Groundwater for Sustainable Development
Groundwater for Sustainable Development is an international, interdisciplinary journal published by Elsevier since 2015 and affiliated with the International Society of Groundwater for Sustainable Development, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.8.《地下水可持续发展》（Groundwater for Sustainable Development）由（Elsevier）自 2015 年起出版，是国际性跨学科期刊，隶属于国际地下水可持续发展学会，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8。
Scope
- Groundwater resources and aquifer systems, including recharge, storage, flow, discharge and groundwater-surface water interaction, form the first pillar.地下水资源与含水层系统，包括补给、储存、流动、排泄以及地表水与地下水的相互作用，构成第一支柱。
- Groundwater quality and hydrogeochemistry covers geogenic contaminants such as arsenic and fluoride, salinisation, seawater intrusion and emerging contaminants.地下水质量与水文地球化学，涵盖砷、氟等地质成因污染物、盐化、海水入侵与新污染物。
- Contamination, transport and remediation are treated together with vulnerability mapping and risk assessment.污染、迁移与修复，连同脆弱性制图与风险评估一并处理。
- Sustainability and resource management include sustainable abstraction, depletion and recovery, conjunctive use and allocation between human and environmental needs.可持续性与资源管理，包括可持续开采、耗竭与恢复、联合调度，以及在人类与环境需求之间的分配。
- Climate change, drought and groundwater resilience are addressed alongside managed aquifer recharge, aquifer storage and recovery and water banking.气候变化、干旱与地下水韧性，连同含水层管理补给、含水层储存与回采以及水银行机制一同讨论。
- Groundwater-dependent ecosystems, environmental flows and the water-energy-food nexus link hydrogeology to ecology and to sectoral policy.依赖地下水的水生态系统、环境流量与水电粮食关联，把水文地质学与生态学及部门政策连接起来。
- Governance, policy, economics, law and public health complete the scope, while routine water-quality characterisation or conventional overlay mapping without methodological innovation is outside the journal's priority.治理、政策、经济、法律与公共卫生构成范围的其余部分，而常规水质表征或缺少方法创新的图层叠加则不在优先之列。
History
- The first issue appeared in November 2015, and the journal marked its tenth anniversary in 2025 with a retrospective from the editor-in-chief.首期于 2015 年 11 月出版，2025 年期刊以主编回顾文章纪念创刊十周年。
- It was launched with the International Society of Groundwater for Sustainable Development to give groundwater science a forum oriented towards sustainability rather than to physical hydrogeology alone.本刊与国际地下水可持续发展学会共同创办，旨在为地下水科学提供面向可持续性而非仅面向物理水文地质学的论坛。
- Jochen Bundschuh, now at the University of Southern Queensland, led the title in its early years and is listed as emeritus editor-in-chief.现任职于南昆士兰大学的 Jochen Bundschuh 在创刊初期主持本刊，现列为荣休主编。
- Publication is continuous, with several volumes a year and article numbers in place of page ranges.期刊连续出版，每年多卷，以文章编号代替连续页码。
- Review is single anonymised, at least two reviewers assess each manuscript that passes editorial screening, and the median time to first decision is four days.评审采用单匿名方式，通过编辑初筛的稿件至少由两位审稿人评估，初审中位时间为 4 天。
- The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.8, against 5.6 in 2024, and in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the journal is first quartile in water resources at 17th of 132.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8，2024 年为 5.6；在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，本刊于水资源类 132 种期刊中位列第 17，属第一四分位。
Editors
- Jurgen Mahlknecht of Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico is editor-in-chief, with interests in water quality, hydrogeochemistry, environmental isotopes and microcontaminants.墨西哥蒙特雷理工学院的 Jurgen Mahlknecht 任主编，研究兴趣包括水质、水文地球化学、环境同位素与微量污染物。
- Alper Baba of the Izmir Institute of Technology works on hydrogeology and geothermal energy, and Kenneth Carroll of New Mexico State University on vadose zone processes and contaminant transport.伊兹密尔理工学院的 Alper Baba 研究水文地质与地热能，新墨西哥州立大学的 Kenneth Carroll 研究包气带过程与污染物迁移。
- Tiina Leiviska of the University of Oulu covers water treatment and adsorption, and Micol Mastrocicco of the University of Campania covers aquifer vulnerability.奥卢大学的 Tiina Leiviska 负责水处理与吸附，坎帕尼亚大学的 Micol Mastrocicco 负责含水层脆弱性。
- Jinxia Wang of Hohai University brings water policy and climate economics to the board, which has 25 members drawn from 15 countries.河海大学的 Jinxia Wang 为编委会带来水政策与气候经济学专长；编委会共 25 人，来自 15 个国家。
- Submissions pass through Elsevier's editorial system, and case studies are accepted only when they answer a defined question of relevance beyond the study area.稿件经（Elsevier）编辑系统处理，案例研究只有在回答明确问题且具有超出研究区意义时才被接受。
- Special issues are handled by guest editors who may send papers for review but cannot take the final decision, which stays with the journal editor.专刊由客座编辑组织，客座编辑可送审但无最终决定权，决定权保留在期刊编辑手中。