Journal profile · Ecology
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
ISSN 1350-4509 · eISSN 1745-2627 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1994
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY: CAS Zone 3 · Environmental Science & Ecology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.74; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 135 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 60 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, together about 29.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology is a interdisciplinary journal for publishing cutting-edge research with novel concepts and broad significance on socioeconomic and environmental sustainability on the Earth. The aims of the journal are to promote sustainable development that recognises the balance of meeting development opportunities and conserving ecosystem services. Launched in 1994, the journal has reached a worldwide, diversified readership. The journal serves as a dynamic forum for understanding and advancing the scientific consensus on sustainable development. Subject areas that are directly related to sustainable development and ecological sustainability encompass the scope of the journal. The sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are considered by the journal. Priority research topics include, but are not limited to: • Energy options and their ecological impacts • Carbon-neutral strategies • Climate change mitigation and adaption • Global event governance • Food demand and production • Human well-being endurance • Urban health and resilience • Complex ecosystem coordination • Human dimensions in natural ecosystems • Ecosystem service management It is essential that selected manuscripts should provide new knowledge in the respective topic areas. Manuscripts can be presented with case studies, comprehensive studies, reviews, or in special issues. The journal publishes eight issues per year. Selected papers are published online before print. Our worldwide readership includes: researchers, consultants, scientists and engineers industry, business managers and policy makers government (central and local) and non-governmental organisations Preparation of manuscripts should be in accordance with the Instructions for Authors. Peer Review Statement International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Ecology
Editor-in-chief Guofan ShaoPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesEnvironmental Science11.5%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementEnvironmental Science9.6%
- Energy, Environment, Economic GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.2%
- Sustainable Development and Environmental PolicyEnvironmental Science7.1%
- Environmental Impact and SustainabilityEnvironmental Science5.9%
- Economic and Environmental ValuationEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Rangeland Management and Livestock EcologyEnvironmental Science4.3%
- Environmental Sustainability in BusinessBusiness, Management and Accounting4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ecology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, BIOSIS, Current Advances in Ecological Environmental Sciences, Environmental Abstracts, Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, Geo Abstracts, GEOBASE, Proquest (CSA), Lexis Nexis, Redaktion Dietrich Publikationen, CAB, Elsevier Biobase, World Textiles, FLUIDEX, Illumin8, EMBiology
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
- Impact factor
- 6.74LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 16.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 16.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2019
- 4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.77LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.77Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 35LetPub ·
- h-index
- 87OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,052OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.33OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 7.1%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 57LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 212,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,718 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 61 | 7 | 33 |
| 2025 | 60 | 16 | 307 |
| 2024 | 64 | 11 | 1,016 |
| 2023 | 64 | 12 | 1,742 |
| 2022 | 69 | 9 | 2,551 |
| 2021 | 54 | 15 | 1,906 |
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
135 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 106 days – 174 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 10 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 148 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (135 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)
- 18–36 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 4%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 48 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Article types accepted2
- research articleResearch ArticleLength not stated
- reviewReviewLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
No APC for non-open-access publishing. Model summary
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymized peer review; online submission via ScholarOne. Model summary
All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne.
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1994
- ISSN
- 1350-4509
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-2627
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 33, Issue 6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
What CAS zone is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Ecology / Green & Sustainable Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Environmental Science & Ecology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.74; CiteScore 16.7, h-index 87.
How long does peer review take at INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 135 days (interquartile range 106–174 days); authors report an average review time of 18–36 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 4%. 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 JCR quartile is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology.
Which databases index INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Embase and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY open access, and what is the APC?
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .