Current Research in Environmental Sustainability

Current Research in Environmental Sustainability is a gold open access journal published by Elsevier, launched in 2020 as the research companion to Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and devoted to interdisciplinary research on environmental sustainability, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.8《环境可持续性当前研究》是（Elsevier）出版的金色开放获取期刊，2020 年创刊，是综述刊（Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability）的研究伴生刊，专注环境可持续性的跨学科研究，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。

Scope

• The journal publishes new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on environmental sustainability本刊发表关于环境可持续性的新跨学科与超学科研究。
• Topics range from the science of complex, self-organising and adaptive systems to the sustainable management of natural resource systems such as agriculture, water, biophysical habitats, soils and climate主题从复杂、自组织与适应系统的科学，延伸到农业、水、生物物理生境、土壤与气候等自然资源系统的可持续管理。
• It also covers the social conditions and relationships that support and maintain functioning ecosystems and enable human wellbeing期刊还涵盖维系正常运行的生态系统并促成人类福祉的社会条件与关系。
• Environmental sustainability is framed as understanding, maintaining and regenerating natural capital while achieving social and economic goals and values环境可持续性被界定为在实现社会与经济目标和价值观的同时，理解、维持并再生自然资本。
• Papers must be technically precise yet written in a style accessible to informed lay readers from diverse backgrounds, supporting the evolving UN sustainable development goals论文须技术精确，且行文风格须让不同背景的知识型普通读者可以理解，以支持不断演进的联合国可持续发展目标。
• Manuscripts should address topics of broad interdisciplinary interest and should not be geographically limited to a single jurisdiction or region稿件应面向广泛的跨学科兴趣，且不局限于单一司法辖区或区域。

History

• The journal was launched in January 2020 with an inaugural editorial by founding editor Brian D. Fath of Towson University and Bronwyn Hayward of the University of Canterbury该刊于 2020 年 1 月创刊，创刊编辑陶森大学的（Brian D. Fath）与坎特伯雷大学的（Bronwyn Hayward）撰写创刊社论。^[1]
• It belongs to the Current Opinion and Research suite of Elsevier journals and serves as the research companion to the review journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability本刊属（Elsevier）当代观点与研究期刊系列，是综述刊《当代环境可持续性观点》（Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability）的研究伴生刊。
• The journal is online-only, carries the single ISSN 2666-0490 and publishes articles continuously within annual volumes本刊纯在线出版，单一刊号 2666-0490，按连续出版模式在年度卷内发表文章。
• Its first Journal Impact Factor arrived with the 2024 edition, and the 2025 factor stands at 4.8 after 3.8 in 2024该刊在 2024 年版中首次获得影响因子，2025 年影响因子为 4.8，2024 年为 3.8。
• It is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals and PubMed该刊被新兴科学引文索引（ESCI）、（Scopus）、开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ）与（PubMed）收录。
• The article processing charge is 3,060 US dollars, with geographical pricing according to the income level of author countries文章处理费为 3,060 美元，并按作者所在国收入水平实行地区差别定价。

Editors

• The Editors-in-Chief are Brenda Lin of CSIRO Land and Water in Australia and Magnus Moglia of the Climate Change Adaptation Lab at La Trobe University in Melbourne共同主编为澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织水土研究所的（Brenda Lin）与墨尔本拉筹伯大学气候变化适应实验室的（Magnus Moglia）。
• Consulting editors Eduardo S. Brondizio of Indiana University and William Solecki of Hunter College advise the journal印第安纳大学的（Eduardo S. Brondizio）与亨特学院的（William Solecki）任顾问编辑。
• Founding editor Brian Fath of Towson University continues to shape the journal's systems-science orientation创刊编辑陶森大学的（Brian Fath）持续塑造本刊的系统科学取向。
• Five associate editors cover urban metabolism, environmental economics, climate adaptation, water security and material flows五位副编辑分管城市代谢、环境经济学、气候适应、水安全与物质流。
• Peer review is double-anonymised, with authors' and reviewers' identities concealed from each other同行评审实行双匿名，作者与审稿人身份互不可见。
• Review articles require a pre-submission proposal approved by the editors, while perspective articles are by invitation only综述文章须先提交经编辑批准的预投稿提案，观点文章则仅限受邀撰写。