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Challenges in Sustainability

Acadlore Publishing Services Limited · Hong Kong · Est. 2013

ISSN2297-6477eISSN2297-6477

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2025-06-06). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.524

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.48

Total Worksi

172

Total Citationsi

1,041

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.84

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Focuses on environmental/resource science, sustainability governance, pathway and transition studies, and education for sustainability.

General Information

Country / RegionHong Kong

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2013

Annual Volume~ 27 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications172

Publisher OrgLibrelloph

OA Since2012

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Acadlore Publishing Services Limited

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2297-6477 / 2297-6477

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

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.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

151

2024

102

2025

2026

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.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

EcologyQ2

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ2

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ2

Nature and Landscape ConservationQ2

Global and Planetary ChangeQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Green & Sustainable Science & Technology

Scopus Categories

Nature and Landscape ConservationManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawGeography, Planning and DevelopmentGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sustainability and Climate Change GovernanceSustainable Development and Environmental PolicyEnvironmental Sustainability in BusinessEnvironmental Education and SustainabilityUrban Agriculture and SustainabilityEnergy, Environment, Economic GrowthGlobal Energy and Sustainability ResearchClimate Change Policy and EconomicsSustainable Building Design and AssessmentCoastal and Marine Management

Frequently asked questions about Challenges in Sustainability

Is Challenges in Sustainability a predatory journal?

Challenges in Sustainability was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2025-06-06). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Challenges in Sustainability?

Challenges in Sustainability is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.84.

Is Challenges in Sustainability indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Challenges in Sustainability is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Challenges in Sustainability?