A new home for all environmental work addressing global challenges
Our existing environmental science journals all have chemistry at their core. Environmental Science: Advances will span not only chemistry, but research from any discipline related to the environmental sciences.
We welcome research from any discipline that will contribute to the understanding of the environment, and to the advancement of several UN Sustainable Development Goals – original thinking to take on the world’s biggest challenges.
Environmental Science: Advances will be gold open access, with all article processing charges waived until mid-2024.
Announcing our Editors-in-Chief

Zongwei Cai, Editor-in-Chief

Kevin Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Célia Manaia, Editor-in-Chief
Society focused
Our team is part of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a not-for-profit organisation driven by its mission to support the scientific community and help everyone in it to succeed.
Open to all
Research that helps to tackle environmental challenges must be available easily and quickly. Environmental Science: Advances is gold open access, with all APCs currently waived.
Where disciplines unite
Is your focus oceanography? Soil science? Climate science? We welcome quality research from any area related to environmental science to present an accurate overview of developments.
Progressive publishing
Choose from single- or double-anonymised peer review, keep an eye on your article’s status using our article tracker, and feel confident about a constantly improving submissions process.
Scope
This journal is for anyone, in any discipline, working to advance environmental sustainability.
Truly interdisciplinary, the journal welcomes research from any field related to the environmental sciences, global environmental change, and sustainability science. Inclusive collaboration across research disciplines is important for scientific advancement, and as such we welcome studies from a broad range of topics including biosciences, engineering, ecology, hydrology, soil science, geoscience, atmospheric science, agricultural science, climate science, social science interface, and much more. Studies that advance our understanding of the physical environment, environmental health, and environmental sustainability, or provide solutions to challenges in these areas are particularly welcome. All submitted manuscripts will be judged on their quality, interest and potential impact, to ensure we publish novel and significant contributions.
Fundamental environmental research is welcomed, alongside modelling, fieldwork, applied studies, policy work and studies at the interface of environmental and social science.
Coronavirus research – we welcome your high-impact studies
The RSC’s Environmental Science journals welcome your high-impact research on all environmental aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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See who's on the team
Meet the board members on our Environmental Science: Advances journal.
Editor-in-chief
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Editor-in-chief Lancaster University, UK
Editor-in-chief Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Associate Editor
Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Associate Editor
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Associate Editor
Fudan University, China
Editorial board member
IDAEA-CSIC, Spain
Associate Editor
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway
Tom Harner, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
Rong Ji, Nanjing University, China
Yongjie Li, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao Hemi Luan, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Jurgita Ovadnevaite, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Andreas Schäffer, Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Dörthe Tetzlaff, Humboldt University of Berlin and IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Meizhen Wang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
Zhe Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Xuan Zhang, University of California, Merced, USA
Emma Eley, Executive Editor ORCID 0000-0002-6379-8502
Jon Ferrier, Deputy Editor
Allegra Hartley, Editorial Assistant
Sarah Whitbread, Editorial Production Manager
Aphra Murray, Assistant Editor ORCID 0000-0001-5469-2960
Jamie Purcell, Assistant Editor
Sarah Holmes, Assistant Editor
Neil Hammond, Publisher
Peer Review
To offer our authors a more inclusive set of options, Environmental Science: Advances offers the following peer review options:
Single-anonymised peer review – where reviewers are anonymous and author names and affiliations are known to reviewers.
Double-anonymised peer review – both the authors’ and reviewers’ identities are anonymous.
More information can be found here.
Manuscripts in the journal are handled by experienced associate editors in the following stages:
Phase 1 - your manuscript is initially assessed by an Associate Editor.
Phase 2 - the Associate Editor solicits the expertise of at least two reviewers to assess your article and submit a report.
Phase 3 - the Associate Editor handling your manuscript makes a decision based on the reviewer reports received. In the event that no clear decision can be made, another senior reviewer will be consulted.
Please refer to our processes and policies for full details including our appeals procedure.
Open access
There are no submission charges for Environmental Science: Advances, and no article processing charges until mid-2024. As part of the submission process, authors will be asked to agree to the Environmental Science: Advances open access terms & conditions.
We offer Environmental Science: Advances authors a choice of two Creative Commons licences: CC BY or CC BY NC. Publication under these licences means that authors retain copyright of their article, but users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Read our open access statement for further information.
All published articles are deposited with LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico and the British Library for archiving.
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Subscription information
Environmental Science: Advances is fully gold open access – articles can be downloaded free from the website with no barriers to access.
Copyright
Copyright is retained by authors when an open access licence is accepted, as with our standard licence to publish agreement. Full and accurate attribution to the original author is required for any re-use of the work. Find out more about copyright, licences and re-use permission.
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