Sustainability Impacts Review (SIR)
Aims and Scope
The Sustainability Impacts Review (SIR) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that promotes high-quality sustainability research, practice, and theory. As a multidisciplinary journal, we welcome submissions from scholars and practitioners across all areas of sustainability, emphasising the unique challenges, opportunities, and impacts in the Global South. SIR publishes rigorous original articles, including theoretical analyses, empirical studies, and case-based research that advance understanding of how societies can achieve sustainable development. Our editorial mission is to foster scholarship that bridges theory and practice, facilitating collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to address global challenges.
Research Focus and Approach
SIR welcomes a balanced mix of theory-driven, policy-oriented, and practice-focused contributions. We encourage novel methodological and conceptual work as well as concrete policy analyses and empirical applications. We particularly seek original submissions that advance the theories and methods of sustainability science. We support interdisciplinary collaboration and believe that high-quality sustainability research must combine insights from multiple fields.
Topical Coverage
SIR’s scope is deliberately broad and interdisciplinary. We define sustainability in a wide sense – environmental, cultural, economic and social. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Sustainable development policies and practices
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Renewable energy and resource management
• Sustainable agriculture and food security
• Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services
• Social equity and community resilience
• Corporate social responsibility and ethical business practices
• Innovation and technologies for sustainability
• Business and sustainability
• Digitalisation and sustainability
• Green economics and circular economy models
• Sustainable supply chain management
• Sustainable finance and investment strategies
• Sustainable urban and rural development
• Sustainability in higher education
• Health and well-being in sustainable development
• Cultural heritage and sustainability
• Indigenous institutions and sustainability
• Gender equality and sustainability
• Sustainable water management
• Waste management and pollution control
• Ecolinguistics and sustainability philosophy
Commitment to Quality, Impact, and Ethical Standards
SIR upholds the highest standards of scholarly excellence, ethical integrity, and societal relevance. All submissions undergo rigorous double-blind peer review to ensure methodological soundness, theoretical rigour, and policy relevance. We prioritise research that advances knowledge and informs actionable sustainability solutions.
Authors are encouraged to highlight policy implications and practical applications, fostering engagement across academia, industry, and policymaking.
In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, SIR promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, responsible research, and equitable knowledge sharing across geographies and cultures. The journal adheres to principles of academic integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and respect for diverse perspectives, including Indigenous and community-based knowledge systems.
Open Access Policy
The Sustainability Impacts Review is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. All accepted manuscripts are immediately accessible and free for anyone to download, ensuring wide dissemination of research findings. It allows researchers, practitioners, and the public to benefit from the latest developments in sustainability without any subscription barriers. To support this system, an open-access fee is applied to accepted manuscripts. This fee is crucial for maintaining the journal's operations.
The fee structure is based on the author’s institutional affiliation and its classification by the World Bank into income categories. In other words, the fees are tiered to reflect the financial resources of the author’s institution, ensuring equity and inclusivity in academic publishing.
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Waivers and Discounts
All Article Processing Charges are fully waived until 31 December 2025, thanks to the generous support of our sponsors.
After this date, authors affiliated with institutions experiencing exceptional financial hardship may apply for a waiver of publication fees. All waiver requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Payment Process
Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will receive an invoice based on their institutional affiliation’s income classification. Payment must be completed before the manuscript is published.
Data Sharing
To facilitate and enhance data access and sharing for the benefit of scholars and practitioners, SIR encourages authors to share data, such as raw data, processed data, software, codes, models, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials, etc., that support the research findings.
Please make sure you thoroughly read and understand the submission guidelines
before submitting your manuscript. Adhering to these guidelines is crucial, as any
manuscript that does not comply with the specified requirements may be returned to the
authors.
There are no fees payable to submit in this journal. We are committed to providing a
barrier-free submission process for all authors. For detailed information about our open
access policies, please click here.