Environmental Earth Sciences

Environmental Earth Sciences is a multidisciplinary geoscience journal about the way human activity alters the geosphere and the boundary it shares with the biosphere, published by Springer and tracing its bloodline to 1975 under an earlier name.《环境地球科学》是一份多学科地球科学期刊，研究人类活动如何改变地球圈及其与生物圈的交接带，由 Springer 出版，其血脉可上溯至 1975 年的前身刊。

The journal aims to supply unbiased evidence for the sustainable management of natural resources and for reducing geological, chemical and biological hazards.该刊力求为自然资源的可持续管理，以及地质、化学与生物危害的减轻，提供不偏不倚的证据。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3 and stands in the second quartile of the multidisciplinary geosciences.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在多学科地球科学类目中列第二区。

Scope

• The journal works within a geosphere plus idea, and it studies interactions altered by human activity inside the geosphere and across the geosphere and biosphere.该刊立足于地球圈加的理念，考察地球圈内部以及地球圈与生物圈之间被人类活动改变的相互作用。

• Environmental impact assessment seen from a geoscience angle forms one of six named topical areas.从地球科学视角出发的环境影响评价，是六个点名主题领域之一。

• Geo-hazards make up a second area, and work on landslides, subsidence, earthquakes and related processes is taken here.地质灾害构成第二个领域，关于滑坡、地面沉降、地震及相关过程的工作在此收载。

• Groundwater systems are treated as a third area, and the journal carries studies of aquifers, recharge and contaminant movement.地下水系统被列为第三个领域，该刊刊载含水层、补给与污染物运移方面的研究。

• Natural and engineered georeservoirs form a fourth area, taking in hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs and the storage of fluids underground.天然与工程地质储层构成第四个领域，涵盖油气储层、地热储层以及流体的地下封存。

• Surface and ground water resources engineering is the fifth area, and the sixth gathers research tools for data science.地表与地下水资源工程是第五个领域，第六个领域则汇集面向数据科学的研究工具。

• Contributions are drawn from geophysics, geochemistry and the biogeosciences, and from engineering geology, hydrogeology and physical geography.来稿来自地球物理学、地球化学与生物地球科学，也来自工程地质学、水文地质学与自然地理学。

• Six article types are accepted, among them the research article, the review and the technical paper.刊物接受六种文章类型，其中包括研究论文、综述与技术论文。

• Editorials and commentaries are carried as a type of their own, and so are policy and practice pieces and data reports.社论与评论自成一类，政策与实践类文章以及数据报告同样如此。

• Policy and practice contributions are meant to connect the science to decisions taken about land, water and mineral resources.政策与实践类来稿意在把科学同土地、水与矿产资源方面的决策连接起来。

• Data reports give a home to datasets and to methods of managing them, which the journal treats as a distinct form of contribution.数据报告为数据集及其管理方法提供发表之地，该刊把这类工作视为一种独立的贡献形式。

• Karst and caves, carbonate hydrology, mining impacts and landfill management all appear among the subjects the journal has covered.岩溶与洞穴、碳酸盐岩水文、采矿影响以及填埋场管理，都出现在该刊曾经覆盖的题目之中。

• The readership is made up of geoscientists, engineers and environmental managers in universities, agencies and industry.读者由高校、政府机构与产业界的地球科学家、工程师与环境管理者组成。

• The journal has published on remote sensing and geographic information systems, and on the use of geostatistics to map a region.该刊曾刊载遥感与地理信息系统方面的文章，也刊载运用地统计学绘制区域图的工作。

• Carbonate hydrology and the study of karst aquifers have a long record in its pages, reflecting the journal's early roots in environmental geology.碳酸盐岩水文与岩溶含水层研究在该刊有长久记录，呼应它早年植根于环境地质的渊源。

• Mining and its environmental footprint are treated as a subject, and the journal carries work on mine water, tailings and land restoration.采矿及其环境足迹自成一个选题，该刊刊载矿井水、尾矿与土地复垦方面的研究。

• Radioactivity and nuclear science appear in the scope, and studies of naturally occurring radionuclides in rock and soil are admitted.放射性与核科学见于选题范围，关于岩石与土壤中天然放射性核素的研究也在接纳之列。

• Quantitative methods are welcomed, and the journal has taken papers that build models of subsurface flow, transport and reaction.定量方法受到欢迎，该刊曾收载构建地下水流动、运移与反应模型的论文。

History

• The first article of the journal appeared on 1 January 1975, in the title then known as Environmental Geology.该刊的第一篇文章于 1975 年 1 月 1 日刊出，当时的刊名是 Environmental Geology。

• The name was changed to Environmental Earth Sciences with the issue of 2009, and the editors treat the two titles as one continuous publication.2009 年的一期起，刊名改为 Environmental Earth Sciences，编辑方把前后两个刊名视为同一份连续出版物。

• In 2025 the journal marked two anniversaries at once, fifty years from that first article and fifteen years from the first issue under the present name.2025 年该刊同时迎来两个纪念，一是自那第一篇论文起五十年，二是现名之下首期起十五年。

• The publisher has been Springer throughout, working from Berlin, and the journal is one of the longer running titles in environmental geoscience.出版方始终是位于柏林的 Springer，该刊是环境地球科学领域持续时间较长的刊物之一。

• The print number is 1866-6280 and the electronic number is 1866-6299, and the printed edition has been discontinued while the online edition continues.印刷版编号为 1866-6280，电子版编号为 1866-6299，印刷版已经停出，电子版延续至今。

• The journal comes out twenty-four times a year, a semimonthly rhythm that it has kept for a considerable stretch of its recent history.该刊每年出版二十四期，这一半月刊的节奏在近年一直延续。

• From 1 January 2026 the journal has been fully open access, and a limited number of waivers is offered for authors who need them.自 2026 年 1 月 1 日起，该刊转为完全开放获取，并为需要资助的作者提供数量有限的费用减免。

• The impact indicator has moved from 2.784 and 3.119 to 2.8 and 2.8, and it stood at 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子从 2.784 与 3.119 变为 2.8 与 2.8，在 2025 年版为 3.3。

• A survey of authors reported that nearly all of them, some ninety-six per cent, would be willing to publish in the journal again.一项针对作者的调查显示，几乎所有人，约百分之九十六，愿意再次在该刊发表论文。

• The editorial line has passed through several hands, and earlier editors included Gunter Dorhoerfer and James W. LaMoreaux alongside the present pair.编辑方针历经多人之手，早年的主编包括（Gunter Dorhoerfer）与（James W. LaMoreaux），与现任的两位先后相继。

• The journal moved under a single online imprint as the print edition closed, and it now reaches readers through the publisher's digital platform alone.随着印刷版停出，该刊转入单一的线上出版载体，如今只经出版方的数字平台抵达读者。

Editors

• The journal is led by two editors-in-chief, Olaf Kolditz and Yan Zheng.该刊由两位主编共同主持，即（Olaf Kolditz）与（Yan Zheng）。

• They are supported by a board of associate editors and an editorial advisory board drawn from several continents.两位主编由一批副编辑与编辑顾问委员会协助，成员来自数个大陆。

• The board covers the range of the journal, with geophysicists, hydrogeologists, engineering geologists and environmental chemists among its members.编委会覆盖该刊的全部范围，成员中有地球物理学家、水文地质学家、工程地质学家与环境化学家。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's online system and are assessed by external referees before a decision.稿件经出版方的在线系统投递，在作出决定之前由外部审稿人评估。

• The journal publishes the median time from submission to a first decision, which stood at thirty-seven days in the most recent report.该刊公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时长，在最近一次报告中为三十七天。

• A pre-submission checklist is offered to authors, and the journal sets out detailed submission guidelines on its own pages.刊物为作者提供投稿前检查清单，并在自身页面上给出详细的投稿指南。

• Six article types each carry their own expectations, and the editorial office directs a manuscript to the category that fits it.六种文章类型各有其要求，编辑部会把稿件归入与之相称的类别。

• Open access publishing brings a charge for accepted papers, and the journal maintains a waiver scheme for authors without funding.开放获取出版对录用的论文收取费用，该刊为缺少经费的作者保留减免方案。

• Special collections are assembled from time to time, and a themed collection on a current question in environmental geoscience has appeared under the editor's choice label.刊物不时组织专题汇集，围绕环境地球科学某一现实问题的主题集合曾以编辑精选的名义推出。

• The journal states its commitment to peer review and to the ethical standards of the publisher, and it publishes its policies in the open.该刊声明其对同行评审与出版方伦理标准的承诺，并把各项政策公开发布。