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Journal of Cleaner Production

  • ISSN: 0959-6526

Next planned ship date: March 25, 2024

  • 5 Year impact factor: 11
  • Impact factor: 11.1

The Journal of Cleaner Production is an international, transdisciplinary journal focusing on Cleaner Production, Environmental, and Sustainability research and practice. Th… Read more

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The Journal of Cleaner Production is an international, transdisciplinary journal focusing on Cleaner Production, Environmental, and Sustainability research and practice. Through our published articles, we aim at helping societies become more sustainable.

'Cleaner Production' is a concept that aims at preventing the production of waste, while increasing efficiencies in the uses of energy, water, resources, and human capital.

The Journal of Cleaner Production serves as a platform for addressing and discussing theoretical and practical cleaner production, encompassing environmental, and sustainability issues in corporations, governments, education institutions, regions, and societies.

Subject areas include, but are not limited to:

Cleaner production and technical processes

Sustainable Development and Sustainability

Sustainable Consumption

Environmental and sustainability assessment

Sustainable Products and Services

Corporate sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Education for Sustainable Development

Governance, legislation, and policy for sustainability



For a full list of topics, please have a look here.

To ensure homogeneous peer review standards and to help direct authors to the editors with the best expertise to handle their submission, we have launched a family of high-quality gold open access journals that jointly cover the sustainability discipline. Good niche papers may-be redirected from the Journal of Cleaner Production to one of these disciplinary companion journals of the Cleaner brand. Papers that are transferred to these companion journals will be handled by a team expert editors and reviewers providing authors with constructive reviews and well-informed decisions.
The Journal of Cleaner Production has the following companion titles:

Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption

Cleaner Chemical Engineering

Cleaner Energy Systems

Cleaner Engineering and Technology

Cleaner Environmental Systems

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain

Cleaner Materials

Cleaner Production Letters

Cleaner Waste Systems

Cleaner Water