Instructions for Authors
Submission Instructions
For the 9th World Sustainability Forum, we seek proposals for session streams, sessions, and presentations of papers and posters. Submissions should aim to foster research, networking, and debates in science and technology, the life sciences, and the social sciences, as well as fruitful exchanges between academia and the public, civic, or private sectors.
Submissions can be made for four types of contributions:
1) Session stream
2) Session
3) Paper presentation
4) Poster presentation
Submission deadline: 13 July 2021
All panel abstracts, paper abstracts, posters, and presentations will be listed in the conference programme as open access on sciforum.net. Accepted abstracts submitted after the deadline may not appear in the final programme.
How to Submit a Session Stream
A session stream consists of at least two sequential sessions. Submit a 500-word abstract in English that includes the title, focus, and purpose of your session stream. Also include the focus, title, and purpose of each session. For each session, provide the names of at least two presenters and their email addresses. Include your name, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address. Submit your session stream abstract to wsf@mdpi.com.
Please note that you will handle the technical aspects of your proposed Session/Session stream. Your session can be held on the platform of your choice (i.e. Zoom, Teams, etc.). However, the sessions have to be held during the 3 days of the conference (from 13 September to 15 September 2021).
How to Submit a Session
A session consists of between three and six papers, and it lasts between 40 and 90 minutes. Submit a 300-word abstract in English that includes the title, focus, and purpose of your proposed session. Provide the names of at least two presenters and their email addresses. Session applications without paper presenters will not be considered. Include your name, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address. Submit your session abstract to wsf@mdpi.com.
Please note that you will handle the technical aspects of your proposed Session/Session stream. Your session can be held on the platform of your choice (i.e. Zoom, Teams, etc.). However, the sessions have to be held during the 3 days of the conference (from 13 September to 15 September 2021).
How to Submit a Paper Presentation
Create an account on Sciforum.net and follow the link “Submit a new abstract” in User Home. Submit a 300-word abstract in English that includes the title, focus, and main contributions of your paper. For empirical presentations, include methodological details. Provide your name, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address.
How to Submit a Poster Presentation
Create an account on Sciforum.net and follow the link “Submit a new abstract” in User Home. Submit a 200-word abstract in English that includes the title, focus, and main contributions of your poster. For empirical presentations, include methodological details. Provide your name, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address.
Publication Opportunities
The open access journal Sustainability will publish a special issue on the World Sustainability Forum 2021, entitled "Looking beyond Sustainability: Selected Papers from the 9th World Sustainability Forum (WSF 2021)".
The journal is indexed by both SCIE and SSCI in Web of Science (WoS). Its Impact Factor was 2.576 as of 2019, which ranks Sustainability as 120 out of 265 (Q2) journals in the field of Environmental Sciences and 53 out of 123 (Q2) in the field of Environmental Studies. So far, Sustainability has been listed as Q1 journal in major indexation databases like Scopus, and Simago and also received an increased IF of 3.251 in WoS database and increased CiteScore 3.9 in Scopus (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/stats).
The journal Sustainability will grant up to 20% discount on APCs for all WSF participants and exceptional discounts (above 30%) can be eligible for feature papers pre-assessed by the conference Special Issue managing team. For further information on the SI itself and how to submit, please click here. If you have any inquiries, please contact the editorial office directly.