Futures
Last updated ISSN 0016-3287
Futures is published by Elsevier BV in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,370.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Futures concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0016-3287, 1873-6378 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,370 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,755 |
| Publishing since | 1910 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/futures |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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