Carbon Footprints (CF) is an international peer-reviewed, open access journal.
Aims and Scope
Carbon Footprints (CF) is an international, gold open-access journal committed to advancing quantitative and qualitative understanding of: Greenhouse-gas and air-pollutant emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, particulate matter, etc.); Low-carbon energy transitions and related technologies; Interactions between carbon, energy use, air pollutants, and socio-environmental systems. The journal illuminates the patterns, drivers, and mitigation pathways of carbon and pollutant footprints across natural, urban, industrial, and economic systems.
Carbon Footprints (CF) welcomes work spanning biophysical measurement and modelling to socio-economic analysis. Contributions should elucidate fundamental processes or demonstrate applied innovations with broad relevance beyond case studies. The journal is structured around four core sectors:
1. Ecosystem Footprints
Land-use change effects on greenhouse gases and pollutants
AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use) as sources and sinks
Coastal and marine carbon sequestration and ecosystem services
Water-resource management under carbon-neutral targets
2. Urban Systems
Urban carbon and pollutant accounting using big data and AI
Mobility and transport emissions
Built environment design for low-carbon resilience
Waste- and food-system footprints in cities
3. Industrial Systems
Life-cycle and process-level carbon accounting in manufacturing
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies
Low-carbon process innovation across industrial chains
Circular-economy and recycling-industry footprints
4. Environmental & Resource Economics
Economic evaluation of carbon mitigation, energy conservation, and pollution control
Policy assessment: carbon pricing, subsidies, regulations
Interdisciplinary analyses in energy, transport, health, agriculture economics
Ownership
The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.
Publishing Model
Gold open access. All articles published by CF are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.
Copyright and License to Publish
Articles in CF are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting CF, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to CF should adhere to CF's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to a rigorous peer review process and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.
Journal Information and Statistics
- Publication model: Open access
- ISSN 2831-932X (Online)
- Frequency: Quarterly
Indexing & Archiving
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