About IJFEST
A peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal for research at the intersection of environmental, social and governance measurement, industrial IoT systems, and applied artificial intelligence.
IJFEST publishes original research, reviews and case studies for the people who have to make sustainability claims hold up: researchers, carbon verifiers, industrial engineers and policy analysts working on measurable, auditable outcomes in heavy industry — oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, utilities.
The journal was founded in 2026. We published our editorial infrastructure and policies before accepting a single manuscript, so authors and reviewers can see how the journal is run before they commit work to it.
Aim & scope
We consider submissions that advance the theory or practice of sustainability measurement through connected systems and intelligent analysis. Core topics include:
- Carbon accounting, emissions verification and Scope 1/2/3 disclosure methodology
- Industrial IoT architectures — sensor networks, SCADA integration, edge computing, LiFi and VLC systems
- Applied machine learning for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection and disclosure reconciliation
- ESG data governance, audit trails and regulatory compliance frameworks
- Digital twins and simulation for industrial sustainability planning
- Policy and standards research across voluntary and compliance carbon markets
We also actively want work the field tends not to publish: replications, negative results, and deployments that failed for instructive reasons. A verification method that did not work in the field is useful to the next team that tries it.
Publication model
Every article publishes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and is free to read from the moment it appears. Authors retain copyright. The journal is funded by article processing charges paid on acceptance — see processing charges for proposed rates and the waiver policy.
Indexing & abstracting
IJFEST is not indexed in any abstracting or indexing database at this time. An ISSN application is pending; indexing applications follow ISSN approval. The indexing page records the current position and will record the outcome of each application, including any that are declined.
Every article page carries the metadata scholarly databases require — Highwire citation tags, JSON-LD and Dublin Core — so articles are harvestable from the day they publish.
Subject areas
IJFEST publishes original research, reviews, case studies and short communications in the following areas. A manuscript outside them is returned at screening rather than sent for review.
Industrial IoT & embedded systems
Sensor networks, SCADA and historian integration, edge computing, real-time and embedded control, gateway architecture, condition monitoring.
Applied artificial intelligence & machine learning
Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, feature selection, explainable and calibrated models for regulated decisions, learning on constrained hardware.
ESG measurement, carbon accounting & verification
Greenhouse-gas inventories, Scope 1–3 methodology, MRV frameworks, carbon-credit quantification, disclosure and assurance workflow.
Energy, power transfer & sustainable infrastructure
Wireless and inductive power transfer, renewable integration, resource recovery, circular-economy processes and sustainable materials.
Communication systems & optical wireless
Light fidelity and visible light communication, interference-constrained links, deterministic networking, communication in RF-restricted environments.
Trustworthy computing & data provenance
Blockchain-anchored provenance, tamper-evident imaging and audit ledgers, cryptographic integrity for evidence, authentication on constrained networks.
Health & biomedical engineering technologies
Edge monitoring and wearable sensing, clinical risk screening, medical device safety and electromagnetic immunity, health informatics.
Agricultural & environmental technologies
Smart agriculture, environmental monitoring, disaster-resilient systems, air and water quality, remote sensing for damage and risk assessment.
Quantum computing & quantum-enhanced engineering
Variational and kernel methods on noisy hardware, quantum optimisation for scheduling and routing, error mitigation, circuit compilation, and hybrid quantum–classical pipelines for engineering problems.
Journal metrics
Citation metrics will be published here once there is a citation record to report. We would rather show you nothing than a number we cannot substantiate.
Ownership & governance
IJFEST is published by ReoTek International Journals, the scholarly publishing division of Tekstein Solutions Pvt. Ltd., based at KIIT-TBI, Campus 11, Bhubaneswar, India.
Editorial decisions rest with the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial board. The publisher has no role in peer review or in individual acceptance decisions, and no commercial relationship affects whether a manuscript is accepted. Board recruitment is underway — see open roles.