Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts
A multidisciplinary journal for the environmental chemical sciences.
Editor-in-Chief: Elsie Sunderland
Open Access: 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.
ISSN: 2050-7895
Journal Impact factor
3.9 (2024)
First decision time (all)
16 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
54 days
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
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.
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Meet the team














Ludmilla Aristilde
Northwestern University
Alexandria Boehm
Stanford University
Richard Brown
National Physical Laboratory
Delphine Farmer
Colorado State University
Tamara Galloway
University of Exeter
Marianne Glasius
Aarhus University
Philip Gschwend
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Liang-Hong Guo
China Jiliang University
Colleen Hansel
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hans Christian Bruun Hansen
University of Copenhagen
Stuart Harrad
University of Birmingham
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Duke University
Jianying Hu
Peking University
Edward Kolodziej
University of Washington
Ruben Kretzschmar
ETH Zürich
Florent Louis
University of Lille
Matthew MacLeod
Stockholm University
Kristopher McNeill
ETH Zürich
Derek Muir
Environment & Climate Change Canada
Kara Nelson
University of California
Noelle Selin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Susan Solomon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Sachchida Nand Tripathi
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
David Waite
University of New South Wales
Frank Wania
University of Toronto at Scarborough
Guang-Guo Ying
SCNU Environmental Research Institute & School of Environment
Jon Ferrier
Executive Editor
Demitra Ellina
Deputy Editor
Lucy Argyle
Editorial Production Manager
Alex Holiday
Editorial Assistant
Jamie Purcell
Assistant Editor
Alexander John
Assistant Editor
Emily Ellison
Assistant Editor
Clare Fitzgerald
Assistant Editor
Lauren Yarrow-Wright
Assistant Editor
Kevin Vincent
Assistant Editor
Andryj Borys
Assistant Editor
Lee Colwill
Publishing Assistant
Sam Keltie
Publisher
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