About Resources
Aims
Resources (ISSN 2079-9276) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on natural resources published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and communications, and there is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their research, whether theoretical, empirical or experimental, with sufficient detail to support transparency and reproducibility, while ensuring that submissions provide clear scientific contributions and generalizable insights. Detailed methodological descriptions are encouraged to support this aim, but submissions must be anchored in clearly defined research questions, a coherent analytical framework, and findings with relevance beyond a single project or site.
Scope
The journal fundamentally deals with research relating to natural resources, their production, management and processing, and how they can be made available to society in ways that reduce environmental burdens. This is a broad scope, as there are many types of natural resources—and post-processed, residual, and waste materials that can substitute for them. We accept papers that primarily consider a resource perspective. That means studies that consider a resource and analyze or measure its flows and accessibility to society in ways that generate transferable insight, including the social burdens and impacts of resource provision on the environment and economy. We accept papers covering the following:
- Mineral and geo-resources;
- Land, soil and ecological resources;
- Bioresources from agri-food, forestry, and other sectors;
- Water resources;
- Energy resources;
- Resource conservation;
- Resource stewardship, governance, and policy;
- Reuse and recycling of secondary resources and their implications for natural resource systems;
- Sustainable resource management, including economic, social, and environmental aspects;
- Circular economy and new business models for resource management;
- Modeling resource flows and impacts, including via material flow analysis and life cycle assessment.
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add
high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate
authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in
such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.
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Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.
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Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Resources will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:
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