Open Access
Open access

Sustainability

MDPI
MDPI
ISSN: 20711050
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
3.3
SJR
0.672
CiteScore
6.8
Categories
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Hardware and Architecture
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Computer Networks and Communications
Areas
Computer Science
Energy
Environmental Science
Social Sciences
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
Sustainability
Publications
87 379
Citations
1 107 235
h-index
192
Publications
68 984
Citations
1 021 572
Top-3 citing journals
Sustainability
Sustainability (164803 citations)
Energies
Energies (18475 citations)
Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal of Cleaner Production (18308 citations)
Top-3 countries
China (29319 publications)
USA (6991 publications)
Spain (5915 publications)
China (22545 publications)
USA (4732 publications)
Spain (4432 publications)

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Sustainability
164803 citations, 14.88%
Energies
18475 citations, 1.67%
Journal of Cleaner Production
18308 citations, 1.65%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
12776 citations, 1.15%
Land
12093 citations, 1.09%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
11534 citations, 1.04%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
10490 citations, 0.95%
Heliyon
8865 citations, 0.8%
Buildings
8737 citations, 0.79%
Water (Switzerland)
7029 citations, 0.63%
Science of the Total Environment
6929 citations, 0.63%
Environment, Development and Sustainability
6921 citations, 0.63%
PLoS ONE
6282 citations, 0.57%
Frontiers in Psychology
5759 citations, 0.52%
IEEE Access
5743 citations, 0.52%
Scientific Reports
5433 citations, 0.49%
Journal of Environmental Management
5196 citations, 0.47%
Agriculture (Switzerland)
5026 citations, 0.45%
Remote Sensing
4757 citations, 0.43%
Frontiers in Environmental Science
4708 citations, 0.43%
Agronomy
4526 citations, 0.41%
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
4425 citations, 0.4%
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
3673 citations, 0.33%
Ecological Indicators
3632 citations, 0.33%
Sensors
3500 citations, 0.32%
Sustainable Cities and Society
3378 citations, 0.31%
E3S Web of Conferences
3354 citations, 0.3%
Materials
3345 citations, 0.3%
Forests
3257 citations, 0.29%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
3034 citations, 0.27%
Business Strategy and the Environment
3003 citations, 0.27%
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2990 citations, 0.27%
Foods
2927 citations, 0.26%
Mathematics
2865 citations, 0.26%
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
2793 citations, 0.25%
Sustainable Production and Consumption
2785 citations, 0.25%
Construction and Building Materials
2765 citations, 0.25%
Energy
2666 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
2665 citations, 0.24%
Sustainable Development
2651 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Building Engineering
2613 citations, 0.24%
Processes
2576 citations, 0.23%
Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences
2481 citations, 0.22%
Cogent Business and Management
2416 citations, 0.22%
SAGE Open
2374 citations, 0.21%
Electronics (Switzerland)
2356 citations, 0.21%
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
2236 citations, 0.2%
Cities
2226 citations, 0.2%
AIP Conference Proceedings
2212 citations, 0.2%
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2199 citations, 0.2%
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
2159 citations, 0.19%
Land Use Policy
2101 citations, 0.19%
Plants
2033 citations, 0.18%
Education Sciences
2012 citations, 0.18%
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
2005 citations, 0.18%
Energy and Buildings
2005 citations, 0.18%
Resources Policy
2002 citations, 0.18%
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
1984 citations, 0.18%
Building and Environment
1953 citations, 0.18%
Atmosphere
1869 citations, 0.17%
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
1803 citations, 0.16%
Journal of the Knowledge Economy
1801 citations, 0.16%
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
1781 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Public Health
1768 citations, 0.16%
SSRN Electronic Journal
1718 citations, 0.16%
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
1702 citations, 0.15%
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
1693 citations, 0.15%
Applied Energy
1673 citations, 0.15%
Systems
1642 citations, 0.15%
Renewable Energy
1621 citations, 0.15%
Energy Reports
1530 citations, 0.14%
British Food Journal
1504 citations, 0.14%
Administrative Sciences
1504 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
1495 citations, 0.14%
Energy Research and Social Science
1440 citations, 0.13%
Handbook of Research on Global Hospitality and Tourism Management
1421 citations, 0.13%
Polymers
1413 citations, 0.13%
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
1393 citations, 0.13%
Economies
1376 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Plant Science
1371 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
1334 citations, 0.12%
Education and Information Technologies
1334 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Energy Research
1328 citations, 0.12%
Handbook of Research on Global Business Opportunities
1293 citations, 0.12%
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
1266 citations, 0.11%
Discover Sustainability
1250 citations, 0.11%
Chemosphere
1229 citations, 0.11%
Procedia Computer Science
1220 citations, 0.11%
Outsourcing Management for Supply Chain Operations and Logistics Service
1215 citations, 0.11%
Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
1195 citations, 0.11%
Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
1187 citations, 0.11%
Energy Policy
1187 citations, 0.11%
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
1166 citations, 0.11%
Communications in Computer and Information Science
1154 citations, 0.1%
Transportation Research, Part D: Transport and Environment
1146 citations, 0.1%
Ecological Economics
1141 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
1128 citations, 0.1%
Environmental Research
1126 citations, 0.1%
Results in Engineering
1117 citations, 0.1%
Remodelling Businesses for Sustainable Development
1114 citations, 0.1%
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MDPI
338240 citations, 30.55%
Elsevier
236819 citations, 21.39%
Springer Nature
154267 citations, 13.93%
Taylor & Francis
56680 citations, 5.12%
Emerald
44616 citations, 4.03%
Wiley
39226 citations, 3.54%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
32658 citations, 2.95%
Frontiers Media S.A.
29339 citations, 2.65%
IGI Global
18153 citations, 1.64%
SAGE
16613 citations, 1.5%
IOP Publishing
9489 citations, 0.86%
Walter de Gruyter
7951 citations, 0.72%
Hindawi Limited
7712 citations, 0.7%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
6980 citations, 0.63%
EDP Sciences
5601 citations, 0.51%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
3438 citations, 0.31%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
3381 citations, 0.31%
AIP Publishing
3129 citations, 0.28%
Cambridge University Press
2835 citations, 0.26%
Oxford University Press
2532 citations, 0.23%
IWA Publishing
2270 citations, 0.21%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2067 citations, 0.19%
IntechOpen
1978 citations, 0.18%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1761 citations, 0.16%
Research Square Platform LLC
1676 citations, 0.15%
LLC CPC Business Perspectives
1519 citations, 0.14%
IOS Press
1473 citations, 0.13%
World Scientific
1330 citations, 0.12%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
1309 citations, 0.12%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
1160 citations, 0.1%
SciELO
1019 citations, 0.09%
South Florida Publishing LLC
1008 citations, 0.09%
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
988 citations, 0.09%
F1000 Research
904 citations, 0.08%
Virtus Interpress
854 citations, 0.08%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
812 citations, 0.07%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
810 citations, 0.07%
Copernicus
788 citations, 0.07%
PeerJ
787 citations, 0.07%
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
773 citations, 0.07%
Scientific Research Publishing
765 citations, 0.07%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
692 citations, 0.06%
Center for Strategic Studies in Business and Finance SSBFNET
595 citations, 0.05%
AOSIS
588 citations, 0.05%
Pleiades Publishing
576 citations, 0.05%
JMIR Publications
535 citations, 0.05%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
520 citations, 0.05%
Tech Science Press
492 citations, 0.04%
Trans Tech Publications
476 citations, 0.04%
Canadian Science Publishing
422 citations, 0.04%
King Saud University
406 citations, 0.04%
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
376 citations, 0.03%
Index Copernicus
371 citations, 0.03%
CSIRO Publishing
354 citations, 0.03%
Thomas Telford
352 citations, 0.03%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
350 citations, 0.03%
CAIRN
348 citations, 0.03%
ASME International
343 citations, 0.03%
Academic Journals
338 citations, 0.03%
Mary Ann Liebert
313 citations, 0.03%
Publishing House Helvetica (Publications)
312 citations, 0.03%
Alexandria University
311 citations, 0.03%
The Royal Society
310 citations, 0.03%
Annual Reviews
307 citations, 0.03%
Ain Shams University
301 citations, 0.03%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
297 citations, 0.03%
BMJ
295 citations, 0.03%
SAE International
291 citations, 0.03%
Society of Petroleum Engineers
267 citations, 0.02%
American Geophysical Union
249 citations, 0.02%
Ubiquity Press
246 citations, 0.02%