Resources Conservation and Recycling

Resources, Conservation and Recycling is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier in the Netherlands, founded in March 1988 through the merger of two earlier serials and devoted to the sustainable management and conservation of resources, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.4《资源保护与回收》（Resources Conservation and Recycling）是（Elsevier）出版的月刊同行评审期刊，1988 年 3 月由两种期刊合并创刊，致力于资源的可持续管理与保护，2025 年影响因子为 10.4。

Scope

• The journal welcomes research on the sustainable management and conservation of resources and emphasises the transformation processes involved in a transition toward more sustainable production and consumption systems该刊欢迎资源可持续管理与保护方面的研究，强调向更可持续的生产与消费系统转型的过程。

• Emphasis is placed on the technological, economic, institutional and policy aspects of specific resource management practices such as conservation, recycling and resource substitution, and of systems-wide strategies such as resource productivity improvement, the restructuring of production and consumption profiles and the transformation of industry研究重点涵盖保护、回收与资源替代等具体资源管理实践的技术、经济、制度与政策层面，以及提高资源生产率、调整生产与消费结构、推动行业转型等全系统战略。

• Published topics range from material flow analysis and life cycle assessment to the valorization of waste, the substitution of primary resources by renewable alternatives, the recovery of materials and energy from waste streams, and the efficient management of all resources including air and water, as in a recent study of which smartphone reuse interventions actually reduce new device production发表主题涵盖物质流分析与生命周期评价、废物增值利用、可再生资源对一次资源的替代、废物流中材料与能量的回收，以及空气和水等各类资源的高效管理，近期一项研究即探讨何种手机再利用干预能真正减少新设备生产。^[1]

• Manuscripts that report only laboratory experiments without discussion of the practical, environmental and economic implications are excluded from publication仅报告实验室实验而不讨论实际、环境与经济影响的稿件不予发表。

• A golden open access companion journal, Resources Conservation and Recycling Advances, shares the same aims and scope under an independent editorial board and a separate peer-review process该刊拥有金色开放获取姊妹刊（Resources Conservation and Recycling Advances），其目标与范围相同，编委会独立并单独评审。

• Authors may publish open access at an article processing charge of 4,820 US dollars excluding taxes, while the subscription route charges no publication fee作者可以 4820 美元（不含税）的文章处理费选择开放获取发表，订阅路径则不收取发表费。

• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, and the publisher reports seven days from submission to first decision, fifty-seven days to decision after review and one hundred and thirty-three days to acceptance该刊被（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录，出版方报告从投稿到首次决定为 7 天，送审后决定为 57 天，接受为 133 天。

History

• The journal was founded in March 1988 when two earlier serials merged, Resources and Conservation, which had begun in 1975 as Resource Recovery and Conservation, and Conservation and Recycling, founded in 1976该刊于 1988 年 3 月由两种刊物合并创刊，其一为 1975 年以（Resource Recovery and Conservation）之名创刊、后更名（Resources and Conservation）的期刊，其二为 1976 年创刊的（Conservation and Recycling）。

• It marked its thirtieth anniversary in 2018, and the editor-in-chief noted on that occasion that the lineage of the journal reaches back to 1975该刊于 2018 年迎来创刊 30 周年，主编当时指出其源流可追溯至 1975 年。

• Ming Xu has served as editor-in-chief since June 2015, and under his tenure the journal added a Perspective paper type and moved to a new editorial system in 2017（Ming Xu）自 2015 年 6 月起担任主编，任内该刊于 2017 年新增（Perspective）论文类型并迁移至新投稿系统。

• The journal instituted its Excellence in Review awards in 2016, a year in which its impact factor of 3.280 was the highest in its history up to that point该刊于 2016 年首设优秀审稿人奖，当年影响因子 3.280 为其时历史最高。

• Its impact factor rose to 13.716 in 2022 and stood at 10.4 for 2025, when the CiteScore reached 23.6其影响因子 2022 年升至 13.716，2025 年为 10.4，同年（CiteScore）达 23.6。

• The journal now runs twelve volumes a year, with volumes 212 to 223 appearing across 2025该刊现每年出版 12 卷，2025 年出版第 212 至 223 卷。

Editors

• Ming Xu of Tsinghua University, whose research covers life cycle assessment and environmental footprints, is the editor-in-chief主编为清华大学的（Ming Xu），其研究方向为生命周期评价与环境足迹。

• Chenyang Shuai of Chongqing University and Changqing Xu of Beijing Institute of Technology serve as managing editors管理编辑为重庆大学的（Chenyang Shuai）与北京理工大学的（Changqing Xu）。

• Zhi Cao of Nankai University is the special content editor and the contact for special issue proposals, each of which may involve up to three guest editors南开大学的（Zhi Cao）任专题内容编辑，是专刊提案的联系人，每个专刊最多可设 3 位客座编辑。

• The editorial team includes editors such as Gisele Azimi of the University of Toronto, Fazleena Badurdeen of the University of Kentucky, Andrea Hicks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ramzy Kahhat of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru编辑团队成员包括多伦多大学的（Gisele Azimi）、肯塔基大学的（Fazleena Badurdeen）、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的（Andrea Hicks）与秘鲁天主教大学的（Ramzy Kahhat）。

• Altogether about eighty editors and editorial board members work for the journal from twenty-two countries and regions, with the largest groups in China and the United States该刊编辑与编委会成员共约 80 人，来自 22 个国家和地区，其中中国与美国人数最多。

• Board members include Seiji Hashimoto of Ritsumeikan University, Gang Liu of the University of Southern Denmark, Helmut Rechberger of TU Wien, Ernst Worrell of Utrecht University and Timothy Townsend of the University of Florida编委成员包括立命馆大学的（Seiji Hashimoto）、南丹麦大学的（Gang Liu）、维也纳工业大学的（Helmut Rechberger）、乌得勒支大学的（Ernst Worrell）与佛罗里达大学的（Timothy Townsend）。