As the year draws to a close and the holiday season approaches, we wish our editors, authors, reviewers, and readers and their families a joyful, restful, and fulfilling holiday season. May it be filled with peace, happiness, and good health.

This year, our journal Highlights of Sustainability has been accepted into Scopus. This achievement underscores the quality and impact of our collective efforts, which would not have been possible without the support of the scientific community. We are committed to maintaining this open platform and disseminating high-quality scientific knowledge to serve the global scientific community.

Happy holidays to all, and we look forward to continuing our successful collaboration and celebrating even more milestones.

Highlights of Science
Barcelona, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Highlights of Sustainability (ISSN 2696-628X) has been accepted for inclusion in the Scopus database. Soon, we will submit articles published in our journal to Scopus.

Scopus is a trusted, source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts who are recognized leaders in their fields. Acceptance for inclusion in Scopus is a significant milestone for establishing the journal. It recognizes the valuable contributions from our authors, the rigorous editorial work by our editors, and the diligent peer review by our referees.

We take this opportunity to thank all of our authors, editors,  and reviewers for their trust and support.

The holiday season is coming. We thank our editors, authors, reviewers, and readers for their trust and support throughout the year. Their invaluable contributions helped a lot to build our high quality open platform for the scientific community.

Happy holidays to all and look forward to working together in the coming year!

Highlights of Science
23 December 2023

We are pleased to announce that Highlights of Sustainability has been accepted for inclusion in the ERIH PLUS database and the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (placed at Scientific Level 1).

The Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, often known as the Norwegian Register, is an official Norwegian list consisting of publication channels which are considered to be scientific. While Level 1 are publication channels considered to satisfy the minimum requirement to be counted as scientific (external peer review, scientific editorial board and minimum national authorship).

ERIH PLUS is an academic journal index for the HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) society in Europe.

The holiday season is coming. We take this opportunity to thank all of our editors, authors, and reviewers for their trust and support throughout the year. Their invaluable contributions helped a lot to build our high quality open platform for the scientific community.

Happy holidays to all and look forward to working together in the coming year!

Highlights of Science
22 December 2022

Hossein Bonakdari, Ph.D., P.Eng., earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Caen-France. He has worked for several organizations, most recently as a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

His areas of specialization and interest include water resources management, hydrological modelling, artificial intelligence, sustainable development and time series. His research has been published in more than 270 papers in international journals (h-index = 46). He published two books and has more than 150 presentations at national and international conferences. He has secured several external research funding sponsored by the government and related water resources companies/industries. He is ranked among the top 2.5% of the world's top researchers on ResearchGate. In 2020 and 2021, Dr. Bonakdari was classified in the list of 2% of the most influential people of science in the world.

Fausto Cavallaro, currently is a professor of energy resources and sustainability management at University of Molise (Italy), referee of ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) and for AVA (the Italian Higher Education Quality Assurance system), and delegate of University of Molise for the RUS (Italian Network of Universities for Sustainable Development) promoted by the Conference of the Italian Rectors (CRUI).

His research interests are in the areas of sustainability assessment, circular economy, renewable energy sources, intuitionistic fuzzy multicriteria analysis, inference fuzzy sets and machine learning. His work has appeared in Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Energy, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, International Journal of Energy Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Science of the Total Environment, etc.

Open Peer Review makes the traditional closed review process transparent. By publishing the reviews, readers can see the concerns raised by peer reviewers, and how authors addressed them.

Publishing signed reviews also helps recognize the peer-review contributions by reviewers.

At Highlights of Science, authors have the choice to decide whether to participate in Open Peer Review process when submitting their manuscript. When they choose to do so, all the reviews and their responses to reviewers will be published alongside the paper, if it is accepted after peer review.

For manuscripts opt-in Open Peer Review, the reviews will be published with reviewers' identify protected. However, if reviewers choose to sign the reviews, their name and affiliation will appear on the reviews page.

The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact features 10 action points that publishers, publishing associations and others can commit to undertaking in order to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Signatories aspire to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the SDGs, publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop and inspire action in that direction.

Highlights of Science was founded as a full Open Access publisher with its first journal titled Highlights of Sustainability, aiming at promoting the world's sustainable development. By joining the SGD Publisher Compact, Highlights of Science fully supports the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

For more information about this program, please refer to SDG Publishers Compact. 

We are pleased to announce that the open access journal Highlights of Sustainability (ISSN 2696-628X) is now open to receive submissions.

Highlights of Sustainability focuses on environmental, economic, social as well as cultural, technological, and political fields about sustainability and sustainable development. The Aims and Scope are given at https://www.hos.pub/ho/sustainability

Submit you work here.

Highlights of Sustainability Editorial Office