Journal profile · ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Global Environment
ISSN 1973-3739 · White Horse Press
Global Environment: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; 31 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Global Environment is published by White Horse Press and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are American Environmental and Regional History, Geographies of human-animal interactions and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, together about 24.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Editor-in-chief Mauro AgnolettiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 6%); most named Italy 11, United States 6, Mainland China 2, India 2, Germany 2 (32 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- American Environmental and Regional HistoryEnvironmental Science9.7%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences7.9%
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.7%
- Water Governance and InfrastructureSocial Sciences6.4%
- Transboundary Water Resource ManagementSocial Sciences5.5%
- Rangeland Management and Livestock EcologyEnvironmental Science4.7%
- Global Maritime and Colonial HistoriesSocial Sciences4.7%
- Ecocriticism and Environmental LiteratureArts and Humanities4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
| Minor | History | Zone 4 |
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
EBSCOPublisher 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
- 0.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.16LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.15LetPub ·
- h-index
- 16OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 41OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.4OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 71.64%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 495 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37 | 37 | 1 |
| 2025 | 31 | 31 | 16 |
| 2024 | 31 | 31 | 23 |
| 2023 | 28 | 4 | 34 |
| 2022 | 34 | 7 | 85 |
| 2021 | 32 | 3 | 47 |
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
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 39 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| 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)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 100–150 words
- Keywords
- 4–5
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability
GDPR compliance. Model summary
The publishers comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Originality requirement. Model summary
Articles must be original and must not have been published elsewhere, in part or in full.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Global Environment is published on an open access basis from 2025–2027 through a grant from the KOALA consortium, plus support from subscribers (who receive extra benefits). Contributors retain copyright in their work and allow it to be published by White Horse Press under a CC BY 4.0 license. All articles published in the journal are made immediately available worldwide via LUP (https://liverpool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
No author fees to publish. Model summary
Authors do not need to pay any fees to publish in Global Environment.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES
Double-blind peer review using external, independent experts. Model summary
Peer reviewed articles in Global Environment undergo double-blind peer review, using external, independent experts (some, but by no means all of whom of who may be members of the general editorial board, but none of whom are on the journal's executive editorial team). The normal timeline for peer review is 3 months or less and we ask that authors are prompt in submitting revisions, post-review. Th…
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
- White Horse Press
- ISSN
- 1973-3739
- Print ISSN
- 2053-7352
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Global Environment
What CAS zone is Global Environment in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Global Environment is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What are the manuscript requirements of Global Environment?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 100–150 words; Keywords: 4–5. 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 Global Environment based?
Of the 32 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (11), United States (6) and Mainland China (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Global Environment?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Global Environment is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Global Environment open access, and what is the APC?
Global Environment is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .