Land

Land is an international, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal on land system science, landscape, soil and water, urban study, land–climate interactions, water–energy–land–food (WELF) nexus, biodiversity research and health nexus, land modelling and data processing, ecosystem services, multifunctionality and sustainability, and is published monthly online by MDPI. The International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), European Land-use Institute (ELI), Landscape Institute (LI) and Urban Land Institute (ULI) are affiliated with Land, and their members receive discounts on the article processing charges.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SSCI (Web of Science), GEOBASE, PubAg, AGRIS, GeoRef, RePEc, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Environmental Studies) / CiteScore - Q1 (Nature and Landscape Conservation)
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 16.4 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.8 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Companion journal: Drylands.
• Journal Cluster of Environmental Science: Sustainability, Land, Clean Technologies, Environments, Nitrogen, Recycling, Urban Science, Safety, Air, Waste, Aerobiology, Toxics, Pollutants, The Journal of Xenobiotics, Journal of Parks, Green and Environmental Remediation.