Academic Journal
Q1Land
About Land
Land is a scholarly journal published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.775 and H-index of 85.
Coverage: 2012-2026. Research categories: Ecology (Q1); Nature and Landscape Conservation (Q1); Global and Planetary Change (Q2).
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- Journal Impact Factor: 3.5 — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal Impact Factor and reporting year from the publisher imprint.
- Impact Factor year: 2025 — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal Impact Factor and reporting year from the publisher imprint.
- Contact email: land@mdpi.com — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal editorial office email published by MDPI; manuscript files use the submission system.
- Editor(s): Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst (Editor-in-Chief) — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Current chief editor(s) listed on the official MDPI editorial board. Founding and section editors excluded.
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Topics in published research
Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Urban Green Space and Health; Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Urban Transport and Accessibility; Remote Sensing in Agriculture; Urban Heat Island Mitigation.
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Recent Research Articles
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2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101860Spatial Heterogeneity of Human–Land Interactions Under Coastal Development in a Port Region: Implications for Ecological Sustainability
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Qi Zhang, Zewen Yuan, Wanping Yang
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2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101858Balancing Security, Development, and Ecology in Border Land Governance: An SDET Diagnostic Framework and Flexible Authorization Pathway for Advancing the SDGs in China
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2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101859Rural Gentrification: Production System Restructuring of Rural Areas Under Deepening Urban–Rural Integration in China
Yining Zhang, Beixiang Shi, Yi Zheng, Yaquan Zhou et al.
2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101856The Impact of Stock Land Redevelopment Level on Urban Resilience and its Conditional Patterns: Evidence from 289 Chinese Cities
Zhiyuan Liu, Xiuli Feng
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101854From Dispersed Resources to Continuous Corridors: Route Integration Methods and Strategies for Rural Cultural Scenic Byways in the Southern Taihang Mountains
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2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101851NDVI-Detected Vegetation Dynamics, Spatial Morphology and Fixed-Population Co-Location Proxies in Riyadh Governorate, Saudi Arabia, 2018–2026: A Multimetric Framework for Urban and Cultural-Landscape Monitoring
Fahad Mutlaq Al-Otaibi, Ion Andronache, Ioannis Liritzis
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101853Land Conflicts as Governance Mechanisms: Entrepreneurship, Institutional Fragmentation, and Urban Sustainability in the Munua Peri-Urban Corridor, Lubumbashi (DRC)
Guy Masudi Mwana Mulenda, Bonaventure Banza wa Banza, César Nkuku Khonde, Regina John et al.
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101848Human–AI Collaboration as a New Governance Paradigm? Unpacking China’s Land Policy Responses to Environmental Pressures and Digital Transformation
Qing Gu, Cheng Zhou, Wanhao Zhang
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101850Research on Strategies for Constructing Ecological Security Patterns in Transboundary River Basins: A Case Study of the Erguna River Basin
Xinyao Li, Huiru Lv, Qilong Hao, Yange Wang et al.
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101847Analysis of the Evolution and Driving Mechanisms of Terrain Niches of Rural Settlements in the Mountain–Plain Transition Zone of Hebei Province
Fang Ma, Shuaiqi Zhao, Pengtao Zhang, Lichao Piao et al.
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101849Nonlinear Drivers and Interaction Patterns of Land Surface Temperature in a Coastal Mountainous City: A Mountain–Sea–City Perspective
Wenya Yang, Yongwei Liu
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101852How Social Justice Concerns in Strategic Land-Use Planning May Help Explain the Persistence of Urban Sprawl
Aud Tennøy, Oddrun Helen Hagen
2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101846Spectral Scaling Effects of ZY1-02D Satellite Imagery on Landscape Diversity Assessment in the Yellow River Delta: Using Harmonic Analysis and Interpretable XGBoost
Yuankun Bu, Yubing Tang, Pingjie Fu, Xinrong Duan et al.
2026-09-30 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101842Beyond Static Cooling Accessibility: Lower-Tail Availability of Urban Park Cooling Services Across Expanding Pedestrian Catchments
Jinjin Zhu, Yan Zhao, Yi Lei, Guangmeng Bian et al.
2026-09-30 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101841One Metro, Three Station-Area Patterns: Adaptive Retrofit, Commercial Convergence, and Programmed Vertical TOD in Riyadh
Ahmad Mashary Alnaim, Mohammed Mashary Alnaim
2026-09-30 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101844Comparing Designated Green Areas and Satellite-Derived Vegetation Greenness in Housing Price Prediction Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Dongwon Ko, David Park, Junwoo Park
2026-09-30 · DOI: 10.3390/land15101839Reviews
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