World Standards Day is internationally celebrated on October 14 each year. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of global standardization to the world economy, as well as promote its role in helping to meet the needs of businesses, industries, governments, and consumers worldwide. The 2025 theme is “Shared Vision for A Better World: Spotlight on SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals”. We would like to take this opportunity to honor the efforts of the experts who have developed voluntary standards within standards development and to share a list of notable articles published in Standards (ISSN: 2305-6703) covering the topics of sustainability standards, quality control, risk assessment, life cycle assessment, etc., which may be of interest.
Standards is an international scientific open access journal that publishes original papers, review articles, short notes, and communications related to standardization, inspection, verification, certification, testing, quality control, and rating.

“Effectiveness of YOLO Architectures in Tree Detection: Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and SGD, Adam, and AdamW Optimizers”
by André Magalhães Moraes, Luiz Felipe Pugliese, Rafael Francisco dos Santos, Giovani Bernardes Vitor, Rodrigo Aparecido da Silva Braga and Fernanda Rodrigues da Silva
Standards 2025, 5(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards5010009
“Advancing Social Sustainability in BREEAM New Construction Certification Standards”
by Anosh Nadeem Butt
Standards 2025, 5(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards5010008
“Effective Practices for Implementing Quality Control Circles Aligned with ISO Quality Standards: Insights from Employees and Managers in the Food Industry”
by Ana Beatriz Silva de Lima, Claudia Editt Tornero Becerra, Amanda Duarte Feitosa, André Philippi Gonzaga de Albuquerque, Fagner José Coutinho de Melo and Denise Dumke de Medeiros
Standards 2025, 5(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards5010006
“Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resource Management: A Critical Overview”
by André Lindner and Jürgen Stamm
Standards 2025, 5(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards5010004
“Sustainable Strategies for Improving Humanitarian Supply Chain Management in the United Nations Using Dynamic Capability Theory”
by Mirjana Mazar, Kenneth Gossett and Manish Shashi
Standards 2024, 4(4), 154-175; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards4040009
“Beyond Compliance: A Deep Dive into Improving Sustainability Reporting Quality with LCSA Indicators”
by Suzana Ostojic, Jana Gerta Backes, Markus Kowalski and Marzia Traverso
Standards 2024, 4(4), 196-246; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards4040011
“EU Environmental Protection in Regard to Sustainable Development: Myth or Reality?”
by Ivana Špelić and Alka Mihelić-Bogdanić
Standards 2024, 4(4), 176-195; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards4040010
“Benefit–Risk Assessment in Sport and Recreation: Historical Development and Review of AS ISO 4980:2023”
by David Eager
Standards 2024, 4(2), 66-78; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards4020005
“The Expansion of Data Science: Dataset Standardization”
by Nuno Pessanha Santos
Standards 2023, 3(4), 400-410; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards3040028
“Standardization: A Necessary Support for the Utilization of Sludge/Biosolids in Agriculture”
by Ludovico Spinosa and Livia Molinari
Standards 2023, 3(4), 385-399; https://doi.org/10.3390/standards3040027
