Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is an open access journal on the built and engineered systems that carry a society, published by IOP Publishing.《Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability》是一份聚焦承载社会的建成与工程系统的开放获取期刊，由英国物理学会出版社出版。

It was launched in 2021 as part of the publisher's Environmental Research series, and it carries multidisciplinary work.该刊于 2021 年作为出版方环境研究系列的一员创办，刊载多学科的工作。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3, and it stands in the second quartile of environmental studies.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在环境研究类目列第二区。

Scope

• The journal takes infrastructure as its subject, and it asks how such systems are built and kept up within the limits of the environment.该刊以基础设施为题材，追问这类系统如何在环境的限度之内被建造与维持。

• Work is drawn from all scales and all geographies, and the journal admits a study of a single city alongside one that spans a continent.稿件来自一切尺度与一切地域，该刊既收载对单一城市的研究，也收载跨越一洲的研究。

• Sustainability is treated as a whole rather than as a single dimension, and economic and social factors are weighed with the environmental.可持续性被当作整体而非单一维度，经济与社会因素同环境因素一并权衡。

• Environmental assessment of the built environment is named, and the journal carries work on how a structure is judged against its impact.建成环境的环境评价被点名，该刊刊载建筑如何对照其影响加以评判的工作。

• Life cycle thinking is pursued, and the journal asks what a system costs and emits from first material to end of use.生命周期思维受到追求，该刊追问系统从最初材料到使用终结的成本与排放。

• Carbon and material accounting is treated, and the journal carries work that ties storage, emissions and material flows together.碳与材料核算得到处理，该刊刊载把储存、排放与物质流系于一处的工作。

• Energy systems are named, and the journal takes work on the generation, transmission and resilience of an energy supply.能源系统被点名，该刊收载能源供应的生产、输配与韧性方面的工作。

• Water infrastructure is part of the remit, and the journal admits work on how water is drawn, moved, treated and returned.水务设施属于收稿范围，该刊收载水的取用、输送、处理与回用方面的工作。

• Transportation and mobility are treated, and the journal carries work on how people and goods are moved with less harm.交通与出行得到处理，该刊刊载人与货物如何以更少损害被运送的工作。

• Buildings are named, and the journal admits work on how a structure is made efficient and how its emissions are brought down.建筑被点名，该刊收载结构如何被做得高效、其排放如何被压低的工作。

• Urban systems are treated, and the journal takes work on how a city is organised and how it responds to a changing climate.城市系统得到处理，该刊收载城市如何被组织、如何应对变化气候的工作。

• Circular and net-zero metabolism is pursued, and the journal carries work on how a system is made to close its loops.循环与净零代谢受到追求，该刊刊载系统如何被做得闭合其回路的工作。

• Natural hazards and extreme events are named, and the journal admits work on how infrastructure holds against a shock.自然灾害与极端事件被点名，该刊收载基础设施如何抵御冲击的工作。

• Data and computation are treated as methods, and the journal carries work on how granular data or a model informs a decision.数据与计算作为方法得到处理，该刊刊载细粒度数据或模型如何支撑决策的工作。

• Wellbeing is admitted as a consideration, and the journal asks what a system does for the people it serves.福祉作为一项考量受到收载，该刊追问系统为其服务的人群做了什么。

• Quantitative, experimental, theoretical and applied work are all taken, and the journal admits a qualitative study alongside them.定量、实验、理论与应用的工作均予收载，该刊也一并收载定性研究。

• Cross-disciplinary work is encouraged, and the journal asks that a study join two fields rather than stay inside one.跨学科工作受到鼓励，该刊要求研究连接两个领域，而非停留于一个之中。

History

• The journal was launched in 2021, and its first volume opened with an editorial that set out why the field needed a home journal.该刊于 2021 年创办，首卷以一篇社论开篇，说明这一领域为何需要一份本行刊物。

• It was built on the reputation of Environmental Research Letters, and it sits within the broader Environmental Research series of the publisher.该刊建立在《Environmental Research Letters》的声誉之上，居于出版方环境研究系列的更广框架之中。

• Only one number is in use for the title, and the journal is published online rather than in print.该刊只使用一个刊号，以在线而非印刷形式出版。

• A volume is published for each year, and the series had reached volume 6 by 2026.该刊每年出版一卷，到 2026 年已出至第 6 卷。

• Four issues are gathered into a year, one for each quarter, in the present arrangement.按现行安排该刊每年汇集四期，每季度一期。

• Access was open from the start, and every article is free to read from the moment it appears.该刊自始即开放获取，每篇文章自出现那一刻起即可免费阅读。

• A publication charge applies to an accepted paper, and the journal points to the publisher's policy and to its waiver scheme.被录用的论文须缴纳出版费用，该刊指明出版方的政策与减免方案。

• The publisher belongs to a coalition of learned societies that run their journals as not-for-profit ventures.该出版方隶属于一个由学术团体组成的联盟，这些团体以非营利的方式经营其刊物。

• Authors are encouraged to post a manuscript on a preprint server, and the journal takes a friendly line on their doing so.该刊鼓励作者把稿件贴到预印本服务器上，对此持友善态度。

• Work that is taken may include a citable dataset or a piece of code, and the journal treats both as part of the record.被录用的工作可以包含可引用的数据集或代码，该刊把二者都当作记录的一部分。

• A paper is published within a day of acceptance, and the journal reports a first decision before review in about three days.论文在被录用后一天之内发表，该刊报告评审前首次决定约为三天。

• The impact figure has climbed since the first volumes, standing at 2.7 for 2023 and reaching 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子自最初几卷起上升，2023 年为 2.7，2025 年版为 3.3。

• The journal is indexed in the emerging sources citation index, and it is carried in Scopus and in the directory of open access journals.该刊被新兴资源引文索引收录，并被 Scopus 与开放获取期刊目录收录。

• Focus collections are a staple, and the journal gathers papers on subjects such as water infrastructure and urban climate resilience.专题合集是其一贯做法，该刊汇集诸如水务设施与城市气候韧性一类题目的论文。

Editors

• Arpad Horvath of the University of California, Berkeley is editor-in-chief, and his own work concerns the environmental performance of infrastructure.加州大学伯克利分校的（Arpad Horvath）担任主编，其本人研究涉及基础设施的环境表现。

• He set out the case for the journal in its opening editorial, arguing that the field had been fragmented across disciplines.他在创刊社论中陈述了创办该刊的理由，主张这一领域此前散落在多个学科之中。

• A body of associate editors shares the handling of papers, and the journal draws them from several countries.一组副编辑分担稿件处理，该刊从数个国家遴请人选。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the review is anonymous on the side of the reviewer.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，评审在审稿人一侧为匿名。

• A reviewer is asked to judge whether a study joins its fields, and whether its method fits the question it poses.审稿人须判断研究是否连接了其所属领域，并判断其方法是否契合所提问题。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• Data sharing is expected rather than merely hoped for, and the journal asks that underlying data be made available.数据共享是被期待而非仅仅被希求之事，该刊要求底层数据可供获取。

• Where a claim rests on a model, the journal asks that the assumptions behind it be stated so that another team can test it.论断若依赖某项模型，该刊要求说明其背后的假设，使另一团队可以检验。

• An author may propose a focus collection, and the journal says it welcomes proposals from the research community.作者可以提议专题合集，该刊称欢迎来自研究共同体的此类提议。

• The editorial team works from the publisher's offices, and the journal takes enquiries before a full submission is made.编辑团队在出版方的办公室工作，该刊接受在正式投稿之前发出的询问。

• The journal is read by civil and environmental engineers and by urban planners, by energy analysts and by policy researchers, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有土木与环境工程师与城市规划者，也有能源分析师与政策研究者，它为这几类人写作。

• A study that weighs a technology against its setting is given room, and the journal asks what the setting does to the claim.把技术与其所处情境相权衡的研究有篇幅可用，该刊追问情境对论断做了什么。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since a design that failed to help is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为无助于事的设计同样值得记录。

• Work on the resilience of a network appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how a system recovers from a partial failure.网络韧性方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载系统如何从局部失效中恢复的论文。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its original reports, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与原始报告区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。

• Work that joins a physical model to a policy question is welcomed, and the journal asks what the joining changes for a decision.把物理模型与政策问题相连的工作受到欢迎，该刊追问这一连接对决策改变了什么。

• The journal follows the publisher's policy on research integrity, and it records corrections and withdrawals where they arise.该刊遵循出版方的研究诚信政策，出现更正与撤稿时予以记录。