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International Journal of Sustainable Development Template

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About the International Journal of Sustainable Development format

International Journal of Sustainable Development is a peer-reviewed journal published by Inderscience, covering Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Environmental Sustainability in Business.

PublisherInderscience
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard/AGSM)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', International Journal of Sustainable Development, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSustainable Development and Environmental Policy Climate Change Policy and Economics Environmental Sustainability in Business Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Economic and Environmental Valuation
ISSN0960-1406
Citation impact (2-yr)0.45
h-index39
i10-index188
Total citations8,354
Top institutions publishing hereUniversité de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Journal websitewww.inderscience.com
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Papers published in International Journal of Sustainable Development per year

19
2014
23
2015
20
2016
32
2017
6
2018
23
2019
33
2020
30
2021
26
2022
68
2023
87
2024
38
2025

Citation impact of International Journal of Sustainable Development by publication year

151
2014
260
2015
145
2016
98
2017
81
2018
81
2019
319
2020
19
2021
29
2022
40
2023
51
2024
4
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in International Journal of Sustainable Development

Social sustainability: a catchword between political pragmatism and social theory

Beate Littig, Erich Grießler · 1 Jan 2005

The sustainability concepts of the "Brundtland-Report" and the "Rio documents" call for a combination of ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects of social development. This paper describes briefly, several models of sustainability and discusses social sustainability as conceptualised in selected sustainability indicators. In an attempt to remedy the lack of sociological theory, the paper proposes…

Governance for sustainable development: moving from theory to practice

René Kemp, Saeed Parto, Robert Gibson · 1 Jan 2005

In this paper we examine and elaborate on the central elements of sustainable development and governance, considering their interrelations as they have emerged from the core themes in sustainable development discourses over the past decade and a half. We argue that sustainability is best viewed as a socially instituted process of adaptive change in which…

Governing societal transitions to sustainability

Niki Frantzeskaki, Derk Loorbach, James Meadowcroft · 3 Dec 2011

Our paper addresses the inherent tension between the open-ended and uncertain process of sustainability transitions and the ambition for governing such a process. We explore this tension from two theoretical angles: the sustainability and the governance angles; by showing the implications of sustainability targets in governance processes and governance attempts. We propose transition management as…

Economic sustainability of the economy: concepts and indicators

Joachim H. Spangenberg · 1 Jan 2005

Every society can be described as comprising four dimensions, the economic, social, environmental and institutional. Each of them is a complex, dynamic, self-organising and evolving entity in its own right, making the coupled system one of tremendous complexity. For this system to be sustainable, each of the four subsystems has to maintain its capability to…

Contextualising harm in the framework of research misconduct. Findings from discourse analysis of scientific publications

Vasiliki Petousi, Eirini Sifaki · 1 Jan 2020

This article reports on research, which deals with dimensions of harm resulting from research misconduct, in articles published in scientific journals. An appropriate sample of publications retrieved from Pubmed, Scopus and WOS was selected across various disciplines and topics. Implementing discourse analysis, articles were classified according to the narratives of 'individual impurity', 'institutional failure' and…

International Journal of Sustainable Development template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does International Journal of Sustainable Development use?
International Journal of Sustainable Development uses Author–year (Harvard/AGSM) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', International Journal of Sustainable Development, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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