Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Aims & Scope

Resources, Conservation & Recycling has an open access mirror journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.

The Editors welcome contributions from research, which consider sustainable management and conservation of resources.

The journal emphasizes the transformation processes involved in a transition toward more sustainable production and consumption systems.

Emphasis is upon technological, economic, institutional and policy aspects of specific resource management practices, such as conservation, recycling and resource substitution, and of "systems-wide" strategies, such as resource productivity improvement, the restructuring of production and consumption profiles and the transformation of industry.

Contributions may have relevance at regional, national or international scales and may focus at any level of research from individual resources or technologies to whole sectors or systems of interest.

Contributors may emphasise any of the aforementioned aspects as well as scientific and methodological issues.

However, manuscripts that consider only laboratory experiments, without a discussion of the practical, environmental and economic implications of the presented research, are excluded from publication in the journal.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	10.9
2024	11.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.872

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	218

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	778

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	25171

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 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.

• Conceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitions

  Citation: 5497

  Authors: Julian, Denise, Marko

• The circular economy: New or Refurbished as CE 3.0? — Exploring Controversies in the Conceptualization of the Circular Economy through a Focus on History and Resource Value Retention Options

  Citation: 1305

  Authors: Denise, Walter J.V., Sjors

• Challenges toward carbon neutrality in China: Strategies and countermeasures

  Citation: 1183

  Authors: Xin, Xiaowei, Boyang, Yuping, Malin

• Circular economy – From review of theories and practices to development of implementation tools

  Citation: 1026

  Authors: Yuliya, Madumita, Leonardo

• Targets for a circular economy

  Citation: 988

  Authors: Piero

• Circular economy indicators: What do they measure?

  Citation: 864

  Authors: Gustavo, Sophie, Fabrice, Gian Andrea, Luc, Karel, Steven, Jo

• Construction and demolition waste management in China through the 3R principle

  Citation: 839

  Authors: Beijia, Xiangyu, Harnwei, Yong, Raimund, Jingzheng

• Microwave heating applications in environmental engineering—a review

  Citation: 800

  Authors: D.A., T.P., S.D., S.W., N.J.

• Sustainable management of coffee industry by-products and value addition—A review

  Citation: 782

  Authors: Pushpa S., M.

• Production of levulinic acid and use as a platform chemical for derived products

  Citation: 746

  Authors: Joseph J, L, D.C, Y, G.G, S.W, R.J, J.L

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