Journal profile · ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
ISSN 1381-2386 · eISSN 1573-1596 · Springer Netherlands · NETHERLANDS · Founded 1996
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change: CAS Zone 3 · Environmental Science & Ecology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.28; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,490; median 237 days to acceptance (100 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 84 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change is published by Springer Netherlands 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 Climate change impacts on agriculture, Climate Change Policy and Economics and Environmental Impact and Sustainability, together about 30.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change publishes significant research from a broad range of environmental, socio-economic, policy, and technology strategies to address the challenges of global change - in particular climate and environmental change. The journal provides a forum to encourage conceptualization, critical examinations, and debates regarding effective strategic responses and options to mitigate and to adapt to global changes impacting climate stability, ecological systems, and human habitats and security. In particular, it aims to invite integrated views and solutions, to advance understanding of multiple perspectives onto these challenges, including the interrelation and interaction among the strategic responses and options. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change provides a forum to review, analyze, and stimulate the development, testing, and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies at regional, national, and global scales, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set forth by the United Nations. The primary goals of this journal are to stimulate and facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogues, to contribute effectively to near real-time policy analysis and design, and to enhance the scientific underpinning of national and international programs, policies, collaborations, and agreements. As such, researchers may address questions like, but not restricted to: What technological, social, economic, institutional or other strategic and tactical response options are available and feasible to mitigate or adapt to the challenges of specific global changes, particularly climate and environmental change? How do intervention mechanisms work and how effective are they? What are their potential impacts including unintended consequences? What are the benefits, barriers, and uncertainty around the interventions? What instruments could be created and deployed to support, and what barriers hinder the efficient implementation of intervention measures? What could be the contributions from international and cross-disciplinary cooperation within this context? How do mitigation and adaptation strategies interact with each other, with the system of other social, economic, environmental or technological objectives that the relevant stakeholder communities have, and across time and space? For given interventions and relevant stakeholders, how is “relevant” defined? What can be learned and recommended from research a
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Editor-in-chief Hongbo DuanPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 13%); most named Japan 8, Mainland China 5, United States 4, United Kingdom 3, India 2 (38 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Climate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences11.8%
- Climate Change Policy and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.1%
- Environmental Impact and SustainabilityEnvironmental Science7.8%
- Forest Management and PolicyEnvironmental Science6.9%
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation PoliciesEnergy5.2%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementEnvironmental Science4.8%
- Flood Risk Assessment and ManagementEnvironmental Science4%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsEnvironmental Science3.9%
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 | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
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 | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar, RePEc
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
- 4.28LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.96LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.02LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56LetPub ·
- h-index
- 118OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,098OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 43.35%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 81LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 569,900Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,692 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 81 | 28 | 24 |
| 2025 | 84 | 33 | 286 |
| 2024 | 95 | 48 | 1,295 |
| 2023 | 52 | 29 | 600 |
| 2022 | 56 | 24 | 847 |
| 2021 | 49 | 20 | 1,037 |
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
237 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 153 days – 352 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 22 days (100 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 277 days
- Sample
- 100 articles with submission and acceptance dates (185 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,490 / EUR 2,690 / GBP 2,290 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Author–date
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access
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Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
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
- Springer Netherlands
- Country or region
- NETHERLANDS
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 1996
- ISSN
- 1381-2386
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-1596
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
What CAS zone is Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.28; CiteScore 6.1, h-index 118.
How long does peer review take at Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change?
Based on the dates recorded on 100 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 237 days (interquartile range 153–352 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. 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 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Author–date. 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 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change based?
Of the 38 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 13%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Japan (8), Mainland China (5) and United States (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change open access, and what is the APC?
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,490.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .