About this journal
Aims and scope
Climate and Development publishes research on the human dimensions of climate and development. Climate and Development is published in cooperation with Stockholm Environment Institute.
The journal aims to make analysis of climate and development issues more accessible and facilitate debate between the diverse constituencies active in these fields.
Climate and Development invites manuscripts on one or more of the following themes:
- Tensions, disconnects and synergies between climate change adaptation, or mitigation policy or actions, and development policy or actions.
- Feminist, decolonial, antiracist and other forms of critical scholarship in relation to climate change adaptation or mitigation.
- Implications of climate change adaptation and mitigation for poverty, equity or social justice.
Studies that focus on the following topics are particularly welcome:
- Decision making for climate adaptation at the household, subnational or national scale.
- Cities, urbanisation, informal settlements and climate change.
- Energy, energy access and development in the context of climate change.
- The relationships between sectoral mitigation actions and development.
- Migration, displacement and climate change.
- The intersection between indigenous, traditional or local knowledge and strategies for coping with and adapting to climate variability and change.
- Maladaptation in the context of climate change adaptation.
- Extreme events and climate-related disasters.
- The implications for development of existing or proposed climate governance frameworks or arrangements at any scale.
- The integration (mainstreaming) of climate change into development policy.
- Synergies and trade-offs between climate change mitigation or adaptation and sustainable development, from local to global sales.
- Financing arrangements for adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.
The journal accepts research articles, review articles and viewpoints. Contributions from and about developing countries are particularly encouraged. Research on developed countries is also welcome provided that the link between climate and development is the central theme.
We no longer accept manuscripts that are stand-alone Case Studies. All manuscripts must be linked with specific theoretical frameworks, describe how the study contributes to advancing knowledge, and demonstrate a solid review of the previous case studies on the same topic. Topics for which there is already a substantial and well-established literature, such as farmers' perceptions of climate change or farmers' adaptation strategies, are unlikely to be accepted unless there is a clear novel contribution to the literature.
Climate and Development operates a double anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 285K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 8.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.340 (2023) SNIP
- 1.149 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief
Lisa Schipper - Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
Jonathan Ensor - Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden & University of York, UK
Associate Editors
Sylvanus Afesorgbor – University of Guelph, Canada
Philip Antwi-Agyei - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Mucahid Bayrak - National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Nimesh Dhungana – University of Manchester, UK
Arabella Fraser - University of Nottingham, UK
Blane Harvey - McGill University, Canada
Alisher Mirzabaev - Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Minal Pathak - Global Centre for Environment and Energy, Ahmedabad University, India
Alcade Segnon - Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Dakar, Senegal; and University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
Thomas Tanner - SOAS, University of London, UK
Edmond Totin - Université Nationale d’Agriculture du Benin and Climate Analytics, Benin
Editorial Board Members
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson - University of Sussex, UK; UN University's Institute for Environment and Human Security
Donovan Campbell - Department of Geography & Geology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Terry Cannon - Insitute of Development Studies, UK
Edward R. Carr - Clark University, USA
Declan Conway - Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, UK
Siri Eriksen - Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Luis Fernández-Carril - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Joanne Catherine Jordan - University of Manchester, UK
Neil Leary - Dickinson College, USA
Matthias Garschagen, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU), Germany
Axel Michaelowa - University of Zurich, Switzerland; Perspectives Climate Research, Germany
Katja Michaelowa - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Aditi Mukherji - International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka
Yacob Mulugetta - University College London (UCL), UK
Luis Mundaca - International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, University of Lund, Sweden
Nidhi Nagabhatla - United Nations University- Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH - The UN Think Tank on Water); McMaster University, Canada
Patrick Nunn - University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
John Padgham - START International, USA
Sandra Paulsen - Institute for Applied Economic Research-IPEA, Brazil
Chandni Singh - Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India
Pablo Suarez - Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Netherlands
Farhana Sultana - Syracuse University, USA
Thomas Tanner - SOAS University of London, UK
Anahí Urquiza - Universidad de Chile, Chile
Sophie Webber - University of Sydney, Australia
Harald Winkler - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Robert B. Zougmoré - CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), ICRISAT West and Central Africa, Mali
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Open access
Climate and Development is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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The history of Climate and Development
Climate and Development is published in cooperation with Stockholm Environment Institute.
There is now incontrovertible evidence that climate change is happening, and that both its cause and its impacts are tightly linked with human development. Over the past decades climate change has increasingly been framed as a development issue, as well as an environmental concern. Climate and Development is the first journal dedicated explicitly to the links between climate variability, climate change and climate policy on the one hand, and development needs, impacts and priorities on the other.
The plans for Climate and Development originate from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which was published in 2007. The report contains several chapters that assess climate change in the context of development, as well as regional chapters on Africa, Asia, Latin America and Small Islands. In preparing these chapters, the authors were struck by two issues: (i) there is no single journal in which relevant papers are published, and (ii) most of the relevant papers were written by experts from the developed world.
Climate and Development aims to address both issues. First, its Aims & Scope bring together research interests that were previously dispersed over a range of different journals focusing on either climate change or development. The members of its editorial board have been carefully selected to represent the full spectrum of conceptual, policy-analytical and empirical studies of the interactions between climate impacts, mitigation, adaptation and development on scales from the local to global.
Second, the journal actively encourages submissions from developing-country experts. For example, it has introduced a manuscript category 'case studies', which allows for the publication of project results without presenting them in a theoretical framework. These project results might otherwise only be published in an internal project document and remain invisible for others, including IPCC authors. In addition, the journal has initiated a capacity-building activity known as 'writeshops', which provide training and mentoring to developing-country experts with limited experience in academic publishing.
The first issue of Climate and Development came out in March 2009. It was well received and was followed by a large number of new submissions, securing sufficient material to continue publication at least four times a year. By 2018, it has grown to 8 issues a year.
The publication of Climate and Development is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Stockholm Environment Institute, which also hosts the editorial office. Collaboration with the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) provides contact with a large network of developing-country experts, and is key in the organisation of the writeshops.
10 issues per year
Climate and Development welcomes high-quality proposals for special issues that can contribute original knowledge within and across the topics outlined in our aims and scope.
Crucially, we seek proposals that demonstrate how a special issue would add up to more than the sum of its parts.
Proposals for special issues will be assessed and reviewed by the journal's Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board. As with all content submitted to the journal, special issue articles will be subject to double-blind peer-review.
Please contact our editorial office if you have any questions: [email protected].
Guidelines for Guest Editors
The ProposalProspective guest editors must submit a special issue proposal which clearly justifies the need for the issue, clearly explains the contribution to knowledge it will make, and makes connections to the journal’s scope and mission. A proposal should include the following sections:
(a) Title
(b) Proposal description: This should include an introduction, the goal of the special issue and particular topics of interest. It is highly encouraged to highlight how the scope of the special issue connects with the aims and scope of Climate and Development.
(c) Guest Editors information and contact details. It is essential for Guest Editors to have experience of publishing work that lies within the Aims and Scope of Climate and Development.
(d) Tentative list of suggested authors and/or manuscript titles. Alternatively, if a Call for Papers is needed, please provide information on your outreach and promotion plans for inviting submissions to the Special issue
(f) Estimated timeline for manuscript submissions, and any preferred publication date, if needed.
Role of the guest editor(s)
Guest editors will be handling the peer-review process on the manuscripts submitted to the special issue, according to Climate and Development standard peer-review practice.
Climate and Development maintains control of the assessment of manuscripts’ scope, and the final decision post peer-review. Guest Editors will oversee the peer-review process, and provide a recommendation to the Editors in Chief.Guest Editors will be provided with guidelines, support and guidance for the submission system and peer-review process throughout the duration of the special issue.
In keeping with Climate and Development’s commitment to furthering equity in global climate scholarship, we can only accept Special Issue proposals from Guest Editor teams that include at least one individual based in a developing country institution. Guest editors play an active role in our approach to Special Issues, effectively becoming Associate Editors for the duration of the Special Issue. This, alongside the process of framing the Special Issue, includes securing contributions and authoring an editorial, building profile, skills and experience. Given the aims and scope of Climate and Development, we are keen to ensure these benefits accrue to developing country academics, who are dramatically under-represented in our scholarship generally and in Special Issue editorship in particular
Other information:
Each special issue should aim to publish 8 papers, but no less than 6 papers. Special issues with 3-5 articles will be published as a Special Section instead.
Before the completion of the special issue, the Guest Editors should submit an Editorial article providing an overview of the special issue. This Editorial article will be reviewed by the Editors in Chief.Climate and Development publishes special issues in two formats: either as one of ten issues in a standard volume, or as a supplementary issue additional to the standard run of ten issues. Supplementary issues will require funding and special issues may require funding dependent on their requirements.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a special issue please download the proposal form, complete it and email it to the editorial office at: [email protected]The editorial office would also be happy to answer any additional queries on special issues you may have.
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