Journal profile · Environmental Science-Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Coasts
ISSN 2673-964X · MDPI AG · Switzerland
Coasts: fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 49 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Coasts is published by MDPI AG. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and Coastal and Marine Management, together about 40.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Earth-Surface Processes and Oceanography. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Why Coasts? Most of humanity interacts with the global ocean in a narrow strip with enormous economic, socio-cultural and environmental values. Many of the world's megacities are at or near the coast. Coastal regions contain diverse nature reserves on the land and in the nearshore ocean. Coasts are dynamic regions where sand levels and wave regimes vary over short (days) to very long (centuries) timescales. Human reliance on coastlines has increased and diversified to an expansive list of ecosystem services. Across the world, humans extract a range of commodities from coastal areas, including living resources, raw materials, agricultural amendments, and other base materials for construction. Coasts also provide an array of services, most notably storm protection and erosion control, but also things like water catchment and purification, carbon sequestration, maintenance of wildlife, and human recreation. Coasts under Pressure Coasts experience multiple threats from multiple sources acting at multiple scales of time and space. Major coastal hazards encompass devastating storm impacts, flooding, erosion and the global threat from sea-level rise. The captivating biodiversity of coastal ecosystems faces a multitude of anthropogenic stressors, ranging from wildlife kills at the individual level to massive habitat loss at the system level. Effective and proportionate management and conservation intervention aimed at mitigating and counteracting these threats must be grounded in sound science. Understanding Coastal Systems is Vital to Protecting Coast Our nations, societies, and species are intricately and closely linked to the condition of coasts to continue delivering the critical ecosystem services that they do: Nowhere else on Earth do we find such dynamic natural forces pitted against human actions intended to counteract and stabilise these forces. Because many coasts are naturally malleable modern ideas in coastal management should reflect this dynamic nature. Successful interventions aimed at sustaining and restoring coastal landforms, processes and ecosystems require us to truly understand how coastal systems work: this is the chief thrust of this journal. This understanding will come from many approaches and types of management, conservation, restoration and fundamental science. The quiver of coastal science will have a fascinating multitude of arrows shaped as field observations, manipulative field experiments, laboratory experiments, methods developmen
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Environmental Science-Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Italy 5, United States 4, Spain 4, Greece 4, United Kingdom 3 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Coastal and Marine DynamicsEarth and Planetary Sciences20.9%
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamicsEnvironmental Science10.2%
- Coastal and Marine ManagementEnvironmental Science9.4%
- Marine Biology and Ecology ResearchEarth and Planetary Sciences5.5%
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport ProcessesEnvironmental Science4.7%
- Marine and coastal plant biologyEarth and Planetary Sciences4.7%
- Aeolian processes and effectsEarth and Planetary Sciences4.5%
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric ProcessesEarth and Planetary Sciences3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | Q3 | 172/307 | 44th |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | Q3 | 74/106 | 30th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
GeoRefPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.81LetPub ·
- h-index
- 12OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.43OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 186 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 48 | 48 | 261 |
| 2025 | 49 | 49 | 230 |
| 2024 | 39 | 39 | 124 |
| 2023 | 27 | 27 | 46 |
| 2022 | 18 | 18 | 20 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 27.7 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 6.6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication
- 84 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,000 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers3, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted19
- articleArticle: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments …Length not stated
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Coasts will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and con…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
No maximum length restriction for manuscripts. Model summary
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
Coasts accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2673-964X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Coasts
How long does peer review take at Coasts?
Authors report an average review time of about 6 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Coasts?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Coasts based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (5), United States (4) and Spain (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Coasts?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Coasts is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists GeoRef; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Coasts open access, and what is the APC?
Coasts is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .