Environmental and Sustainability Indicators

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators is a gold open access journal published by Elsevier since 2019 as a companion to Ecological Indicators, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.5.《环境与可持续性指标》（Environmental and Sustainability Indicators）是（Elsevier）自 2019 年起出版的金色开放获取期刊，为（Ecological Indicators）的姊妹刊，2025 年影响因子为 5.5。

Scope

• The journal promotes research on indicators as drivers for environmental management and policy formulation.本刊推动把指标作为环境管理与政策制定驱动力的研究。
• The development, validation and application of environmental indicators are its core subject.环境指标的开发、验证与应用是其核心主题。
• Sustainability assessment, including the measurement of progress towards sustainable development, is covered.可持续性评估，包括对可持续发展进展的度量，均有收录。
• Interdisciplinary work that assesses complex environmental interactions is welcomed.评估复杂环境相互作用的跨学科研究受到欢迎。
• Ecosystem services, natural capital accounting and resource efficiency indicators are published.生态系统服务、自然资本核算与资源效率指标均予发表。
• Environmental monitoring, remote sensing and data-driven indicator frameworks are within scope.环境监测、遥感与数据驱动的指标框架均在其范围之内。
• Indicators linked to policy targets, including those tied to the Sustainable Development Goals, are treated at length.与政策目标（包括与可持续发展目标挂钩者）相关的指标受到重点讨论。

History

• Environmental and Sustainability Indicators began publishing in 2019 as an open access companion title to Ecological Indicators.《环境与可持续性指标》自 2019 年起出版，是（Ecological Indicators）的开放获取姊妹刊。
• It was created to give indicator research a dedicated home at a time when such work was dispersed across environmental journals.其创办意在为指标研究提供专门园地，此前这类成果分散于各类环境期刊。
• The journal has been fully open access from the outset, releasing articles under Creative Commons licences.本刊自创办起即为完全开放获取，文章以知识共享许可发布。
• It is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals.本刊被新兴来源引文索引、（Scopus）与（Directory of Open Access Journals）收录。
• Output has grown quickly, reaching nearly five hundred articles a year.其发文量增长迅速，已达每年近五百篇。
• Its impact factor stood at 5.6 in 2024 and 5.5 in 2025, and it is ranked in the first quartile of environmental studies.其影响因子在 2024 年为 5.6，2025 年为 5.5，位居环境研究类第一分区。

Editors

• The editorial board is multidisciplinary, spanning environmental science, ecology, economics and policy research.编委会为多学科构成，横跨环境科学、生态学、经济学与政策研究。
• Manuscripts are peer reviewed, and the journal publishes research articles and reviews.稿件经同行评审，本刊发表研究论文与综述。
• As a gold open access title it charges article processing charges, with waivers available and with agreements covering some national systems.作为金色开放获取期刊，本刊收取文章处理费，并设有减免，也覆盖部分国家的开放获取协议。
• The journal publishes papers that build indicators into common practice for environmental decision making.本刊发表把指标变为环境决策常规做法的论文。
• Special issues gather work on themes such as urban sustainability and agricultural indicators.专刊围绕城市可持续性、农业指标等主题汇集成果。
• Authors are encouraged to make the datasets behind their indicators openly available.本刊鼓励作者公开其指标所依据的数据集。