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Impact factor: n/a
Time to first decision (all decisions): 35 days**
Editor-in-chief: Neil Donahue
Time to first decision (peer-reviewed only): 39 days***
Time for initial assessment: 4 days****
Indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Connecting communities and inspiring ideas
Led by Neil Donahue (Carnegie Mellon University), Environmental Science: Atmospheres is a gold open access journal committed to bringing the wider environmental science and climate change communities together in a fresh, open approach. Environmental Science: Atmospheres covers the full breadth of atmospheric science and links fundamental and applied research.
As a gold open access journal, all the content is freely accessible. We are waiving article processing charges until mid-2023, so your work will receive maximum visibility at no cost to you.
Scope
Environmental Science: Atmospheres is a gold open access journal publishing high-quality research in fundamental and applied atmospheric science.
The journal is cross-disciplinary and spans the entirety of Earth’s atmosphere. This includes atmosphere–biosphere, atmosphere–ocean, and atmosphere–surface interactions. We also encourage research related to indoor air as well as human health effects.
Chemical processes, interactions between chemical and physical systems, and environmental change are central, as is environmental change driven by natural or anthropogenic causes, including emissions from natural and human systems.
Environmental Science: Atmospheres welcomes contributions in thermodynamics, microphysics, and chemistry of multiphase systems coupling gases, aerosols and clouds, as well as photochemistry and radiative transfer. All aspects of science are covered, including in situ and laboratory measurements, computation chemistry and chemical transport modelling, instrumentation, and remote sensing.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Aerosols
- Biomass burning
- Biosphere interactions
- Clouds
- Climate variability, drivers and consequences
- Computational chemistry
- Deposition
- Dust
- Emissions
- Field measurements
- Gases
- Health effects
- Hydrosphere interactions
- Indoor air
- Instrumentation
- Modelling
- Isotopes
- Laboratory measurements
- Multiphase chemistry
- Pollution mitigation
- Precipitation
- Radiation
- Remote sensing
Different communities use different languages, even within science and engineering; physicists use a different language than chemists who use a different language than meteorologists. We are creating a forum to share the newest developments and advances in our understanding of the atmosphere with an audience including environmental engineers, chemists, physicists, and policymakers. We are providing a space where we can talk together and open collaborations between our communities.
Publish in our Themed Collections
Environmental Science: Atmospheres publishes a number of themed collections every year on timely and important topics, guest edited by members of the atmospheric science community. All submissions to our themed collections will undergo an initial assessment by the journal Editors and subsequent peer review as per the usual standards of RSC journals.
Read our growing collections of papers on the following topics:
Aerosol formation in the urban environment
Brilliant light sources in atmospheric and environmental research
Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Atmospheric Science
Particle levitation to address challenges in atmospheric science
Join us in tackling the UN SDGs
We welcome contributions to our cross-journal collections across our energy and environmental science journals showcasing research that advances the following UN SDGs. State the following in your Comments to the Editor when you submit your next paper on these themes:
UN SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation – XXSDG0622
UN SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy – XXSDG0722
UN SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production – XXSDG1222
UN SDG 13: Climate Action – XXSDG1322
UN SDG 14: Life below water – XXSDG1422
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Interdisciplinary & comprehensive
Multidisciplinary in nature, Environmental Science: Atmospheres covers the full breadth of atmospheric science.
Visible
This gold open access journal gives your work maximum visibility and reaches a global readership. APCs are waived until mid-2023.
Transparent & open
Offers a transparent peer-review process, showing our commitment to transparency and open science.
Part of the family
Joins an already trusted and established family of environmental science journals.
A trusted society publisher
The reputation, standards, commitment and expertise you would expect from a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.
Editor-in-chief Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Associate Editor Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Associate Editor Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Associate Editor Stockholm University, Sweden
Associate Editor University of Oulu, Finland
Associate Editor Fudan University, China
Editorial Board Member University of Leeds, UK
Editorial Board Member University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Katye Altieri, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Federico Bianchi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Muhammad Bilal, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
William Bloss, University of Birmingham, UK
Ann Marie Carlton, University of California Irvine, USA
Peter DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Aijun Ding, Nanjing University, China
Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University, USA
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, University of California, Irvine, USA
Christian George, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Marianne Glasius, Aarhus University, Denmark
Mattias Hallquist, University of Gothenberg, Sweden
Thomas Hanisco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Lucy Hutyra, Boston University, USA
Maria Kanakidou, University of Crete, Greece
Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK
Tuhin Kumar Mandal, National Physical Laboratory, India
Linsey Marr, Virginia Tech, USA
Randall Martin, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Yujing Mu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Patricia K. Quinn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory, USA
Andrew Rickard, University of York, UK
Ilona Riipinen, Stockholm University, Sweden
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, CSIC, Spain
Sachchida Nand Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Ying I. Tsai, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Taiwan
Marina Vance, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Hanna Vehkamäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Bingbing Wang, Xiamen University, China
Shuxiao Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Emma Eley, Executive Editor ORCID: 0000-0002-6379-8502
Jon Ferrier, Deputy Editor
Alex Holiday, Editorial Assistant
Sarah Whitbread, Editorial Production Manager
Aphra Murray, Assistant Editor ORCID: 0000-0001-5469-2960
Jamie Purcell, Assistant Editor
Alexander John, Assistant Editor
Emily Ellison, Assistant Editor
Jack Pitchers, Assistant Editor
Lee Colwill, Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond, Publisher ORCID: 0000-0001-6390-8874
Transparent peer review process
To support increased transparency, we offer authors the option to publish the peer review history alongside their article. Reviewers are anonymous unless they choose to sign their report.
Find out more about our transparent peer review policy.
Featured Articles
Open access
There are no submission charges for Environmental Science: Atmospheres, and no article processing charges until mid-2023. As part of the submission process, authors will be asked to agree to the Environmental Science: Atmospheres open access terms & conditions.
We offer Environmental Science: Atmospheres 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.
Peer review
Environmental Science: Atmospheres follows a single-anonymised peer review process, with manuscripts handled by experienced associate editors. It consists of 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 recieved. 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.
Readership information
Our readership is interdisciplinary including researchers throughout the wider environmental science and climate change communities, appealing to both those working in fundamental and applied atmospheric chemistry.
Subscription information
Environmental Science: Atmospheres is fully gold open access – articles can be downloaded free from the website with no barriers to access.
Online only ISSN 2634-3606
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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**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts rejected from the previous calendar year
****The median time from submission to rejection without peer review for manuscripts from the previous calendar year
Pre-submission queries
- Email:
- The Executive Editor