Sustainable Cities and Society

Energy · Engineering · Social Sciences

Impact Factor
12.941
2022
H-Index
130.000
2023
SJR
2.545
2023

I. Journal Information

ISSN22106707
CountryNetherlands
PublisherElsevier BV
Subject AreasEnergy · Engineering · Social Sciences
Publication TypeJournals
Active Years2011-ongoing
CompetitivenessNo clear consensus
Publication TimeNo clear consensus
WebsiteVisit journal
JIF 2022–202310.500
2019-2020 SCR Rank1045
2020-2021 SCR Rank795

II. Scope & Description

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

III. Impact Factor History

Year2-Year IF3-Year IF4-Year IF
202212.94112.63712.249
202111.03310.82610.655
20208.5298.5348.341
20196.2896.3886.319
20185.3695.3885.345
20173.7723.8853.891
20162.9533.0003.018
20153.1643.0733.204
20142.423
20132.460
20121.655

Note: impact factor data for reference only.

IV. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

SJR measures scientific influence, weighting citations by the prestige of the citing journal.

YearSJR Score
20232.545
20222.305
20212.015
20201.645
20191.356
20181.100
20171.047
20160.914
20150.810

V. H-Index

The H-Index measures both the productivity and citation impact of a journal's publications.

YearH-Index
2023130.000
2022103.000
202182.000
202061.000

How to Get Published

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