PUBLISHERS
Please find below a general list of relevant publication outputs for sustainable consumption research
On sustainable consumption:
Journal title: Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Frequency: first issue in December 2020
Impact factor: n/a
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainable consumption scholars
Journal title: Sustainable Production and Consumption
Frequency: Quarterly
Impact factor: 5.032
Main audience: In principle, interdisciplinary sustainability scholars - heavily skewed to natural science
Journal title: Frontiers in Sustainability – Section on Sustainable Consumption
Frequency: Rolling publication/Section on sustainable consumption launched March 2021
Impact factor:
Main audience: ‘Transdisciplinary’ sustainability scholars
On consumers and consumption:
Journal title: Journal of Consumer Culture
Frequency: Tri-annually
Impact factor: 2.240
Main audience: Consumption studies – social science and humanities
Journal title: International Journal of Consumer Studies
Frequency: Six annually
Impact factor: 1.538
Main audience: Marketing and consumer behaviour
Journal title: Consumption, Markets and Culture
Frequency: Six annually
Impact factor: 2.232
Main audience: Marketing and consumption studies – social science and humanities
Journal title: Journal of Consumer Policy
Frequency: Quarterly
Impact factor: n/a
Main audience: Consumer behaviour, consumer policy
Journal title: Consumption and Society
Frequency: 2 issues/year
Impact factor: TBD (launch issue Aug 2022)
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars: natural and social sciences
Thematic focus in relation to consumption:
Journal title: Food, Culture & Society
Frequency: Five annually
Impact factor: 0.780
Main audience: Interdisciplinary food studies - social science and humanities
Journal title: Appetite
Frequency: 2018 – 2020 average 12 issues/year
Impact factor: 3.868
Main audience: Interdisciplinary food studies – social, behavioural and nutritional science
Journal title: British Food Journal
Frequency: Monthly
Impact factor: 2.090
Main audience: Interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of food-related research
Journal title: Energy Research and Social Sciences
Frequency: Monthly
Impact factor: 6.834
Main audience: Social scientific energy research
On sustainability (including sustainable consumption):
Journal title: Global Environmental Change
Frequency: Six annually
Impact factor: 9.53
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars, focus on social sciences
Journal title: Journal of Cleaner Production
Frequency: 2018-2020: 35 issue per year
Impact factor: 9.297
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars
Journal title: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy
Frequency: 2018-2020: bi-annual
Impact factor: 2.92
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars
Journal title: Sustainability
Frequency: 24 issues/year
Impact factor: 3.251
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars: natural and social sciences
Journal title: Environmental Innovation & Societal Transitions
Frequency: Quarterly
Impact factor: 9.68
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars
Journal title: Consumption and Society
Frequency: 2 issues/year
Impact factor: TBD (launch issue Aug 2022)
Main audience: Interdisciplinary sustainability scholars: natural and social sciences