Sustainability (journal)
| Discipline | Cross-disciplinary |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Marc Rosen |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2009-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Fortnightly |
| Yes | |
| 2.576 (2019) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Sustainability |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | SUSTDE |
| ISSN | 2071-1050 |
| Links | |
Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. It aims to provide an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published semi-monthly online by MDPI.
Disputed status as a predatory journal
There have been debates about whether Sustainability is a predatory journal. On the one hand, due to the journal's publication practices, it has repeatedly been argued that Sustainability is a predatory journal.[1] It had been on Beall's List, which lists predatory journals, but has later been removed.[1] Editors from other MDPI journals have resigned because they felt the publisher tried to pressure them into accepting mediocre articles.[2] On the other hand, the journal is indexed in Clarviate's InCites Journal Citation Reports and it has a reasonable Journal Impact Factor.[3]
Indexing
This journal is indexed in the following databases:
- AGORA (FAO)
- AGRIS - Agricultural Sciences and Technology (FAO)
- Animal Science Database (CABI)
- CAB Abstracts (CABI)
- Chemical Abstracts (ACS)
- Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- Current Contents - Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
- EconPapers (RePEc)
- FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts (IFIS)
- Genamics JournalSeek
- GeoBase (Elsevier)
- Global Health (CABI)
- HINARI (WHO)
- IDEAS (RePEc)
- Inspec (IET)
- Journal Citation Reports / Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
- Journal Citation Reports / Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (NSD)
- RePEc
- Review of Agricultural Entomology (CABI)
- Science Citation Index Expanded - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Social Sciences Citation Index - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
According to the 2019 Journal Citation Reports, the journal’s impact factor is 2.576 (2019) and the 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.798.
According to JCR category rank, Sustainability now ranks 120/265 (Q2) in 'Environmental Sciences' (SCIE) and 26/41 (Q3) in 'Green & Sustainable Science & Technology'.