Overview
Sustainability Science is a hybrid journal that probes interactions between global, social, and human systems, the complex mechanisms that lead to degradation of these systems, and concomitant risks to human well-being.
- Editor-in-Chief is Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Project Professor for the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
- A platform for building sustainability science as an evolving academic discipline which can point the way to a sustainable global society by facing challenges that existing disciplines have not addressed.
- Creates a transdisciplinary academic structure and discovery process that fuses the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
- Contact the editorial office: sustsci.eo@iges.or.jp .
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Kazuhiko Takeuchi
- Managing Editor
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- Osamu Saito
- Journal Impact Factor
- 5.1 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 6.8 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 35 days
- Downloads
- 1,657,666 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Supporting the Sustainable Developmental Goals
We are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2023 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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IR3S and IGES
Sustainability Science is published by Springer on behalf of The Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science of the University of Tokyo (IR3S) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).
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Special Feature
Find the special feature proposal format, calendar and submission details here.
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Book Series: Science for Sustainable Societies
A book series from the editorial office of Sustainability Science.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1862-4057
- Print ISSN
- 1862-4065
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- ANVUR
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- Baidu
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information