Aims & Scope
Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices.
It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences.
Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world.
Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review.
Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action.
Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors.
The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers.
All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal's aims and scope.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
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| 2025 | 5.3 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 1.272 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 59 |
Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 3202 |
Journal Citation Indicator
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 1694 |
Impact Factor Trend
Abstracting & Indexing
Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.
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.
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.
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Environmental sciences, sustainable development and circular economy: Alternative concepts for trans-disciplinary research
Citation: 792
Authors: Sébastien, Sophie, Pamela
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Third Pole Environment (TPE)
Citation: 782
Authors: Tandong, Lonnie G., Volker, Fan, Yaoming, Tianxiang, Baiqing, Xiaoxin, Daniel R., Weicai, Meri E., Lochan P., Shresth, Rahmatullah, Radjabovich
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The role of biomass and bioenergy in a future bioeconomy: Policies and facts
Citation: 719
Authors: Nicolae, Jean-François, Fabio, Viorel
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Impact of land use change on ecosystem services: A review
Citation: 579
Authors: Shaikh Shamim, Lin, Md. Giashuddin, Tofayel, Abdus
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Using the Köppen classification to quantify climate variation and change: An example for 1901–2010
Citation: 533
Authors: Deliang, Hans Weiteng
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A nitrogen footprint model to help consumers understand their role in nitrogen losses to the environment
Citation: 401
Authors: Allison M., James N., Albert, Jan Willem, Richard, Justin
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Managing the food, water, and energy nexus for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia
Citation: 389
Authors: Golam
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China's ion-adsorption rare earth resources, mining consequences and preservation
Citation: 346
Authors: X. Jin, Aijun, Xiao-Liang, Yiding, Wenbin, Zhanheng
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Rethinking sustainable development within the framework of poverty and urbanisation in developing countries
Citation: 219
Authors: Patrick Brandful, Michael Odei, Paul