Global Environmental Change

Aims & Scope

Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed international journal publishing high quality, theoretically and empirically rigorous articles, which advance knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change.

The journal interprets global environmental change to mean the outcome of processes that are manifest in localities, but with consequences at multiple spatial, temporal and socio-political scales.

The journal is interested in articles which have a significant social science component.

These include articles that address the social drivers or consequences of environmental change, or social and policy processes that seek to address problems of environmental change.

Topics include, but are not restricted to, the drivers, consequences and management of changes in: biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	9.1
2024	8.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	3.355

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	242

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	594

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	4711

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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
• Web of Science

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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.

• Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses

  Citation: 4861

  Authors: Carl

• Changes in the global value of ecosystem services

  Citation: 4661

  Authors: Robert, Rudolf, Paul, Sander, Sharolyn J., Ida, Stephen, R. Kerry

• The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

  Citation: 4513

  Authors: Keywan, Detlef P., Elmar, Jae, Brian C., Shinichiro, Nico, Katherine, Rob, Oliver, Wolfgang, Alexander, Jesus Crespo, Samir, Marian, Leiwen, Tom, Shilpa, Johannes, Kristie, Tomoko, Petr, Florian, Lara Aleluia, Steve, Elke, Valentina, Jiyong, David, Toshihiko, Joeri, Jessica, Laurent, Volker, Gunnar, Mathijs, Kiyoshi, Lavinia, Jonathan C., Mikiko, Zbigniew, Giacomo, Hermann, Michael, Andrzej, Massimo

• Vulnerability

  Citation: 4379

  Authors: W. Neil

• The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought

  Citation: 3963

  Authors: Dana, Jan-Olof, Stuart

• Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability

  Citation: 3461

  Authors: Barry, Johanna

• A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters

  Citation: 3003

  Authors: Susan L., Lindsey, Melissa, Christopher, Elijah, Eric, Jennifer

• The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

  Citation: 2555

  Authors: Eric F., B.L., Helmut J., Samuel B., Arild, John W., Oliver T., Rodolfo, Günther, Carl, P.S., Katherine, Jacques, Rik, Xiubin, Emilio F., Michael, P.S., John F., Helle, Will, Glenn D., Uno, Tom A., Coleen, Jianchu

• The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century

  Citation: 2266

  Authors: Brian C., Elmar, Kristie L., Eric, Keywan, Dale S., Bas J., Detlef P., Joern, Kasper, Marc, William

• Successful adaptation to climate change across scales

  Citation: 2068

  Authors: W., Nigel W., Emma L.

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