Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy presents original metallurgical processes and related research aimed at improving the sustainability of metal-producing industries, both from a unit operation and system viewpoint. The journal offers innovative approaches and solutions that minimize energy consumption; improve materials recovery, reuse, and recycling; and ultimately minimize environmental impacts. Encourages contributions that have an articulated and quantified relation to sustainability in the broader sense, supporting the field in its transition to climate neutrality and circularity. Places challenges and solutions in a broader context, such as policy, economics, product design, and value chains. Discusses new techniques, as well as optimization of existing processes, including utilization, treatment, and management of metallurgically generated residues. Serves as a catalyst for tangible change toward more sustainable practices in the metallurgical industrial sector.

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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