Cambridge Prisms- Plastics

Cambridge Prisms: Plastics is a gold open access journal launched in 2023 by Cambridge University Press within its Cambridge Prisms series, covering the science and policy of plastics and their links to human and environmental health, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.3《剑桥棱镜塑料》（Cambridge Prisms: Plastics）由剑桥大学出版社于 2023 年在其剑桥棱镜系列中创办，是金色开放获取期刊，覆盖塑料科学及其政策，以及塑料与人类健康和环境健康的关联，2025 年影响因子为 5.3。

Scope

• The journal examines plastics across production, use, waste, pollution, recycling and reuse, and the transition to a circular economy期刊考察塑料的生产、使用、废弃、污染、回收与再利用，以及向循环经济的转型。
• Impacts on human and environmental health, including microplastics and chemicals of concern in plastics, are central塑料对人类健康与环境健康的影响，包括微塑料与塑料中的关注化学品，是核心议题。
• Environmental justice, human rights and the unequal burden of plastic pollution on vulnerable communities are explicit themes环境正义、人权以及塑料污染对弱势群体的不均等负担是明确主题。
• Governance and policy analysis, including the negotiations for a global plastics treaty, feature prominently治理与政策分析，包括全球塑料条约谈判，占据显著位置。
• Marine and terrestrial litter, transboundary transport and monitoring approaches fall within scope海洋与陆地塑料垃圾、跨境迁移与监测方法均属收稿范围。
• Economics, business models, consumer behaviour and lifecycle assessment are welcomed alongside natural science除自然科学外，期刊也欢迎经济学、商业模式、消费者行为与生命周期评估研究。
• Article types include research articles, reviews, perspectives, case studies and commentaries文章类型包括研究论文、综述、观点、案例研究与评论。

History

• The journal was announced in September 2022 with the University of Portsmouth leading its launch, and its first volume appeared in 2023该刊于 2022 年 9 月宣布创办，由朴茨茅斯大学牵头，首卷于 2023 年出版。
• It is one of the Cambridge Prisms titles, a series of open access journals that Cambridge University Press aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals该刊是剑桥棱镜系列之一，该系列是剑桥大学出版社面向联合国可持续发展目标推出的开放获取刊群。
• It publishes continuously, with articles assigned to a single annual volume and identified by article numbers期刊采用连续出版模式，文章归入单一年度卷，并以文章编号标识。
• The journal is gold open access under Creative Commons licences, with an article processing charge of USD 4010 and no subscription option期刊以知识共享许可实现金色开放获取，文章处理费为 4010 美元，不设订阅。
• It is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.3 placed it 44th of 202 in environmental studies and 109th of 395 in environmental sciences期刊被（ESCI）、（Scopus）与（DOAJ）收录，2025 年影响因子为 5.3，在环境研究类 202 种期刊中列第 44 位，在环境科学类 395 种期刊中列第 109 位。
• The journal is published on Cambridge Core and shares the 10.1017 DOI prefix with other Cambridge University Press titles期刊在（Cambridge Core）平台出版，与剑桥大学出版社其他期刊共用（10.1017）数字对象标识符前缀。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Steve Fletcher, professor at the University of Portsmouth and co-director of its Revolution Plastics Institute主编（Steve Fletcher）是朴茨茅斯大学教授、该校革命塑料研究所联席所长。
• Senior editors are Thais Mauad of the University of Sao Paulo, Rachel Tiller of SINTEF in Norway, Agnes Wangui Muthumbi of the University of Nairobi and Tony Walker of Dalhousie University高级编辑包括圣保罗大学的（Thais Mauad）、挪威（SINTEF）的（Rachel Tiller）、内罗毕大学的（Agnes Wangui Muthumbi）与达尔豪斯大学的（Tony Walker）。
• The wider board of about 30 editors comes from 16 countries and regions, including China, Singapore, the Netherlands, Turkey, Bangladesh and Brazil编委会约 30 人，来自 16 个国家和地区，包括中国、新加坡、荷兰、土耳其、孟加拉国与巴西。
• Review is open or single anonymous, and the journal accepts preprints and encourages deposit of data in public repositories评审可开放或单匿名，期刊接受预印本投稿，并鼓励将数据存入公共仓储。
• The board is listed in full on Cambridge Core with affiliations, and its members span natural science, engineering, policy and economics编委名单在（Cambridge Core）完整公布并附单位，成员覆盖自然科学、工程、政策与经济等方向。
• The editor-in-chief publishes occasional editorial articles reviewing the journal's progress and inviting work on emerging plastics issues主编不定期发表编辑部文章，回顾办刊进展并邀约新兴塑料议题稿件。^[1]