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Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
ISSN 2634-4505 · Institute of Physics Publishing
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; APC about USD 2,640; median 138 days to acceptance (96 articles, last 24 months); 84 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is published by Institute of Physics Publishing and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies and Energy and Environment Impacts, together about 23.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability™ (ERIS) is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to addressing important challenges relevant to every aspect of infrastructure and associated systems at all scales and in all geographic settings, and sustainability in their broadest sense, encompassing environmental, economic, and social factors. All research methodologies are encouraged comprehensively covering qualitative, quantitative, experimental, theoretical and applied approaches. With infrastructure and sustainability underpinning many of the most significant societal challenges, ERIS brings together communities extending across environmental research, engineering, the social sciences and humanities as well as policy influencers (within academia, government, industry and the civic sphere) dedicated to seeking innovative solutions to these issues. The journal covers infrastructure from broad and inclusive perspectives at global, regional, national and local scales, including current and emerging issues to wherever humanity’s influence extends, from single products to networked systems. ERIS publishes studies on the development, planning, design, production, use, maintenance, revitalization, and end of life phases of infrastructure and associated systems. To see further areas of interest please visit the Focus Collections page. ERIS focus collections are specially themed groups of articles that highlight exciting work conducted in a high interest or rapidly emerging subject area.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Environmental Impact and SustainabilityEnvironmental Science8.7%
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus StudiesEnvironmental Science7.5%
- Energy and Environment ImpactsEnvironmental Science7.3%
- Electric Vehicles and InfrastructureEngineering6.3%
- Building Energy and Comfort OptimizationEngineering6.1%
- Sustainable Building Design and AssessmentEngineering6.1%
- Flood Risk Assessment and ManagementEnvironmental Science5.3%
- Water resources management and optimizationEngineering4.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEWeb of ScienceINSPECPublisher website
Other: CNKI, Baidu, J-Gate, Scilit, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, Semantic Scholar
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
- 5.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.11LetPub ·
- h-index
- 25OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 90OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.68OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 81LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 374 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | 59 | 9 |
| 2025 | 84 | 84 | 162 |
| 2024 | 71 | 71 | 403 |
| 2023 | 62 | 62 | 573 |
| 2022 | 55 | 55 | 948 |
| 2021 | 43 | 43 | 604 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
138 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 108 days – 181 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 163 days
- Sample
- 96 articles with submission and acceptance dates (167 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 19 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous 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 | GBP 1,960 / EUR 2,245 / USD 2,640 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,515 / EUR 2,140 / GBP 1,865 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,775 / EUR 2,040 / USD 2,395 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,960 / EUR 2,245 / USD 2,640 | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Data availability
Supplementary material and data policy Model summary
IOP Publishing encourages authors to submit supplementary material and/or research data at submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and Permissions
Copyright and permissions policy Model summary
The following information is available to help you with our copyright and permissions policies. Copyright Reusing IOP Published content Reusing third party material in new IOP content Creative Commons Licences CCC Republication service STM Permissions guidelines Permissions FAQs
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is a fully open access journal. Articles are published under a CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence. Articles are freely available to everyone to read and reuse immediately upon publication, provided attribution to the author is given. Publication is funded by article publication charges (APCs). For more information on IOP Publishin…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
The following summary describes the peer review process for Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, using the ANSI/NISO Standard Terminology for Peer Review: Identity transparency: single-anonymous, double-anonymous (author choice) Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: review reports (author and reviewer opt in), author/editor communication, reviewer iden…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint pre-publication policy Model summary
IOP’s Preprint pre-publication policy allows authors to share a Preprint of their article anywhere at any time, subject to two restrictions.
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
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- ISSN
- 2634-4505
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
What CAS zone is Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Sciences / Environmental Studies / Green & Sustainable Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability?
Based on the dates recorded on 96 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 138 days (interquartile range 108–181 days); authors report an average review time of about 19 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.
Which databases index Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SCIE, Web of Science and INSPEC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability open access, and what is the APC?
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,640.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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: .