LSSR).All submissions are reviewed by two scientists in the field. COSPAR is an interdisciplinary scientific organization concerned with the progress of space research on an international scale. Operating under the rules of ICSU, COSPAR ignores political considerations and considers all questions solely from the scientific viewpoint.

Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia

ISSN: 2210-7843

Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia is not accepting new publication proposals. For more information on above and questions related to Procedia, contact us: Neelima Dondapati ([email protected])

Chemosphere - Global Change Science

ISSN: 1465-9972

AIMS AND SCOPEChemosphere: Global Change Science is a forum for the publication of peer-reviewed papers dealing with changes in the Earth's environment on the global scale. Global Change Science today includes diverse issues such as global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, deforestation, desertification, sea level rise, increases in storms, El-Nino events, changes in precipitation patterns, regional flooding of populated areas and the consequences of these phenomena on human life. Many, if not all, of these phenomena are linked together. Global Change Science includes the application of physics, chemistry, biology, economics and the social sciences to the assessment of how natural and human influences affect the global environment and ultimately, human life. It is our hope that in time, this journal will define global change science as a new scientific discipline. The scope of the journal includes the following areas:•Documenting the changing atmospheric composition by delineating the budgets and trends of atmospheric trace gases, focusing on those that are critically involved in global warming, ozone depletion and other global and regional environmental issues. •Developing estimates of emissions and chemical formation for environmentally important constituents including both gases and aerosols, at high spatial and temporal resolutions. •Evaluating the fluxes and exchange mechanisms of key chemical constituents across environmental interfaces such as between the atmosphere and the oceans, soils and the biota. •Climate modeling and the evaluation of the performance of such models compared with observations. •Modeling tropospheric, stratospheric and oceanic chemical and transport processes. •Evaluating the effects of global climate change on human life including, agriculture, extreme weather events, and health. •Developing integrated models for controlling country-wide, regional or global emissions of environmentally important constituents including economic impact analyses. •Integrating environmental science with public policy or new technologies.Authors whose work does not fit in one of these categories are encouraged to write to the Editor to check if their research is consistent with the broader scope of the journal.Four classes of papers will be considered for publicationoriginal research papers, review papers, short communications and commentary.The focus of the journal is on original research papers, but the journal is most open to new ideas in the field that will be published as short communications. The review and publication process for short communications will be accelerated. Readers who take issue with published papers may write short articles summarizing their concerns. These will be published together with a response from the authors of the original paper. Commentary articles will be limited to the same length requirements imposed on short communications. The journal will also publish topical review papers from two sources. Each year a few review papers will be commissioned by the editor and the editorial board. Additional review papers suggested by the readers of the journal will be considered. Details for all categories of articles are provided in the instructions to authors.

Climate Change Ecology

ISSN: 2666-9005

The journal Climate Change Ecology is an Open Access journal for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecological research looking at ecosystem adaptations or responses to anthropogenic climate change. Increasingly climate research is focused on the complexity of processes and responses across trophic webs and networks, highlighting how individual species' response to climate change effects its ecological system. As modeling has grown increasingly sophisticated, data from multiple actors in ecological networks leads to a fuller picture of the nonlinear dynamics of ecosystem processes and also to a clearer understanding of predictive challenges.The scope of the journal will include issues like range shifts/invasions, novel ecological communities, ecophysiology (drought, wildfires, etc) and phenology (migration, reproduction, and asynchronicity), and a wide range of methodological approaches to describing spatial and temporal complexity will be encouraged. Climate Change Ecology will promote a holistic view of understanding ecological responses to a rapidly changing world.Paper Types will include Research Articles, Review Articles, Perspectives, Case Studies/Short Communications, and Policy Analysis.

Climate Policy

ISSN: 1469-3062

As of 2004, transferred to James & James Ltd.AIMS AND SCOPEClimate Policy aims to address the broad spectrum of policy issues raised by the prospect of changes in the global climate, and by the need for mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change. It seeks to provide a forum for the communication of research, analysis, review and discussion concerning any issue related to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the negotiation of associated policy instruments. The primary aims of the journal are to make complex, policy-related analysis of climate change issues accessible to a wide policy audience and to facilitate debate between the diverse constituencies now involved in the development of climate policy.Topics might include (but are not exclusive to): • Design of the Kyoto mechanisms • Applications of integrated assessment to specific policy issues • Policy and quantitative aspects of land-use and forestry in the Kyoto mechanisms • Analysis of implementation policies in different countries • Socio-political analysis of prospects for the UNFCCC regime and the Kyoto Protocol • Economic and political aspects of developing country action and involvement • Social studies of climate change, including public perception, where policy implications are derived

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

ISSN: 1877-3435
5 Year impact factor: 8.7
Impact factor: 6.6

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST) builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating high quality reproducible research. Established in 2010 as part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals, COSUST focuses on peer reviewed polished, concise and timely short reviews of recent literature and synthesis of emerging topics, innovations and perspectives. Since 2019, COSUST has a new companion Gold Open Access journal, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, which focuses on empirically-based research articles. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy - of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach - to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.Expertise - Editors and Editorial Board bring depth and breadth of expertise and experience to the journal.Discoverability - Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading scientific publishing platform that reaches a vast global audience.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to define the new innovative sustainability science discipline by integrating perspectives from the natural and the social sciences on human-environment interactions and management challenges across regional and global systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability thus emphasizes interdisciplinary sustainability research approaches, the solutions it provides and their dissemination and application.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multi-faceted debate, synthesis and exchange of ideas. Additionally, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability will continue to publish papers on strategic research plans and key findings of leading global-change research networks, it thus serves as an invaluable source of current peer-reviewed and synthesized information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, practitioners, policy makers and students.Most of the issues published by the journal are invited Special Issues addressing current themes around major global-change systems and problems, the emerging new transdisciplinary sustainability science, sustainability governance and transformation, environmental change assessments, international initiatives, as well as more philosophical reflection on approaches to sustainability challenges. Once a year, we publish an Open Issue, which offers an opportunity for authors working on diverse topics to submit an abstract for consideration. In collaboration with the International Science Council (ISC), COSUST also includes a section dedicated to the 'State of Knowledge on Social Transformations to Sustainability', which consist of original or existing peer-reviewed papers, reviewing knowledge on various dimensions of social transformations to sustainability and drawing out implications for research, practice or policy (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-opinion-in-environmental-sustainability/news/introducing-the-state-of-knowledge-on-social-transformations).Selection of Special Issues and Guest Editors: We welcome proposals for Special Issues consisting of (1) an overview of the theme, and a motivation why it is timely and innovative, and justifies publication in the journal; (2) a list of proposed topics and names of selected authors. As the journal is international, we aim to commission a mixture of nationalities and disciplines with consideration to gender and regions less covered, but obviously the quality of authors and their review is paramount. Proposals that where possible have the first and second choices of authors (with contact details where possible); (3) a short, two-line, description of the intended scope of each review.Working with the Editors of the journal, Guest Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are responsible for inviting authors, reviewing and organizing themes within a special issue.Please contact your Editorial Manager by email if you have any questions, Ms. Alison Langestraat [email protected] articles: Authors write short review and/or synthesis articles supported by recent literature in which they present recent developments in their subject and emerging topics, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.

Current Research in Environmental Sustainability

ISSN: 2666-0490
5 Year impact factor: 4.3
Impact factor: 3.7

We are proud to introduce Current Research in Environmental Sustainability (CRSUST), a new primary research journal from Elsevier. CRSUST publishes original papers and short communications that cover all aspects of environmental sustainability.Current Research in Environmental Sustainability is a gold open access (OA) journal, which means articles are permanently and freely available. It is a companion to the highly regarded review journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST) and is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy-of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach-to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.Current Research in Environmental Sustainability publishes new, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on environmental sustainability. This includes focus on a broad range of topics from; the science of complex, self-organizing and adaptive systems to the sustainable management of natural resource systems (for example agriculture, water, biophysical habitats, soils, and climate) to the social conditions and relationships that support and maintain functioning ecosystems and enable human wellbeing. Environmental sustainability thus means understanding, maintaining, and regenerating natural capital, while achieving social and economic goals and values.Environmental sustainability occupies an increasingly important position on the corporate, NGO, and governmental and community agendas worldwide, we therefore request articles that are technically precise but written in a style that is accessible to informed, interested lay readers from diverse backgrounds. This focus on accessible arguments advances interdisciplinarity and explicitly allows for a flexible integration of natural sciences with the social sciences, humanities, and engineering disciplines and supports the evolving UN's sustainable development goals, enabling clear methodological, quantitative, and systemic reflections.Current Research in Environmental Sustainability builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health. • Expertise - Editors and Editorial Board bring depth and breadth of expertise and experience to the journal. • Speed - Submission and peer review is fast, and publication of final manuscripts is instantaneous. • Discoverability - Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading platform that reaches a vast global audience.

Ecological Economics

ISSN: 0921-8009
5 Year impact factor: 6.9
Impact factor: 6.6

The Transdisciplinary Journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)The journal is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature's household" (ecosystems) and "humanity's household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership.Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.Ecological Economics Sections All submissions to Ecological Economics are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, creativity, originality, accuracy, and contribution to the field. There are several categories of articles to allow for a full range of constructive dialogue.News and Views Topical and timely short pieces reviewed by the editor and/or one outside reviewer at the editor's discretion. May include editorials, letters to the editor, news items, and policy discussions. Maximum 1500 words (600 words for letters).Commentary Essays discussing critical issues. Reviewed by two outside reviewers with the criteria weighted toward quality of the exposition and importance of the issue. Maximum 5000 words.Surveys Examination and review of important general subject areas. Reviewed by two outside reviewers with the criteria weighted toward importance of the subject and clarity of exposition. Maximum 8000 words.Methodological and Ideological Options Research articles devoted to developing new methodologies or investigating the implications of various ideological assumptions. Reviewed by two outside reviewers with criteria weighted toward originality and potential usefulness of the methodology or ideological option. Maximum 8000 words.Analysis Research articles devoted to analysis of important questions in the field. Reviewed by two outside reviewers with the criteria weighted toward originality, quality, and accuracy of the analysis, andimportance of the question. Maximum 8000 words.Book Reviews Reviews of recent books in the field. Reviewed by one outside reviewer with criteria weighted toward clarity and accuracy of the review, and importance of the book to the field. Maximum 1200 words.

Environmental Challenges

ISSN: 2667-0100

The Environmental Challenges, a companion journal of Journal of Environmental Management, is an international, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing research and understanding in various fields of environmental management and environmental science. The primary aim of this journal is to provide a platform for the publication of original research findings, review articles, and discussions, encompassing diverse aspects of environmental engineering, management, policies, and stakeholder engagement on a global scale. This aligns with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring that research contributes to a sustainable and equitable future for all.The journal's focus areas include, but are not limited to:Fresh Water Management (SDG 6): Addressing the challenges of water scarcity, access to clean water, and sustainable water resource management.Infrastructure Resilience (SDG 9): Investigating the maintenance and development of infrastructure systems, with an emphasis on sustainability and adaptation to environmental changes.Sustainable Energy Solutions (SDG 7): Exploring innovations and strategies for meeting energy demands while reducing environmental impact.Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (SDG 13): Investigating strategies to combat global warming and adapt to its effects.Environmental Security (SDG 2, 6, 7): Studying the security of essential resources such as food, water, and air to ensure global sustainability.Waste Management (SDG 12): Addressing issues related to waste management, including plastics and e-waste.Sustainable Food Production (SDG 2): Examining sustainable methods for food production and supply to address global food security.Environmental Quality and Public Health (SDG 3): Investigating the relationship between the environment and public health.Urban Sustainability and Livability (SDG 11): Exploring urban development, its impact on the environment, and the quality of life in cities.Land Use and Conservation (SDG 15): Investigating land use changes and conservation efforts to protect ecosystems and biodiversity.Ocean Health and Conservation (SDG 14): Addressing ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, and coastal hazards.Ecosystem Services (SDG 15): Studying the provision and management of ecosystem services and their role in sustainability.All submissions should exhibit a high level of novelty, originality, and uniqueness, and contribute to the global efforts aimed at achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

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