Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
A multidisciplinary journal for the environmental chemical sciences.
Editor-in-Chief: Elsie Sunderland
Publishing model: Hybrid
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts publishes high quality papers and innovative perspectives that advance the understanding of chemical processes in the environment and their resulting impacts.
Scope
The journal publishes research in all areas of the environmental chemical sciences, interfacing with earth science, applied science, and policy solutions, including:
- Environmental chemistry – sources, fate, transport and transformation of organic compounds, environmental contaminants and novel entities in the environment
- Atmospheric and indoor chemistry – chemical processes in the atmosphere, air quality, aerosol chemistry, indoor air and human exposure
- Geochemistry and biogeochemical cycles – elemental cycling, climate change impacts
- Ecotoxicology and human health impacts – exposure, effects and risks
- Pathogen or biological contaminant fate and transport
The journal also publishes research with direct applications in:
- Environmental management and pollution control
- Science-Policy interface – environmental decision making
- Safe and sustainable chemistry – life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, circular economy
Papers that are focused primarily on water engineering and treatment technologies or on the environmental behaviour of engineered nanomaterials would be better suited to our sister journals, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology and Environmental Science: Nano.
Readership
Industrial and academic scientists and professionals involved with assessing environmental and biological impacts; measurement and analytical scientists; legislators; government bodies; national and international environmental agencies; health and safety experts; toxicologists; industrial and occupational health professionals; medical and clinical researchers; technology and instrumentation experts.
Journal Impact Factor
4.2 (2025)
First decision time (all)
16 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
68 days
Indexing
eISSN: 2050-7895
Indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
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Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts publishes:
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- Full papers
- Perspectives
- Critical reviews
- Frontier reviews
- Tutorial reviews
- Comments/Replies
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