Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Aims & Scope

Capitalism Nature Socialism ( CNS ) is an international, multi-disciplinary journal of ecosocialism, encompassing anticapitalist perspectives that are both egalitarian and environmental in orientation.

The primary aim in CNS is to help create a red-green intellectual culture, essential to the development of a red-green politics.

CNS serves as an outlet for those striving to connect/explain ecological and social issues through egalitarian anticapitalist approaches.

We welcome submissions on themes like red-green politics, science/technology and relations of domination, technical/practicable solutions enabling ecosocialist alternatives, environmental movements/politics, political ecology, environmental history, environmental justice/conflicts, workplace and prison struggles, land/community/decolonisation struggles, political economy of environment, postcapitalist egalitarian futures.

Works can be empirical and/or theoretical in orientation and expressed in a variety of ways, including standard scientific writing, poetry, and reviews of productions in any medium.

We are especially interested in the work of younger authors and authors from underrepresented social groups and geographical areas.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.600

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	43

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9663

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	194

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism

  Citation: 415

  Authors: Laura

• Capitalism, nature, socialism a theoretical introduction∗

  Citation: 396

  Authors: James

• Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation

  Citation: 374

  Authors: Bram, Sian, Katja, Jim, Dan

• The city as a hybrid: On nature, society and cyborg urbanization

  Citation: 335

  Authors: Erik

• Dispossessing H₂O: the contested terrain of water privatization

  Citation: 229

  Authors: Erik

• The neoliberalization of nature: Governance, privatization, enclosure and valuation

  Citation: 198

  Authors: Nik, Paul

• Climate fraud and carbon colonialism: the new trade in greenhouse gases

  Citation: 197

  Authors: Heidi

• Thinking with Flint: Racial Liberalism and the Roots of an American Water Tragedy

  Citation: 181

  Authors: Malini

• Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements

  Citation: 176

  Authors: Joan

• “Value Grabbing”: A Political Ecology of Rent

  Citation: 171

  Authors: Diego, Melissa, Jonah, Erik

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