About Resources

Aims

Resources (ISSN 2079-9276) is an international, scholarly open access journal on the topic of natural resources. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications and short notes, and there is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their research in as much detail as possible, whether theoretical, empirical or experimental. Full details regarding methods must be provided so that findings can be reproduced.

Subject Areas

  • Natural resources

  • Mineral and geo-resources
  • Land and ecological resources
  • Plant and animal resources
  • Water resources
  • Energy resources
  • Food and bio-resources
  • Resource conservation, reuse, and recycling
  • Sustainable resource management, including economic, social, and environmental aspects
  • Resource stewardship, governance, and policy
  • Circular economy and new business models
  • 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.

Book Reviews

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:

© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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