Environment Systems and Decisions

Aims & Scope

Emerging challenges to infrastructure systems, industry, government, and society exhibit complexity, interconnectedness, uncertainties, and a variety of stakeholder perspectives.

The Springer journal Environment, Systems & Decisions addresses diverse interests and perspectives of infrastructure owners, engineers, environmental professionals, regulators, policy makers, scholars, educators, and managers through technical articles, editorials, and review articles.

The journal advances theory, methodology, and applications to address these challenges from a systems view, emphasizing connectedness of humans, machines, and the environment.

Methods that arise in the physical, social, and information sciences and engineering are integrated or coordinated.

Submitted manuscripts should address interrelated social, technological, environmental, and economic systems with attention to performance, risk, costs, sustainability, and resilience.

The ESD journal thus provides a catalyst for research and innovation in cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary methods, featuring decision analysis, systems engineering, risk assessment and risk management, resilience analysis, policy analysis, data science, and communication.

Manuscripts in a variety of application domains (engineering, military, environment, ecology, health, regulation, policy, technologies, logistics, manufacturing, etc.) are invited, particularly to feature problems and solutions that cross domains and envision future systems and processes.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9842

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	509

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.590

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	61

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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, 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.

• Trends and applications of resilience analytics in supply chain modeling: systematic literature review in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

  Citation: 386

  Authors: Maureen S., Laura H., Igor

• Resilience metrics for cyber systems

  Citation: 239

  Authors: Igor, Daniel A., Kenton, Thomas P., Julia, Alex

• A review of the potential effects of suspended sediment on fishes: potential dredging-related physiological, behavioral, and transgenerational implications

  Citation: 203

  Authors: Michael E., Christa M., Todd M., David L.

• Bouncing forward: a resilience approach to dealing with COVID-19 and future systemic shocks

  Citation: 199

  Authors: William, Benjamin, Patrick, Igor

• Trends and applications of multi-criteria decision analysis in environmental sciences: literature review

  Citation: 161

  Authors: Jeffrey C., Ashley M., Jeffrey M., Igor

• Relationship between economic growth, renewable energy use, technological innovation, and carbon emission toward achieving Malaysia’s Paris agreement

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Asif, Rawshan Ara, Mohd Nizam Mohd, Joy Jacqueline

• Contributions of green infrastructure to enhancing urban resilience

  Citation: 137

  Authors: Chad, Sarah, Laura, Adriana, Andrea K., Yolandi, Aimee, Giles

• Energy use, blue water footprint, and greenhouse gas emissions for current food consumption patterns and dietary recommendations in the US

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Michelle S., Paul S., Chris T.

• The theory of graceful extensibility: basic rules that govern adaptive systems

  Citation: 121

  Authors: David D.

• Value of information analysis: the state of application

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Jeffrey M., Zachary A., Eric, Nina, Igor

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