The Global NEST Journal is an open access journal that publishes original research articles, short papers and critical reviews on all aspects of Environmental Science and Technology. These comprise the following thematic areas and subtopics:
- Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
- Water treatment
- Wastewater treatment
- Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Water and wastewater reuse
- Desalination
- Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE)
- Sustainable water resources management with nature-based solutions
- Microplastics & Nanoplastics in water and wastewater treatment
- Emerging pollutants in water and wastewater treatment
- Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
- Circular product design: design out waste
- Reuse and resources recovery
- Chemical recycling uptake
- Circular Economy in Manufacturing and Industrial Processes
- Circular Economy in Agriculture and Food Systems
- Bioplastics
- Circular economy and industrial symbiosis
- Sustainable production and management of biomass
- ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and circular economy
- Environmental Biotechnology and Bioenergy
- Sustainable Energy
- Carbon capture and storage
- Generation, storage, and conversion
- Energy efficiency and distribution
- Energy economics
- Wind energy
- Geothermal energy
- Solar energy
- Techno-socio-economic aspects of renewable energy sources
- Affordable and clean energy (SDG 7)
- Solid waste management
- Solid waste management
- Food waste and food loss
- Hazardous waste management
- Biowaste
- 3Rs and energy recovery in industrial waste management
- Electric and electronic waste
- Waste Strategies Development
- End of waste criteria
- Waste-to-energy
- Plastics management
- Environmental management and policy
- Spatial environmental planning
- Environmental impacts of tourism and sustainable tourism development
- Marine environment and coastal management
- Life cycle analysis (LCA)
- Smart cities
- Citizen Science in Environmental Monitoring
- Biodiversity conservation
- Biodiversity offsets
- Ecological effects of environmental change
- Agroforestry, Forest and Agricultural Sustainability
- Forest ecosystems
- Environmental pollution
- Air pollution
- Environmental odour, monitoring and control
- Heavy metals in the environment
- Biomonitoring
- Emerging pollutants: occurrence, fate, analysis
- Urban environment and health
- Pollution control and contaminated sites
- Drinking water safety
- Antibiotic resistance
- Environmental exposures and human health
- Plastic pollution quantification and monitoring
- Hydrology and Water Resources Management
- Process understanding through innovative sensors and remote sensing
- Μodel hypothesis testing, diagnostics, and causality
- River systems in diverse climates and environments
- Estimation and prediction under past and future conditions (climate, population, land use change)
- Prediction in ungauged basins and prediction under uncertainty
- Operational and impact-based forecasting, and data assimilation
- Floods, Droughts and Water scarcity
- Water and climate services - challenges and user-tailored developments
- Water policy, Management and Society
- Water management in arid communities/areas
- Water, Energy and/or Food Nexus
- Climate change
- Climate change impacts, vulnerability and risks
- Climate change adaptation and resilience
- Climate finance
- Ozone depleting substances and climate change
- Climate emergency: priorities and strategies
- Natural disasters: prevention, mitigation and management
- Vulnerability of infrastructures to climate change
Submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editor-in Chief and the Managing Editor and are assigned to Associate Editors who oversee the review process. They are selected after rigorous peer review by at least two reviewers who evaluate the significance, originality and suitability for publication.
Articles submitted to Global NEST Journal benefit from its broad scope and readership. We aim for a turnaround time of 4 weeks from submission to first decision.
Global NEST Journal is addressed to professionals in Academic, Consulting Offices, Government Agencies and Organisations, as well as others responsible for the investigations, evaluation of complicated environmental issues of global interest.
The 2024 Scopus CiteScore for the Global NEST Journal is 2.36. It is also ranked in the Q3 quartile for Environmental Science (miscellaneous).
Key metrics:
- H-index: 41
- Scimago Journal and Country Rank (Scimago) - SJR: 0.250 (Q3) -
- SNIP score: 0.48
For the year 2024, the IF for Global NEST Journal is 1.5
Journal Impact Factor (JIF):
Scimago Journal and Country Rank (Scimago) provides information on the journal's H-index and SJR, while Researcher.Life lists the CiteScore and quartile.[EK1] Web of Science Journal Info lists the JIF.
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