Geography and Sustainability

Geography and Sustainability is a fully open access English-language journal founded in March 2020 by the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Beijing Normal University, supervised by the Ministry of Education of China and issued jointly by Beijing Normal University Press and Elsevier, positioned as an international platform for integrated geography and sustainability science, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.8 and first quartile standing both in physical geography and in green and sustainable science and technology《地理学与可持续性》（Geography and Sustainability，简称 GeoSus）是 2020 年 3 月由北京师范大学地理科学学部创办、由中华人民共和国教育部主管、北京师范大学主办的英文学术开源期刊，由北京师范大学出版社（集团）有限公司与爱思唯尔（Elsevier）联合全球发行，定位为整合地理学与可持续性科学的国际平台，2025 年影响因子为 9.8，在自然地理与绿色可持续科学技术两个类别均列第一四分位。

Scope

• The stated aim of the journal is to serve as the focal point for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education that promote sustainable development through an integrated geography perspective, and it encourages wider analysis and innovative thinking about global and regional sustainability by bridging and synthesising the natural and the human sciences该刊的宗旨是以整合的地理学视角推动可持续发展，成为跨学科研究与教育的开发、协调与实施枢纽，并通过沟通与综合自然科学与人文社会科学，鼓励对全球与区域可持续性展开更广泛的分析与创新性思考。
• Its declared content covers geographic processes, ecosystem services and human wellbeing, human-environment systems, sustainable development, and geographic data and models for sustainability, and it publishes research articles, reviews, short communications, technical comments, perspective articles and editorials其刊登内容涵盖地理过程、生态系统服务与人类福祉、人与环境系统、可持续发展以及面向可持续性的地理数据与模型，刊物体裁包括研究论文、综述、短评、技术评述、观点文章与社论。
• The subject areas recorded by the publisher are geography, planning and development, management, monitoring, policy and law, and ecology, matching the two Journal Citation Reports categories of physical geography and green and sustainable science and technology出版方登记的学科领域为地理学、规划与发展，管理、监测、政策与法律，以及生态学，与期刊引证报告中自然地理、绿色与可持续科学技术两个类别相合。
• It is an international open access title of the International Geographical Union system, serving as the journal of the union commission on geography for future earth dealing with coupled human-earth systems for sustainability, and its editorial board is drawn from the international research community on that platform该刊是国际地理联合会（IGU）体系中的国际英文开源期刊，兼任联合会面向未来地球的地理学：人地系统耦合与可持续发展专业委员会的会刊，其编委会即依托该平台由国际地理学与可持续性科学界的学者组成。
• Manuscripts are assessed by double anonymous peer review, the publisher records 10 days to first decision, 94 days of review time, 173 days from submission to acceptance and 44 days from acceptance to publication, and articles are published open access under Creative Commons terms against an article publishing charge of 1700 United States dollars稿件采用双向匿名评审，出版方登记从投稿到首次决定 10 天、审稿 94 天、从投稿到录用 173 天、从录用到发表 44 天，文章以知识共享（Creative Commons）协议开放获取，文章出版费为 1700 美元。
• It is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Engineering Village GEOBASE, the Norwegian register for scientific journals and the Chinese Science Citation Database and China National Knowledge Infrastructure, with preservation carried by CLOCKSS, Portico and the national library of the Netherlands该刊被（ESCI）、（Scopus）、（DOAJ）、（Engineering Village - GEOBASE）、挪威科技期刊登记系统、（CSCD）与（CNKI）收录，长期存档由（CLOCKSS）、（Portico）与荷兰国家图书馆承担。

History

• The journal was launched in March 2020 within the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Beijing Normal University as a new international title of the discipline, its first volume carrying four issues and 37 registered articles该刊 2020 年 3 月于北京师范大学地理科学学部创刊，是地理学新增的国际英文期刊，第 1 卷出版 4 期、登记文章 37 篇。
• Its opening paper was the editorial Promoting Geography for Sustainability, written by the editor-in-chief to set out the case for an integrated geography contribution to sustainability science创刊开篇文章为主编撰写的社论（Promoting Geography for Sustainability），阐明以整合地理学贡献于可持续性科学的主张。^[1]
• Early numbers combined research with national syntheses, among them studies of the environmental sustainability of the water footprint in mainland China and of ecosystem fires and biomass burning emissions in China over two decades早期各期将国际议题与中国国别综合研究并置，刊有中国大陆水足迹环境可持续性研究，以及近 20 年中国生态系统火与生物质燃烧排放研究。
• Registered output grew from 37 articles in 2020 and 36 in 2021 to 60 in 2024 and 132 in 2025, and the journal moved from four issues a year to six, so volume 6 covered 2025 and volume 7 covers 2026登记发文量由 2020 年的 37 篇与 2021 年的 36 篇增至 2024 年的 60 篇与 2025 年的 132 篇，刊期也由每年 4 期增至 6 期，第 6 卷对应 2025 年、第 7 卷对应 2026 年。
• Its measured influence rose with that output, the journal reporting an impact factor of 8.0 for 2024 and 9.8 for 2025 together with a Scopus CiteScore of 11.3 for 2025, both in the first quartile of their categories伴随发文量增长，其指标亦持续上升，2024 年影响因子为 8.0、2025 年为 9.8，2025 年（Scopus）CiteScore 为 11.3，均位于相应学科类别的第一四分位。
• Two of the university journals were admitted to the 2025 directory of world-class science and technology journals, a recognition recorded in the announcement of the prize won by the journals editor, and the title is distributed outside China through the international platform of its co-publisher北京师范大学两种科技期刊入选 2025 年度世界一流科技期刊目录，该刊主编获国际奖项的公告亦记录了这一阶段进展，期刊海外发行依托合出版方的国际平台。

Editors

• Bojie Fu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a research professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the academy, is the editor-in-chief, and he is also an honorary dean of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences at Beijing Normal University主编傅伯杰（Bojie Fu）为中国科学院院士、中国科学院生态环境研究中心研究员，并任北京师范大学地理科学学部名誉部长。
• He leads the journal from the study of coupled human-environment systems, having built an integrated framework of pattern, process, service and sustainability and worked on land use and soil water processes, ecosystem service trade-offs and ecological restoration across the Loess Plateau at scales from slope to region他以人地耦合系统研究主持该刊，创立格局—过程—服务—可持续性综合分析框架，在黄土高原坡面、小流域与区域多尺度开展土地利用与水土过程、生态系统服务权衡及生态恢复研究。
• He is vice-chair of the International Geographical Union and he initiated and leads the global drylands programme whose second phase, focusing on dryland social-ecological systems, the journal published at the end of 2025他任国际地理联合会（IGU）副主席，发起并领导全球干旱区大科学计划，其聚焦旱区社会-生态系统的第二阶段成果即由该刊于 2025 年底刊出。^[2]
• On 23 September 2026 the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation awarded him the 2026 Volvo Environment Prize for his pioneering work on social-ecological systems and sustainability science and for linking local ecological restoration with global sustainable development2026 年 9 月 23 日，沃尔沃环境奖基金会宣布授予他 2026 年沃尔沃环境奖（Volvo Environment Prize），表彰其在社会-生态系统与可持续性科学领域的开创性贡献，以及将地方生态恢复与全球可持续发展相联结的能力。
• An international editorial board of editors from the geographic and sustainability research community runs the peer review with the union as its platform, and the faculty and the journal jointly hold an international summer school on geography and sustainability in which the journals best editors and best reviewers are recognised编委会由地理学与可持续性科学界的国际学者组成，并以国际地理联合会为平台组织同行评审；学部与该刊联合举办地理学与可持续性国际暑期学堂，并在会上表彰年度最佳编辑与最佳审稿人。