Regional Sustainability achieves outstanding score in 2023 Scopus CiteScore

Elsevier recently unveiled the highly anticipated 2023 Scopus CiteScore^TM. Regional Sustainability, an international English journal sponsored by Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved a high score of 6.0. This CiteScore^TM represents an increase of 62% compared to its 2022 score of 3.7. Regional Sustainability now holds an impressive position, ranking the 34^th among 279 journals in the Urban Studies category, 40^th among 306 journals in the Development category, and 118^th among 821 journals in the Geography, Planning and Development category.

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature worldwide, encompassing over 28,100 publications from a vast array of sources, including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. With contributions from over 7,000 publishers, Scopus spans numerous disciplines, including mathematics, physics, biology, life sciences, earth and environmental sciences, materials, engineering technology, humanities, and arts, among others.

CiteScore^TM from Scopus metrics offer a comprehensive, transparent, up-to-date, and freely accessible assessment of serial titles. CiteScore^TM 2023 calculates the citation impact of a journal based on the number of citations it received from 2020 to 2023 across five peer-reviewed document types, namely articles, reviews, conference papers, data papers, and book chapters. This score is then divided by the total number of peer-reviewed documents indexed in Scopus and published within the same four-year period.

Regional Sustainability is an international, peer-reviewed and open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality articles in a wide range of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects pertaining to sustainability. The journal plays a crucial role in advancing our understanding of the various dimensions of sustainability, including environmental protection, economic development, and social development. It publishes theoretical and research papers on resource development and utilization, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem function and services, climate change and it impacts, urbanization and informatization, population migration, social transformation, agriculture and food security, green economy, new energy development, and other topics related to sustainability. Launched in October 2020, Regional Sustainability has been indexed by the ESCI, Scopus, The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System, DOAJ, GEOBASE, EBSCO, CAS, CABI, CNKI, etc.

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