SCI, the global innovation hub, is proud to announce the launch of SCI Sustainability, a Gold Open Access interdisciplinary journal committed to sharing groundbreaking research that tackles the sustainability challenges faced by the scientific industries. This is the first journal launching from a series of new journals under the SCI Innovate Open brand.
“By leveraging SCI’s established presence and extensive network, SCI Innovate Open will tap into a vast network of industrial, academic, governmental, and non-governmental connections worldwide to create a powerful platform for knowledge exchange and innovation,” said Nageen Matlub, SCI Publisher.
Representing a paradigm shift in academic publishing, the scope of SCI Sustainability is wide ranging, recognising that an interdisciplinary approach is the only way to meet the world’s global challenges. SCI Sustainability welcomes conversation and perspectives from a range of fields, including science, industry, social sciences, law, economics, and ethics. By embracing open science principles, the journal ensures that new discoveries are accessible to all, inviting a global dialogue on the critical challenges facing the world.
A standout feature of the journal is the integration of the Industry Advisory Board comprised of senior sustainability executives from diverse scientific sectors. This ensures that the journal's coverage of innovations is grounded in real-world challenges, facilitating large-scale and lasting change.
Led by co-editors in chief Professor Luuk van der Wielen, Bernal Chair of Biosystems Engineering & Design at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Distinguished Professor of Biobased Economy at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and Professor Nazia Habib, Founder and Research Director for the Resilience and Sustainable Development at Cambridge University, SCI Sustainability will deliver new approaches to global challenges that will have relevance in scientific development as well as economic and societal development.
“SCI Sustainability will serve as a platform for innovative approaches, applying a systems-thinking perspective to enhance economic growth and promote cross-industry collaboration. SCI Sustainability aims to break down silos, integrate knowledge, and create impactful policies and business strategies that deliver sustainable, climate-positive benefits,” said Professor Habib.
Highlighting the need for a new approach to sustainability, Professor van der Wielen added: “The urgency of transformation in energy, food, materials, and health systems requires large-scale, interconnected changes that will impact industrial models, economies, and ultimately all of us. SCI Sustainability is a key initiative to accelerate these change processes, aligning with SCI’s longstanding vision to bring innovation from the lab to industrial implementation.”
With thematic areas covering policy regulation, sustainable technologies and innovation, manufacturing and supply chains, and standards and measurement, SCI Sustainability will bring together the relevant voices across the sustainability community with the aim of creating an ongoing dialogue that brings about real change.
Dr Jon Hague, Head of Clean Future Science and Technology for Unilever’s Homecare Business, lead on SCI’s Sustainability Advisory Group and designated lead for the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) of SCI Sustainability added: “We know we need to work together to identify sustainability solutions that don’t just have impact across the commercial sector but deliver societal and planetary value too. With so many interdependencies, and the need to work at pace, we know the solutions will have to come from partnerships across value chains. Assembling a unique Industrial Advisory Board for SCI Sustainability makes a clear statement that the journal will seek to publish the best research in sustainability, wherever it is taking place in the world, to contribute to this mission.”
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Submissions
Submissions for SCI Sustainability are welcome with author guidelines available here. All article publication charges are currently being waived.
About SCI
SCI® is a global industrial innovation hub connecting industry, academia, and government. It is a charity whose mission is to accelerate science-based solutions to meet the big societal challenges. With members in over 70 countries, its headquarters are in London.
Established in 1881, SCI’s founders were scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs, many of whom went on to form large companies of the last industrial revolution. The SCI community has over $500bn of sales and invests over $30bn in research and development every year.
The SCI community is working on developing new forms of low carbon, renewable energy, such as hydrogen and battery materials, developing new medicines, such as new treatments for cancers, and advancing healthy and sustainable foods. SCI hosts and supports over 200 start-ups, publishes translation research and supports the NextGen of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.
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