Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities is an open access journal on city life and urban sustainability, published by Frontiers.《Frontiers in Sustainable Cities》是一份聚焦城市生活与城市可持续性的开放获取期刊，由前沿出版社出版。

It was launched in 2019 and draws several disciplines together around how a city is lived in and kept going.该刊于 2019 年创办，围绕城市如何被居住与如何维系把若干学科汇于一处。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3, and it stands in the first quartile of urban studies.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在城市研究类目列第一区。

Scope

• The journal takes the contemporary and the future city as its subject, and it asks how urban life is to be sustained.该刊以当代与未来的城市为题材，追问城市生活如何被维系。

• It reaches across disciplines by design, and it takes work from engineering, from urban studies and from the social sciences.该刊按设计横跨学科，收载来自工程学、城市研究与社会科学的各项工作。

• Urban planning is named, and the journal carries work on how a city is laid out and how a plan is made to hold.城市规划被点名，该刊刊载城市如何被布局、规划如何被做得成立的工作。

• Infrastructure is treated, and the journal admits work on the systems that carry water, power and people.基础设施得到处理，该刊收载承载水、电与人的系统方面的工作。

• Sustainable infrastructure is named, and the journal takes work on how such a system is built with less harm.可持续基础设施被点名，该刊收载这类系统如何以更少损害被建造的工作。

• Technology in the city is treated, and the journal carries work on how a device or a platform changes an urban service.城市中的技术得到处理，该刊刊载器件或平台如何改变城市服务的工作。

• Governance is named, and the journal admits work on how a city is steered and who is heard in the steering.治理被点名，该刊收载城市如何被引导、引导中谁的声音被听见的工作。

• Innovation and governance are pulled together, and the journal carries work on how a new practice is taken up by a city.创新与治理被拉到一处，该刊刊载新做法如何被一座城市采纳的工作。

• Climate change is named, and the journal takes work on how a city is made to face a hotter and a wetter world.气候变化被点名，该刊收载城市如何被使其面对更热、更湿的世界的工作。

• Urban resilience is treated, and the journal admits work on how a city holds together through a shock.城市韧性得到处理，该刊收载城市如何在冲击之中维系不散的工作。

• Urban energy end use is named, and the journal carries work on how a city draws and spends its power.城市能源终端使用被点名，该刊刊载城市如何取用与耗费电力方面的工作。

• Transportation and mobility are treated, and the journal takes work on how people and goods move through a city.交通与出行得到处理，该刊收载人与货物如何穿行城市的工作。

• Health and wellbeing are named, and the journal admits work on how a built environment bears on how people feel.健康与福祉被点名，该刊收载建成环境如何关系到人的感受的工作。

• Social inclusion and equality are part of the remit, and the journal carries work on who a city serves and who it leaves out.社会包容与平等属于收稿范围，该刊刊载城市服务了谁、遗漏了谁的工作。

• The sustainable development goals are invoked as a frame, and the journal asks how an urban change bears on them.可持续发展目标被援引为框架，该刊追问某一城市变化与之关系如何。

• Practice oriented work is welcomed, and the journal takes a study that can bear on a policy or a plan.面向实践的工作受到欢迎，该刊收载能对某一政策或规划产生影响的研究。

• Empirical work, case studies and policy analysis are all taken, and the journal sets out the structure each should follow.实证研究、案例分析与政策分析均予收载，该刊列出各类应遵循的结构。

History

• The journal was launched in 2019, and it was opened with an editorial on why urban life needed a journal of its own.该刊于 2019 年创办，以一篇社论开篇，论城市生活为何需要一份专属刊物。

• It was issued by a house that runs its journals entirely online and openly, and it was written from the outset for a readership across continents.该刊由一家将其刊物完全在线且开放地经营的出版方发行，自始即为遍及各大洲的读者而写。

• It was issued from a city in Switzerland, and it draws its contributors from universities around the world.该刊自瑞士的一座城市发行，其作者来自世界各地的大学。

• 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。

• The volume number rises with each year, and the series had reached volume 8 by 2026.该刊卷号逐年递升，到 2026 年已出至第 8 卷。

• There is no issue to wait for, and a paper appears as soon as it has passed review.该刊没有可等待的分期，论文一经通过评审即行出现。

• 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。

• Authors keep the copyright of their work, and every article is released under a licence that allows reuse with attribution.作者保留其作品的著作权，每篇文章以允许署名再用的许可发布。

• The journal became well placed in its field, and it now stands in the top band of urban studies.该刊在其领域内取得了有利位置，如今位居城市研究的前列档次。

• The impact figure has dipped and then risen, standing at 2.1 for 2024 and reaching 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子先回落而后上升，2024 年为 2.1，2025 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。

• Its papers are also listed in PubMed on a selective basis, and the journal records those citations as selected only.其论文亦以择选方式列入 PubMed，该刊把这些收录记为仅择选。

• Research topics are assembled from time to time, and the journal gathers work on such themes as streetscapes and urban mobility.该刊不时编成研究专题，汇集诸如街道景观与城市出行一类主题的工作。

Editors

• James Evans of the University of Manchester is field chief editor, and his own field is the relation between a city and its environment.曼彻斯特大学的（James Evans）担任领域主编，其本人领域为城市与其环境之间的关系。

• He opened the title with a statement of why an urban question needs more than one discipline to answer.他以一段陈述为该刊开篇，说明城市问题为何需要不止一个学科来回答。

• The journal is led by section as well as by field, and each branch has its own chief editor.该刊既按领域也按栏目主持，每一分支各有自己的主编。

• Those section chiefs are drawn from universities in Britain and beyond, and they cover climate, technology, energy and mobility.这些栏目主编来自英国及其他地区的大学，覆盖气候、技术、能源与出行。

• An editorial board advises on content, and the journal draws its members from several countries and from policy bodies.一个编委会为内容提供建议，该刊从数个国家与政策机构遴请成员。

• 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。

• The review is open and interactive by design, and the names of the reviewers are published alongside the paper.其评审按设计是公开且交互的，审稿人姓名随论文一并公布。

• 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。

• Where a study involves people, the journal asks that consent and approval be recorded.涉及人的研究，该刊要求记录知情同意与批准情况。

• A data availability statement is required, and the journal asks that the material behind a claim be made reachable.须提交数据可获取性声明，该刊要求论断背后的材料可供获取。

• The journal is read by urban planners and by engineers, by social scientists and by policy makers, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有城市规划者与工程师，也有社会科学者与政策制定者，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that carries a laboratory idea toward a city is given room, and the journal asks what the carrying changes.把实验室想法带向城市的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一带动改变了什么。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since a scheme that failed to take hold is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为未能落地的方案同样值得记录。

• Work on a green space appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how a park bears on health and on heat.绿地方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载公园如何关系到健康与热量的论文。

• 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 on informal settlement is named, and the journal admits papers on how a city houses those it has not planned for.非正规聚居方面的工作被点名，该刊收载城市如何安置其未曾规划之人的论文。

• Work that weighs a plan against its cost and its fairness is welcomed, and the journal carries papers on what the plan buys.把规划与其成本、公平相权衡的工作受到欢迎，该刊刊载该规划换得何物的论文。

• 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。