Sustainable Cities and Society

Aims & Scope

Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities.

We encourage submission of cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in the areas of, 1.

Smart cities and resilient environments; 2.

Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3.

Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4.

Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6.

Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7.

Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8.

Urban agriculture and forestry; 9.

ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10.

Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11.

Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12.

Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13.

Health monitoring and improvement; 14.

Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15.

Smart city governance; 16.

Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17.

Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18.

Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19.

Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20.

Waste reduction and recycling; 21.

Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22.

Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	12
2024	10.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	780

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	32778

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.869

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	156

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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 Energy, Engineering 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.

• Towards sustainable smart cities: A review of trends, architectures, components, and open challenges in smart cities

  Citation: 1348

  Authors: Bhagya Nathali, Murad, Kijun

• Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review

  Citation: 1135

  Authors: Simon Elias, John

• Determinants of the ecological footprint: Role of renewable energy, natural resources, and urbanization

  Citation: 780

  Authors: Recep, Salah Ud-Din

• Ancile: Privacy-preserving framework for access control and interoperability of electronic health records using blockchain technology

  Citation: 697

  Authors: Gaby G., Jordan, Matea, Praneeth Babu

• Revisiting the role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on Turkey’s ecological footprint: Evidence from Quantile ARDL approach

  Citation: 688

  Authors: Arshian, Ozge, Gizem, Ilhan, Avik

• The IoT for smart sustainable cities of the future: An analytical framework for sensor-based big data applications for environmental sustainability

  Citation: 625

  Authors: Simon Elias

• Modeling and forecasting building energy consumption: A review of data-driven techniques

  Citation: 613

  Authors: Mathieu, Xiao qiang, Elyes, Xiaofeng, Patrice

• Can cities become smart without being sustainable? A systematic review of the literature

  Citation: 529

  Authors: Tan, Md., Marcus, Jamile, Eduardo, Giuseppe

• Impacts of urbanization on urban structures and energy demand: What can we learn for urban energy planning and urbanization management?

  Citation: 526

  Authors: Reinhard, Yasin

• Urban resilience: A conceptual framework

  Citation: 523

  Authors: Paulo Jorge Gomes, Luís António

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