About Environmental Research: Food Systems

Environmental Research: Food Systems is a multidisciplinary, open access journal devoted to addressing the science of sustainable food systems in a way that bridges efforts relating to global change, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security and solutions in the broadest sense. All research methodologies and scales of analysis are encouraged; topics include (but are not limited to):

• Agricultural production systems
• Food supply chains and food waste
• Agriculture and food technology
• Food safety and biosecurity
• Climate change impacts, mitigation, and adaptation
• Land use, biodiversity, and ecosystem services
• Soil and water management
• Livelihoods and food security
• Food policy and economics
• Nutrition and dietary change

Environmental Research: Food Systems is looking to appeal to research scientists, economists, engineers, and social scientists working towards a sustainable, socially and economically robust, global food system that meets the demands of a growing world population. Articles that consider the whole “system” are particularly welcome.

• Broad multidisciplinary scope: A broad scope that brings together all communities working towards a sustainable, socially and economically robust, global food system that meets the demands of a growing world population.
• Open access: All articles are published under a CC BY licence, enabling immediate and perpetual access, and permitting the widest possible dissemination and reuse of content. IOP Publishing is currently covering all article publication charges, so the journal is free for both authors and readers.
• High quality standards: With strict editorial criteria aimed at publishing only work that makes a major advance in a specialist field.
• High quality peer review: Adopting the same high level of service as Environmental Research Letters (including Transparent Peer Review), all articles are rigorously peer reviewed by IOP Publishing’s global network of expert referees, supported by the journal’s diverse and prestigious Editorial Board.
• Fast publication: Committed to providing a fast, professional service to ensure rapid first decision and publication. Once accepted, articles will be accessible to readers within 24 hours with a citable DOI.
• Article flexibility: A comprehensive range of article classifications aimed at serving and representing a broad audience extending to academia, industry, and government.
• Pre-print friendly: Authors are encouraged to post on community pre-print platforms.
• Data and code: Inclusion of relevant citable datasets and programmable code are welcomed in line with IOP Publishing’s data availability policy.
• Society owned: IOP Publishing is a leading society publisher and profits generated are invested in the Institute of Physics, helping to support science research, education, and outreach around the world.

Environmental Research: Food Systems welcomes submissions of the following article types:

• Papers: articles of unlimited length that report quality original research with conclusions representing a significant advance in the field.
• Letters: outstanding concise articles, reporting important, new and timely developments. These articles should be deserving of priority review, and you are required to upload a justification statement along with your submission. As a guide, Letters should not generally be more than eight journal pages (or around 4500 words) in length.
• Topical Reviews: written by leading researchers in their fields, these articles present the background to and overview of a particular field, and the current state of the art. Topical review articles are normally invited by the Editorial Board.
• Roadmaps: broad, multi-author reviews in which leaders in the field discuss the latest developments and future research directions.
• Perspectives: commentaries on the impact of previously published work, or authoritative discussions on the future direction of a field, that are of notable interest to the community.
• Comments and Replies: comments on, or criticisms of, work previously published in the journal. The authors of the original article will be invited to submit a reply.

Environmental Research: Food Systems has no subscription charges and the costs of publication are fully funded by article publication charges (APC).

As part of our commitment to open science, IOP Publishing is currently paying the article publication charge (APC) for all articles published in the journal. The list prices shown below will not be charged if your article is accepted for publication.

*excluding VAT where applicable

**eligibility criteria can be found here

APCs only apply to articles accepted for publication; there are no submission charges.

There are no other charges for publishing in Environmental Research: Food Systems.

Paying for open access

Various discounts, waivers and funding arrangements are available to support our authors. Visit our Paying for open access page for further details.

Note that corresponding authors who are members of the Institute of Physics are entitled to a 25% discount on the APC.

We work with our authors to help make their work as easy to discover as possible. Articles published in Environmental Research: Food Systems will be available in relevant indexing services and databases when appropriate.