Sustainable Cities and Society

Sustainable Cities and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier, founded in 2011, focusing on the design and promotion of environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 13.3（Sustainable Cities and Society）是由（Elsevier）出版的同行评审期刊，2011 年创办，聚焦环境可持续与社会韧性的城市设计与促进，2025 年影响因子为 13.3。

Scope

• It focuses on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities关注旨在设计、理解与促进环境可持续且社会韧性城市的基础与应用研究。
• It encourages cross-cutting and multidisciplinary research on smart cities and resilient environments鼓励围绕智慧城市与韧性环境的交叉、多学科研究。
• Topics include alternative and clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed generation, and energy demand reduction and management选题包括替代与清洁能源、能源输配、分布式发电，以及能源需求削减与管理。
• It covers air quality monitoring and improvement, energy efficient, low or zero carbon and green buildings and communities涵盖空气质量监测与改善，以及节能、低碳或零碳的绿色建筑与社区。
• It covers climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments, green infrastructure, environmental footprint accounting and urban agriculture and forestry涵盖城市环境的气候变化减缓与适应、绿色基础设施、环境足迹核算，以及城市农业与林业。
• It covers urban design, planning, regulations and policy, social aspects and resiliency of cities, and smart city governance涵盖城市设计、规划、法规与政策，城市的社会层面与韧性，以及智慧城市治理。
• It also welcomes big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, critical infrastructure protection, water footprint and waste management, and clean transportation systems也欢迎大数据、机器学习与人工智能应用，关键基础设施保护，水足迹与废弃物管理，以及清洁交通系统。^[1]

History

• It was founded in 2011 and has been published by Elsevier since launch该刊 2011 年创办，自创刊起由（Elsevier）出版。
• It ranks third among 104 journals in Construction and Building Technology in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports and is in the Q1 quartile在 2025 年期刊引证报告中位列（CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY）类别 104 种期刊第 3 位，属 Q1 区。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 7.587 in 2021 to 10.696 in 2022, 12.0 in 2024 and 13.3 in 2025影响因子从 2021 年的 7.587 升至 2022 年的 10.696，2024 年为 12.0，2025 年为 13.3。^[2]
• It is a hybrid journal offering subscription and open access publication, the latter with an article publishing charge of 4,780 US dollars该刊为混合期刊，提供订阅与开放获取出版，后者收取 4,780 美元版面费。
• It is indexed in Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded and Ei Compendex, and its 2025 CiteScore is 22.3被（Scopus）、（Science Citation Index Expanded）与（Ei Compendex）收录，2025 年 CiteScore 为 22.3。
• Its acceptance rate is 7 percent, with a median of 2 days from submission to first decision and 139 days from submission to acceptance录用率为 7%，投稿至初审中位数 2 天，至录用 139 天。

Editors

• The Editors-in-Chief are Enrico Fabrizio of the Polytechnic of Turin, Fariborz Haghighat of Concordia University and Ryozo Ooka of the University of Tokyo主编为（Polytechnic of Turin）的（Enrico Fabrizio）、（Concordia University）的（Fariborz Haghighat）与（University of Tokyo）的（Ryozo Ooka）。
• The Special Issues Editor is Shi-Jie Cao of Southeast University School of Architecture, Nanjing, China专刊编辑为（Southeast University School of Architecture）的（Shi-Jie Cao），常驻中国南京。
• The Associate Editors include Socrates Basbas of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Simon Elias Bibri of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne副主编包括（Aristotle University of Thessaloniki）的（Socrates Basbas）与（Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne）的（Simon Elias Bibri）。
• Other Associate Editors include Brian Caulfield of Trinity College Dublin, Zhi Chen of Concordia University and Tommi Inkinen of the University of Turku其他副主编还包括（Trinity College Dublin）的（Brian Caulfield）、（Concordia University）的（Zhi Chen）与（University of Turku）的（Tommi Inkinen）。
• Further Associate Editors include Peleg Kremer of Villanova University, Becky P. Y. Loo of the University of Hong Kong and Tan Yigitcanlar of Queensland University of Technology其他副主编还有（Villanova University）的（Peleg Kremer）、（University of Hong Kong）的（Becky P. Y. Loo）与（Queensland University of Technology）的（Tan Yigitcanlar）。
• The editorial board has 91 members from 31 countries and regions, including Joon-Ho Choi of the University of Southern California and Benjamin Fung of McGill University编委会由来自 31 个国家和地区的 91 位成员组成，包括（University of Southern California）的（Joon-Ho Choi）与（McGill University）的（Benjamin Fung）。