How-To Guide to Submitting Articles for Publication
General Guidelines
Publishing research and project outcomes is appropriate for both the academic and the professional. Sharing experiences and new findings is vital to the future health of the floodplain management community. All of the association's members should consider publishing journal articles whenever they have the time to do so. Only by sharing our work can we extend the reach of the fruits of our labor. When developing an article, there are five key factors potential authors should consider before submitting it:
- Author's Rights
- Research Impact Metrics
- Altmetrics
- Author Identity Management
- Choosing Where to Publish
The following sections provide some general guidelines to facilitate author choices.
Author's Rights
In general, authors possess the exclusive copyrights to their works. Submission, and eventual publication, typically requires transferring certain rights to the publisher. Note that you don't have to register your copyright to possess it. The mere act of creating is sufficient to give an author the copyrights over their creation.
In particular U.S. copyright law gives authors the following exclusive rights:
- Reproducing their work in copies (e.g., through file sharing, photocopying, etc.)
- Distributing copies of their work
- Preparing transitional or derivative works based on their original work
- Performing or displaying their work publicly
- Authorizing others to exercise any of the above rights
If you work in academia, you may be particularly interested in retaining rights that will enable you to:
- Reuse your work in future publications, in teaching tasks, and in other common academic activities
- Deposite your work in your academic institution's institutional repository (e.g., UW-Madison's MINDS Repository)
Be sure to thoroughly read any copyright transferal documents sent to you by the publisher so that you know exactly which copyrights you are transferring. You can frequently negotiate with publishers to retain rights that are important to your future work.
Research Impact Metrics
Citations! Citations and citation metrics (a.k.a., Bibliometrics) are the typical tool for assessing how much of an impact your article is having. As an author there are two kinds you want to be aware of:
- Your total number of citations on an article-by-article basis. You can frequently keep track of thise through Google's Google Scholar Citations tool. To use Google Scholar Citations, you do need to set up your profile, e.g., Dr. Jett's profile.
- The Impact Factor of the journal you are submitting your article to. The impact factor is a measure the number of citations received by all articles published in a journal during a given year divided by the total number of articles published in that journal during the preceding two years. A tiny handful of journals (e.g., Nature [see below]) have very high impact factors. The average journal has an impact factor between 3 and 6.
Altmetrics
If citations and impact factors seem like an arbitrary method for determining the impact of your article, you're not crazy. Citations measure visability and popularity inasmuch as they measure impacts. This is a well acknowledged criticism of traditional bibliometrics. Across the past 15 years, a number of different metrics for estimating research impacts have been developed. These metrics are a more "black-box" method of determining research impact using algorithms that Hoover up multiple kinds of research products to estimate numerical rankings for researcher impact. They are primarily promulgated by projects like ImpactStory and corporations like Altmetric.
Author Identity Management
Beyond keeping your authorial rights in mind and considering the impact of your work, you also need to manage your identity in the wider universe of research article publications. From John Smith to Wu Jing, many names are commonplace among various cultures. As an author you want to ensure that you will receive the credit for your work. One of the best methods currently available to academics and professionals alike is the Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID). Similar in nature to the ISBNs and ISSNs used to track books and journals, ORCIDs facilitate
Flood Journals: Selecting an Publication Venue for Your Article
The following is a thorough but not exhaustive list of potential publication venues for prospective article publication. Prospective authors should consider the nature of the publisher, the potential journal venue's most recent impact factor, and that journal's authorial guidelines when selecting an appropriate publication venue.
Journal of Flood Risk Management
- Publisher: Wiley
- 2023 Impact Factor: 4.1
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Journal of Flood Risk Management provides an international platform for knowledge sharing in all areas related to flood risk. We publish flood related research with content ranging from leading edge academic papers to innovative applied content with the practitioner in mind. Our readers and authors come from a wide background and share an interest in managing the complex interactions that underpin the management of flood risk worldwide.
- Publisher: Wiley
- 2023 Impact Factor: 5.4
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Water Resources Research publishes original research articles and commentaries on hydrology, water resources, and the social sciences of water that provide a broad understanding of the role of water in Earth’s system.
- Publisher: Wiley
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: River Research and Applications is an international river science journal dedicated to the basic and applied scientific research of rivers. Our interdisciplinary papers show examples of river management, regulation and restoration in both the developed and developing world. Our special ARENA section provides a forum for new concepts and re-evaluation of existing concepts, allowing authors to explore new ways of considering river science and management through original research papers and other formats and styles.
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.2
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Hydraulic Engineering accepts original contributions that describe the analysis and solutions of problems in hydraulic engineering. Technical Notes may present a problem, without solution, of common interest. Topics range from flows in closed conduits to free-surface flows (canals, rivers, lakes, and estuaries) to environmental fluid dynamics. Topics include transport processes involving fluids (multiphase flows) such as sediment and contaminant transport, and heat and gas transfers. Emphasis is placed on the presentation of concepts, methods, techniques, and results that advance knowledge and/or are suitable for general application in the hydraulic engineering profession.
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Hydrologic Engineering disseminates interdisciplinary information in the field of hydrologic science and engineering. The journal publishes original research and practical applications related to water in natural and built environments. It covers fundamental and applied hydrology and emerging areas (e.g., surface water, vadose zone, groundwater, water quality, snow/ice and glacier, urban/agricultural/forest, and coastal hydrology; hydroinformatics, ecohydrology, hydroclimatology, and socio-hydrology). The journal encourages submissions utilizing analytical, numerical, probabilistic/stochastic, experimental, remote sensing, artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), and other data-driven approaches that advance hydrologic science and engineering practices and promote sustainable and resilient engineering solutions to real-world water and environmental problems.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.8
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Infrastructure Systems publishes cross-disciplinary papers about managing, sustaining, enhancing, and transforming civil infrastructure systems. Papers are expected to contribute new knowledge through development, application, or implementation of innovative methodologies or technologies. Civil infrastructure systems enable thriving societies and healthy ecosystems. Civil infrastructure systems support transportation; energy production and distribution; water resources management; waste management; civic facilities in urban and rural communities; communications; sustainable resources development; and environmental protection. These physical, social, ecological, economic, and technological systems are complex and interrelated. Increasingly, inter- and multidisciplinary expertise is needed not only to design and build these systems, but to manage, sustain, enhance, and transform them as well. Typical management problems are fraught with uncertain information, multiple and conflicting objectives, and sometimes numerous and conflicting constituencies. Solutions are both complex and cross-disciplinary in nature and require the thoughtful integration of sound engineering judgment, economic flexibility, social equity, and institutional forbearance. Papers considered for publication must contain a well-defined engineering component and articulate a clear contribution to the art and science related to infrastructure systems. Potential authors should consult the ASCE Author Guide for acceptable paper formats and article types.
Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 1.9
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering covers all aspects of irrigation and drainage engineering. Related topics of interest include: hydrology; hydraulics; environmental impacts; solute and sediment transport; soil salinity; water‐quality control; sustainability; water management and conservation; evapotranspiration; soil‐water flow; design, operations and maintenance of irrigation and drainage infrastructure; development and application of technology; and economics, energy use, and regulation in irrigation and drainage engineering. The journal encompasses theoretical, experimental, numerical and analytical modeling; new developments and results of research; as well as case studies and practical applications of engineering. Submissions are evaluated for their originality, technical soundness, advancement of knowledge, and development of engineering solutions to practical irrigation and drainage problems.
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Natural Hazards Review addresses the range of events, processes, and consequences that occur when natural hazards interact with the physical, social, economic, and engineered dimensions of communities and the people who live, work, and play in them. As these conditions interact and change, the impact on human communities increases in size, scale, and scope. Such interactions necessarily need to be analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes both social and technical measures. For decision makers, the risk presents the challenge of managing known hazards, but unknown consequences in time of occurrence, scale of impact, and level of disruption in actual communities with limited resources. The journal is dedicated to bringing together the physical, social, and behavioral sciences; engineering; and the regulatory and policy environments to provide a forum for cutting edge, holistic, and cross-disciplinary approaches to anticipating risk, loss, and cost reduction from natural hazards. The journal welcomes rigorous research on the intersection between social and technical systems that advances concepts of resilience within lifeline and infrastructure systems and the organizations that manage them for all hazards. It offers a professional forum for researchers and practitioners working together to publish the results of truly interdisciplinary and partnered approaches to the anticipation of risk, loss reduction, and community resilience. Engineering topics covered include the characterization of hazard forces and the planning, design, construction, maintenance, performance, and use of structures in the physical environment. Social and behavioral sciences topics include analysis of the impact of hazards on communities and the organizations that seek to mitigate and manage response to hazards. These analyses suggest implications for improving policy performance in disaster environments and mitigation of recurring risks, as well as significant issues related to the built environment such as land use, building standards, and the role of financial markets and insurance. Physical science topics include investigation of the science underlying hazards and the consequent interpretation of these findings for the design of human communities. Importantly, the journal features papers co-authored by researchers who bring a cross-disciplinary perspective to the complex, dynamic factors that contribute to understanding hazards in today's—and especially tomorrow's—world.
ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk & Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 1.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The journal will meet the needs of the researchers and engineers to address risk, disaster and failure-related challenges due to many sources and types of uncertainty in planning, design, analysis, construction, manufacturing, operation, utilization, and life-cycle management of existing and new engineering systems. Challenges abound due to increasing complexity of engineering systems, new materials and concepts, and emerging hazards (both natural and human caused). The journal will serve as a medium for dissemination of research findings, best practices and concerns, and for the discussion and debate on risk and uncertainty related issues. The journal will report on the full range of risk and uncertainty analysis state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice relating to civil and mechanical engineering including but not limited to:
- Risk quantification based on hazard identification,
- Scenario development and rate quantification,
- Consequence assessment,
- Valuations, perception, and communication,
- Risk-informed decision making,
- Uncertainty analysis and modeling,
- Other related areas.
Part A of the journal, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, will focus on the civil engineering aspects of these topics. Part B will be published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers focusing on mechanical engineering.
Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 1.8
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment presents activity and research developments in water issues, challenges, and opportunities throughout the developed landscape. The scope covers sustainable stormwater management and broader water systems interactions. Subjects include urban stormwater quantity, quality, hydrology, characterization, treatability, and impacts; water harvesting; urban water ecosystem services; sustainable urban watershed management; urban streams; combined sewer overflow/stormwater interactions; urban energy/water interactions; on-site/decentralized water and wastewater systems, life cycle analysis; and related policy, implementation, and economics. All papers are encouraged to have design or regulatory implications that are applicable to moving the profession forward.
Journal of Urban Planning & Development
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Urban Planning and Development covers the application of civil engineering to such aspects of urban planning as area-wide transportation, the coordination of planning and programming of public works and utilities, and the development and redevelopment of urban areas. Subjects include environmental assessment, esthetic considerations, land use planning, underground utilities, infrastructure management, renewal legislation, transportation planning, and evaluation of the economic value of state parks.
Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.1
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management reports on multidisciplinary and emerging issues in the field of water resources planning and management. Journal publications include research and practical applications that examine engineering, social, economic, environmental, cultural, recreational, and/or administrative aspects of the use, distribution, regulation, reuse, and conservation of water in natural and built environments. Topics encompass innovative technologies, policies, and emerging systems analysis approaches, applications, and practices for improved monitoring, modeling, digitalization, and management of:
- surface and ground water resources,
- water supply and distribution systems,stormwater, drinking water, and wastewater,
- ecosystem services and environmental water,
- nexus of water, energy, and agricultural systems, and
- sustainability, resilience, and adaptation of water resources and infrastructure to uncertain and evolving environments.
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, & Ocean Engineering
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.3
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering disseminates to the profession engineering and scientific advances made in the COPRI disciplines. The journal is a strong forum for civil engineering disciplines related to ocean, coastal and riverine waters as well as the interaction of these waters and the adjacent built and natural environments. This broad scope makes the Journal an ideal choice for the publication and dissemination of archival contributions dealing with important related topics. Topics include dredging, floods, sediment transport, tides, wind waves and storm surge, tsunamis, climate change, rising sea level, extreme weather events and other hazards that affect shorelines, waterways, estuaries, and ports and harbors, as well as efforts to mitigate the impact of such hazards. Of equal interest is the development and operation of offshore facilities and ocean resource utilization, such as renewable energy and ocean mining. Types of publications include original journal articles, comprehensive review articles, short technical notes, case studies of special interest to the readership, book reviews, and special issues on selected topics.
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.5
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Hydrological Sciences Journal is an international journal for the exchange of information and views on significant developments in hydrology worldwide.
- Publisher: MDPI
- 2023 Impact Factor: 1.9
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Systems is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on systems theory in practice, including fields such as systems engineering management, systems based project planning in urban settings, health systems, environmental management and complex social systems, published monthly online by MDPI. The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) is affiliated with Systems and its members receive a discount on the article processing charges.
- Publisher: MDPI
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Climate is a scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal of climate science published online monthly by MDPI. The American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) is affiliated with Climate and its members receive discounts on the article processing charges.
- Publisher: MDPI
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.2
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Hydrology is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of hydrology published monthly online by MDPI. The American Institute of Hydrology (AIH) and Japanese Society of Physical Hydrology (JSPH) are affiliated to Hydrology and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.
- Publisher: MDPI
- 2023 Impact Factor: 5.0
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Remote Sensing is a peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science and application of remote sensing technology, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI. The Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ) and the Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) are affiliated with Remote Sensing, and their members receive a discount on the article processing charge.
- Publisher: Springer
- 2023 Impact Factor: 64.8
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
- Publisher: Springer
- 2023 Impact Factor: 42.1
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment is an online-only journal publishing high-quality Review, Perspective, and Commentary articles across the entire spectrum of Earth and environmental sciences. Topics are broadly separated into the following themes:
- Weather & climate: the physical processes influencing the climate system and its impacts on natural and social systems (e.g. adaptation, atmospheric science, climate science, cryosphere, impacts, meteorology, mitigation, oceanography and palaeoclimate)
- Surface processes: the form, physical properties, composition, function, interactions and change in the Earth’s surface (e.g. biogeochemistry, biosphere, geomorphology, hydrology, limnology, pollution, and soil science)
- Solid Earth: the composition, structure, dynamics, and behaviour of the Earth’s crust, mantle and core (e.g. geochemistry, geohazards, geology, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology, seismology, stratigraphy, tectonics and volcanology)
To accommodate the interdisciplinary nature of Earth and environmental research, integrated Reviews are actively encouraged. Moreover, given human interactions with the physical environment, societal implications — be it from a sustainability, policy, or economic perspective — will also be featured.
Nature Communications Earth & Environment
- Publisher: Springer
- 2023 Impact Factor: 7.9
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Communications Earth & Environment is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio that publishes high-quality research, reviews and commentary in the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. The papers we publish represent significant advances that bring new insight to a specialized area of research. We also provide a community forum for issues of importance to Earth, environmental and planetary scientists, regardless of sub-discipline. Our scope covers all areas of the geosciences, climate and environmental sciences as well as planetary sciences, including those at the interface with ecology, sustainability and environmental social sciences. Primary research of interest to the journal includes important insights gained from field work, novel analyses of existing data, numerical or analytical modelling, theoretical studies or laboratory experiments. We encourage submissions that provide independent confirmation of particularly influential publications. The submission and review processes are managed by our in-house professional editors supported by our Editorial Board Members, who provide technical expertise across the breadth of the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. We are committed to rapid dissemination of important research results. Articles are published on a continuous basis to ensure swift communication of findings.
- Publisher: Springer
- 2023 Impact Factor: 18.3
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Understanding the Earth's history and its future evolution is becoming ever more important as the human influence on climate and landscapes, the oceans and the atmosphere expands. Nature Geoscience is a monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together top-quality research across the entire spectrum of the Earth Sciences along with relevant work in related areas. The journal's content reflects all the disciplines within the geosciences, encompassing field work, modelling and theoretical studies.
- Publisher: Springer
- 2023 Impact Factor: [too new]
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Water is at the heart of human civilization. Throughout history, societies have progressed by improving access to clean water for drinking, for sanitation and for agriculture, and by removing contaminants from water to reduce the effects on the environment and improve public health. Our modern society faces new challenges that require innovative approaches to our relationship with water: climate change affects water systems by increasing droughts and floods, which in turn reduce water availability, increase contamination of water resources and eventually affect both drinking and sanitation facilities; and the rising global population generates more stress on water resources and challenges for public health. Publishing monthly, Nature Water covers all aspects of research that are connected to this evolving relationship between society and water resources. We publish in the natural sciences (primarily Earth and environmental science), in engineering (including environmental, civil, chemical and materials engineering), and in the social sciences (economics, human geography and sociology, among other disciplines), with a particular interest in regards to interdisciplinary research. Our aim is to publish studies that will have an impact on fundamental understanding, on practical technological applications and on the potential for policy implementation.
- Publisher: Springer
- 2023 Impact Factor: 4.9
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Scientific Reports is an open access journal publishing original research from across all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering.
- Publisher: Independent
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: PLOS ONE is an inclusive journal community working together to advance science for the benefit of society, now and in the future. Founded with the aim of accelerating the pace of scientific advancement and demonstrating its value, we believe all rigorous science deserves to be published and should be discoverable, widely disseminated and freely accessible to all.
Frontiers in Environmental Science
- Publisher: Frontiers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 4.6
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Frontiers offers multiple article types to maximize your options for disseminating your work. Some article types, such as those that mention medicine, are section-specific. Only article types that appear in the drop-down menu during the submission process are available for submission to the selected section.
- Publisher: Frontiers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.9
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Frontiers offers multiple article types to maximize your options for disseminating your work. Some article types, such as those that mention medicine, are section-specific. Only article types that appear in the drop-down menu during the submission process are available for submission to the selected section.
- Publisher: Frontiers
- 2023 Impact Factor: 3.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Frontiers offers multiple article types to maximize your options for disseminating your work. Some article types, such as those that mention medicine, are section-specific. Only article types that appear in the drop-down menu during the submission process are available for submission to the selected section.
Environmental Research Letters
- Publisher: IOPScience
- 2023 Impact Factor: 6.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Environmental Research Letters™ (ERL) is a high-impact, open-access journal intended to be the meeting place of the research and policy communities concerned with environmental change and management. ERL is dedicated to bringing together intellectual and professional scientists, economists, engineers, and social scientists, as well as the public sector, industry, and civil society, all of whom are engaged in efforts to understand the state of natural systems and, increasingly, the human footprint on the biosphere.
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Environmental Conservation is one of the longest-standing, most highly-cited of the international interdisciplinary environmental journals. It includes research papers, reports, comments, perspectives and subject reviews addressing environmental natural and social science, and environmental policy and practice, informed by rigorous studies at local to global scales. The journal is comprehensive, including issues in human institutions, ecosystem change, resource utilisation, terrestrial biomes, aquatic and marine systems, and coastal and land use management. Environmental Conservation is essential reading for environmentalists, managers, consultants, agency workers and scientists wishing to keep abreast of current developments in environmental science. Papers selected as Editor's Choice are made freely available online.
- Publisher: European Geosciences Union
- 2023 Impact Factor: 1.6
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Advances in Geosciences (ADGEO) is a not-for-profit international interdisciplinary journal for fast publication of collections of short but self-contained communications in the Earth, planetary, and solar system sciences, published in separate volumes online with the option of printed publications (print on demand). The collections may include papers presented at scientific meetings (proceedings) or articles on a well-defined topic compiled by individual editors or organizations (special publications).
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
- Publisher: European Geosciences Union
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.2
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG) is an international, inter-/trans-disciplinary, non-profit journal devoted to breaking the deadlocks often faced by standard approaches in Earth and space sciences. It therefore solicits disruptive and innovative concepts and methodologies, as well as original applications of these to address the ubiquitous complexity in geoscience systems, and in interacting social and biological systems. Such systems are nonlinear, with responses strongly non-proportional to perturbations, and show an associated extreme variability across scales.
Advances in Science & Research
- Publisher: European Meteorological Society
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.5
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Advances in Science and Research (ASR) is the international journal of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) for contributions in applied meteorology and climatology. ASR publishes original contributions on (a) advances in understanding weather and climate processes and (b) the development of operational systems and applications of meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines. This also includes new challenges and the role of communication, education and training, and engagement with society for the profession and its practices. ASR-CAMC is an open-access journal for contributions presented at the annual meetings of the EMS and other related events. All manuscripts submitted to ASR undergo a rigorous peer review organized by the Programme and Science Committee (PSC). Further details are provided in the review section.
Journal of Coastal & Riverine Flood Risk
- Publisher: TU Delft
- 2023 Impact Factor: 4.0
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Journal of Coastal and Riverine Flood Risk is a completely free and open access community-based journal. All papers are rigorously peer-reviewed in a double-blind fashion. Its mission is to publish quantitative and qualitative studies on all aspects of coastal and riverine risks. This focus includes (but is not limited to) risk management and disaster mitigation, climate adaptation strategies, the forecasting of events, flood emergency response and post-disaster surveys, and reconstruction and planning. The scope of hazards covered includes events affecting coastal and riverine areas, including atmospheric, oceanographic, volcanic and seismic (as long as these take place close to the coastline, in islands, along rivers or underwater) events. These include, but are not limited to, tsunamis, storm surges, high-waves, river and pluvial floods originating from a variety of other phenomena, and flooding in (low-lying) coastal regions in general, or any combination of sources (compound flooding). Interdisciplinary topics that deal with the described hazards through a combination of engineering, natural science, social science and/or disaster risk management are welcomed. Studies can be related to the processes of the hazards, their impact on society, and how to deal with these hazards (through any parts of the disaster management cycle). Examples include the investigation and planning of structural and non-structural coastal and riverine risk management, sea level rise and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies. Case studies and post-disaster field surveys whose findings add value to the understanding of hazards and how to improve resilience to future events through build-back-better processes are also within the scope of the journal. Research conducted in and by researchers in developing countries is of great interest to the journal.
- Publisher: University of Minnesota
- 2023 Impact Factor: [too new]
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community is an interdisciplinary online journal that recognizes rivers in general, and the Mississippi River in particular, as space for timely and critical conversations about the intersections between biophysical systems and human systems. The project’s title, Open Rivers, speaks to its multi‐vocal and multi‐media nature (“open”), its attention to systems and components, stories and frameworks that make up rivers (“river” understood as a natural and human/cultural system), and to the genre of the work itself, a digital journal. Because of the inherent nature of rivers to disregard state and international borders, the title of our journal refers to more than just one river. We welcome contributions and conversations relating to other rivers around the world, as well.
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering
- Publisher: Kalahari Journals
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.1
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The "International Journal of Mechanical Engineering" is an peer reviewed journal. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for academicians, researchers and practitioners all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in all areas of Mechanical Engineering. Manuscripts are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3-4 weeks after their submission.
- Publisher: Hindawi
- 2023 Impact Factor: 2.2
- How to Submit
- From the Publisher: The Scientific World Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research and review articles covering a wide range of subjects in science, technology, and medicine. The journal is divided into 81 subject areas.
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