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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

ISSN: 1618-8667
5 Year impact factor: 6.6
Impact factor: 6.4

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening is a refereed, international journal aimed at presenting high-quality research with urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management as its main topics. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening concentrates on all tree-dominated (as joint together in urban forests) as well as other green resources in and around urban areas, such as woodlands, public and private urban parks and gardens, urban nature areas, street tree and square plantations, botanical gardens and cemeteries, building envelop greening, etc. The journal welcomes basic and applied research papers, as well as review papers and short communications. Contributions should focus on one or more of the following aspects: Form, functions, and ecosystem services of urban forests and other vegetation, including aspects of urban environmental science and urban ecology. Policy-making, planning and design related to urban forests and other vegetation. Selection and establishment of tree resources and other vegetation for urban environments. Management of urban forests and other vegetation. The ecosystem services urban vegetation provides. Original contributions of a high academic standard are invited from a wide range of disciplines and fields, including forestry, biology, horticulture, arboriculture, landscape ecology, pathology, soil science, hydrology, landscape architecture, landscape planning, urban planning and design, environmental/ecological economics, environmental sociology, environmental psychology, public health, and education. Special attention will be given to interdisciplinary research as developed under the approaches of, for example, urban forestry, arboriculture, urban greening, urban ecology, urban health, urban agriculture, urban horticulture, urban silviculture, and community forestry.

Urban Governance

ISSN: 2664-3286

The official journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityThe Article Publishing Charge (APC) fee will be covered by Shanghai Jiao Tong University for articles submitted by 31st December 2025. Urban Governance seeks to advance knowledge of how to make cities more liveable, inclusive, and sustainable. We aim to provide a forum to address some of the most challenging issues facing cities and governance worldwide, to inspire academic research and debates, and to share knowledge, experience, and critiques on urban governance. Contributors to and the readership of Urban Governance include academics, practitioners, and policy makers. We welcome rigorous studies that develop new theoretical and empirical insights on and/or innovative method for the research and practice in urban governance, especially those contributing new theories and solutions from public administration perspective. Topics covered include: urban governance; urban studies; urban theory; urban policy; urban politics; urban economic development; urban development and planning; urban infrastructure; urban adaptation; urban regeneration; urban sustainability governance; local governance; government; local government; public administration; government budget; public policy; civil services; civil society; public-private sector cooperation; citizen participation; regional collaboration; community development; livability and quality of life; housing; community; greening; neighborhood conservation; immigration and labor migration; healthy city; friendly city; social and cultural dynamics; social innovation; smart cities ;technological innovation; digital technology ARTICLE TYPES: Research Articles Research articles should be 7000-9000 words long, although submissions longer than 9000 words might be accepted on an occasional basis, if the topic demands this length of treatment. The submitted papers should make clear how they present broader impacts and significance theoretically, methodologically, practically and/or globally, for the governance of urban affairs. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary manuscripts with diverse methodological orientations, though we value research with high reliability, validity, and generalizability. Practice Articles Practice articles are expected to share practices in urban governance around the world and demonstrate innovative solutions adopted and developed in specific local contexts with strong potential for cross-jurisdictional learning. The length of the articles should be 3000-5000 words. Viewpoints Urban Governance also welcomes practitioners and policy makers to submit comments or make one argument on specific topics based on their experience in urban governance. The length of viewpoints should be shorter than 3000 words generally. All submissions are reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers with the identities of the authors concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. Urban Governance's editors will make the final decision on a publication. All new submissions should not be under review, in process or published by another other journal or in another form of publication. Publishers or authors who wish to republish or translate the published articles in Urban Governance should contact the editors directly. Submission should be done via online Editorial Manager at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ugj Papers will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Accepted papers will be published online after it is formally accepted by the journal, and assigned a volume number later. For detailed style guideline, please refer to the "Guide for Authors".

Weather and Climate Extremes

ISSN: 2212-0947
5 Year impact factor: 8.6
Impact factor: 8

Weather and Climate Extremes provides academics, decision makers, international development agencies, nongovernmental organizations and civil society with publications on different aspects of research in weather and climate extremes, monitoring and early warning systems, assessment of vulnerability and impacts, developing and implementing intervention policies, effective risk management and adaptation practices to address local and regional needs and circumstances, engagement of local communities in the adoption of these practices to cope with extremes, and information and communication strategies. The journal encourages the submission of original research papers, comprehensive review articles, and short communications which address the following: Weather and Climate Extremes •Types of extremes •Quality and quantity of data and data analysis •Frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme events •Observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes Research Approaches •Atmospheric science (processes and modeling) •Short- and medium-range forecasts of weather extremes •Seasonal forecasts of climate extremes •Monitoring and early warning systems •Modelling impacts of weather and climate extremes •Statistical aspects of extremes Vulnerability and Impacts of Weather and Climate Extremes •Natural physical environment •Human systems eg., coastal settlements, mountain settlements, urbanization etc., •Ecosystems •Temporal and spatial dynamics of exposure and vulnerability •Observed and projected impacts in different socio-economic sectors Managing Weather and Climate Extremes •Traditional knowledge •Preparedness planning •Risk Management •Information and communication strategies •Policies and practices for adaptation to weather and climate extremes •Resilience to adverse impacts of extremes •Issues and opportunities at the local, national and international levels •Technological innovations and improved practices •Reducing societal vulnerability to weather and climate extremes •Case Studies The journal manager can be reached at WACE at elsevier.com.

Wellbeing, Space and Society

ISSN: 2666-5581

Wellbeing, Space & Society is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with the role that space and place play in shaping wellbeing across the range of spatial scales from the local to the global. Wellbeing, Space & Society shares the same general approach to manuscripts as its companion titles, Health & Place and Social Science & Medicine. We publish papers from a range of social science disciplines, including geography, sociology, social psychology, social epidemiology, economics, anthropology and political science. We encourage your submissions that address a problem of interest to society and illustrate the links (potential or theorized) between (aspects of) society and space and wellbeing. We are particularly interested in: the policy implications of the research, including work informed by policy analysis the wellbeing of places - how is that conceptualized, theorized, operationalised and translated? the transactive nature of wellbeing along with the constitutive (or emergent) processes across the scales from the individual through the household to community, etc. that shape wellbeing Key themes for the journal include inequalities across space that have been shaped by societal forces; inequities across social categories (gender, age, race, etc) that are spatially expressed; the shaping of wellbeing in places (a range of socio-political and/or cultural contexts such as indigenous communities or alternative forms of nation states) across a range of spatial scales from the individual to the household to the community to the region to the nation and up to the global context; and the socio-spatial implications of policy interventions at the national (e.g. welfare, taxation) or local (e.g. urban infrastructure, community resources, green spaces). Types of papers accepted by the journal include research articles (both empirical and theoretical), reviews and short communications. We also welcome your proposals for special issues on topics that represent an unusual, even unique area that is likely to be of high interest to the journal's readership. The journal welcomes submissions from a range of ontological and epistemological approaches and is particularly keen to receive work that demonstrates theoretical and/or methodological innovation. Methodological plurality and innovation are encouraged; interpretation of wellbeing in this context may be subjective or objective, eudonic or hedonic, and may also be at the individual and/or community levels. We look forward to receiving your submissions that are thought-provoking, informative, innovative, illustrative, dialogue-worthy pieces that seek to understand, question, and identify approaches to enhancing wellbeing.

Women's Studies International Forum

ISSN: 0277-5395
5 Year impact factor: 1.9
Impact factor: 1.4

Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate. The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives. We seek contributions from people, individually or collectively, from different countries and different backgrounds, who are engaged in feminist research inside or outside formal educational institutions. We welcome a variety of approaches and resources through the whole range of disciplines: papers geared toward action-oriented research as well as those which address theoretical methodological issues; and we encourage historical reassessments of the lives and works of women. We urge all contributors both to acknowledge the cultural and social specifics of their particular approach, and to draw out these issues in their articles. We also invite conference reports and announcements, calls for papers, notices of new publications and reports, contacts, etc., sent in by individuals or groups in the international feminist community.

World Development

ISSN: 0305-750X
5 Year impact factor: 7.3
Impact factor: 6.9

The Multi-Disciplinary International Journal Devoted to the Study and Promotion of World Development World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living, and the human condition generally, by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life.Contributions offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies. World Development recognizes 'development' as a process of change involving nations, economies, political alliances, institutions, groups, and individuals. Development processes occur in different ways and at all levels: inside the family, the firm and the farm; locally, provincially, nationally, and globally. Our goal is to learn from one another, regardless of nation, culture, income, academic discipline, profession or ideology. We hope to set a modest example of enduring global cooperation through maintaining an international dialogue and dismantling barriers to communication.Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center Authors are also welcome to submit to the journal?s companion title, World Development Perspectives.

World Development Perspectives

ISSN: 2452-2929
Impact factor: 1.9

The multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the study and promotion of international development World Development Perspectives is a multi-disciplinary journal of international development and a companion title to the respected World Development. It seeks to explore ways of improving human well-being by examining the performance and impact of interventions designed to address issues related to: poverty alleviation, public health and malnutrition, agricultural production, natural resource governance, globalization and transnational processes, technological progress, gender and social discrimination, and participation in economic and political life. Above all, we are particularly interested in the role of historical, legal, social, economic, political, biophysical, and/or ecological contexts in shaping development processes and outcomes. We welcome contributions that offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies. World Development Perspectives recognizes 'development' as a process of change at and across multiple scales, involving a diverse range of actors at each scale. Keeping in mind this diversity, our objective is to build a rigorous understanding of the interactions between the relevant contextual factors and specific development interventions in explaining development outcomes. We aspire to create a forum that brings together development researchers, practitioners, and administrators from all domains, disciplines, and geographies.

World Development Sustainability

ISSN: 2772-655X

World Development Sustainability is a multi-disciplinary, gold open access social sciences journal focusing on sustainable development. It is a companion title to the prestigious World Development, its distinct focus is on publishing novel and cutting-edge research on sustainability, especially economic development, social development, natural resources, and the environment. It covers the theory, practice, policy solutions and the latest research trends on sustainable development. World Development Sustainability encompasses a comprehensive range of research fields and disciplinary perspectives focusing on social sciences and environmental science. World Development Sustainability aims to publish articles that will deepen understanding of mechanisms for ensuring the sustainability of human beings; track and/or measure progress on the achievement of global objectives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); explore sustainable ways of improving the standards of common living and the welfare effect of common goods; encourage theoretical and empirical research on social and environmental sciences focusing on sustainability; promote scientific governance and impact assessments of global sustainable development by examining problems such as: poverty, failure of environmental public goods, hunger, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, tragedy of the commons, sustainable resources, mediocre scientific and technological resources, gender and ethnic discrimination, and lack of popular participation in economic and green life.

World Patent Information

ISSN: 0172-2190
5 Year impact factor: 2.4
Impact factor: 2.7

The journal for intellectual property information and its retrieval, documentation, classification, search, analysis and IP management World Patent Information aims to encompass the world of IP information; and focus the journal towards IPRs for industrially applicable innovations; and their management, analysis; big data analysis; policy; education. IPRs - patents, utility models; copyright, trademarks, registered design; design rights; trade secrets; database rights; traditional knowledge; indigenous knowledge; geographical indications may all be considered. World Patent Information publishes articles regarding best practice in legal and commercial patent search and analysis; articles which focus on particular types of search such as freedom to operate, FTO, clearance, state of the art, invalidity, validity, prior art, technical, landscaping, scouting, forecasting, patentability, decision searching, competitive intelligence using patent information. We are also interested in articles researching into meta data relating to IPRs such as legal status data for IPR; classifications and bibliographic data. We are interested in IP documentation, search, documentation, classification and IP information news from IP Offices. Always welcome are reviews of state of the art in a particular industry, reviews of patent, and other IP and scientific and technical databases, search and analysis for IP purposes. Research and review articles on information related to non- patent IPRs , trademarks, trade names, brands, designs, copyright, trade secrets, traditional knowledge, semiconductor rights, database rights, where these have impact for the technological innovation space. Best practice search and review articles, on sources of data. IP management information issues, inventions harvesting, IP services and intermediates and use of text mining and data mining for IP interests. Information retrieval (IR) relating to all aspects of IP published information not only text but also document specific, e.g. bibliographic, name, geographic; multi-lingual search, image search, tables, other non-text; text mining, Natural Language Processing (NLP); Information Extraction from patents e.g. – mathematical formulae, chemical, biological, plant, related data; Machine Translation, Machine learning, automated intelligence focused towards improving IP search and analysis; System Evaluation and Benchmarking, Data collections for IR experiments; Best practice for IP; IP management of Patents, Trademarks,. designs, know-how, copyright, trade secrets; organization of IP tasks in companies and research institutions; Innovation management -impact of patent and IP management; information management for IP best practice, TRIZ and its implementation for innovation processes; Technology management –characteristics and dynamics of technologies in IP perspective, IP portfolio benchmarking, valuation, geographic, expiries, technological, Advanced analysis –market, corporate, policy level, statistical analysis, Business methods patenting, Standards - standard essential patents – patent pools.

iLIVER

ISSN: 2772-9478

iLIVER is an open access English journal in the field of hepatology, hosted by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and Tsinghua University, published by Tsinghua University Press, and distributed globally by Elsevier. iLIVER aims to present and disseminate the innovations and practical achievements in the field of hepatology, and to provide core academic resources for multidisciplinary physicians, experts and scholars engaged in the basic, preventive, clinical, translational science and medical interdisciplinary research of the hepatobiliary system. iLIVER publishes Original article, Meta-analysis, Review, Consensus and Practice Guideline, Editorial, Correspondence, Short communication, Commentary concerning clinical medicine, translational medicine, basic medicine and public health in the field of hepatobiliary system. The scope includes but is not limited to the following aspects: Studies on the structure, function and regulation mechanism of liver; Basic studies on hepatobiliary diseases, including etiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology and prevention strategies; Prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and chronic disease management of hepatobiliary diseases; Studies on public health related to epidemiology, prevention, monitoring and health policy of hepatobiliary diseases; Translational science related to liver health; Application of data and intelligent technology in the field of hepatology; Clinical drug trials and medical device clinical trials related to hepatobiliary diseases; Interdisciplinary research focusing on hepatology.