Land | Seeking Partnership Within Australia and New Zealand

Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) is an international and cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal of land system science, landscape, soil–sediment–water systems, urban study, land–climate interactions, water–energy–land–food (WELF) nexus, biodiversity research and health nexus, land modeling and data processing, ecosystem services, multifunctionality and sustainability, etc., published monthly online by MDPI. More information about the journal is available at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land.

To further strengthen our global reach and foster cross-regional collaboration, we are actively seeking distinguished scholars, research institutions, and academic organizations across Australia and New Zealand to join our collaborative network. Opportunities include participation in the following roles and activities:

1. Editorial Recruitment

• Recruiting Section Editor-in-Chief for Section “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”;
• Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Land;
• Recruiting Volunteer Reviewers for Land.

2. Special Issue Initiatives

• Call for Special Issue Proposals and Guest Editor Recruitment;
• Special Issue Mentor Program.

3. Academic Partnerships and Collaborations

• Academic Conference and Workshop Partnerships
  We are pleased to offer support for your conference in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, marketing and advertising, a conference Special Issue, and award sponsorship.
• Institutional and Laboratory Collaborations
  Land is affiliated with the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), European Land-use Institute (ELI), Landscape Institute (LI), and Urban Land Institute (ULI). If you are a member of any of the listed societies, please reach out to your society representative to learn more about the benefits of publishing with us, including discounts on article processing charges (APCs). If your association or institution is interested in establishing a partnership with Land, we would be most grateful for your referral.
• Joint Research and Publication Initiatives
  Land is indexed in SSCI (IF: 3.2) and Scopus (CiteScore: 5.9). The journal remains in Q1 for both “Nature and Landscape Conservation” and “Ecology”, with its percentile rankings rising from 77th to 84th and 76th to 82nd, respectively. Please refer to the journal’s Aims & Scope for detailed coverage and to the Instructions for Authors for submission guidelines. We warmly welcome high-quality research articles and comprehensive literature reviews from early-career researchers and established scholarly teams.

4. Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP)

• List of Participants
  MDPI offers institutions and consortia the opportunity to join over 1000 institutions on our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), which provides transparency to the MDPI submission process and access to a unique institutional dashboard environment. Researchers affiliated with the below list of participants can benefit from a discount on article processing charges (APCs) across all MDPI journals.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Land Editorial Office if you are interested in exploring potential collaboration opportunities or if you would like further details or clarification. We look forward to hearing from you.

Land Editorial Office