Environmental Health

Environmental Health is an open access journal published by BioMed Central since 2002 and subtitled a global access science source, covering environmental and occupational medicine together with toxicology and epidemiology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.3 and a first-quartile rank of 24th among 443 public, environmental and occupational health journals《环境健康》（Environmental Health）是（BioMed Central）自 2002 年起出版的开放获取期刊，副题为「全球获取的科学来源」，覆盖环境与职业医学以及毒理学与流行病学，2025 年影响因子为 7.3，在 443 种公共卫生、环境与职业健康类期刊中列第 24 位，居第一四分位。

Scope

• The journal publishes manuscripts on all aspects of environmental and occupational medicine and related studies in toxicology and epidemiology该刊发表环境与职业医学各个方面以及毒理学与流行病学相关研究的稿件。
• It is aimed at scientists and practitioners in all areas of environmental science where human health and well-being are involved, either directly or indirectly该刊面向环境科学各领域中直接或间接涉及人类健康与福祉的科研人员与从业者。
• It covers primarily original research on the effects of chemical and physical agents in the environment that affect human health, with an emphasis on epidemiology主要刊载环境中化学与物理因子影响人类健康的原创研究，并以流行病学为重点。
• Commentaries and toxicology papers also appear from time to time alongside the main research content除主体研究内容之外，评论文章与毒理学论文亦不时刊出。
• The journal serves the public health community and scientists working on public health matters of environmental importance, with a view to improving the prevention of environment-related risks该刊服务公共卫生社群以及研究具有环境重要性的公共卫生议题的科学家，以期改进环境相关风险的预防。
• All articles are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers所有文章一经发表即在线免费并永久开放，不收订阅费用，也不设注册门槛。

History

• Environmental Health was launched in 2002 and was among the very first independent specialty journals on the roster of BioMed Central该刊于 2002 年创刊，是（BioMed Central）早期名录中最先出现的独立专业期刊之一。
• Its founding Editors-in-Chief were Philippe Grandjean and David Ozonoff, who wrote about the journal's early years in a 2012 editorial其创刊主编为 Philippe Grandjean 与 David Ozonoff，二人曾在 2012 年的一篇社论中回顾刊物早年历程。^[1]
• David Ozonoff of Boston University led the title from its founding until his retirement in 2023, and Ruth Etzel now serves as Editor-in-Chief alongside Grandjean（Boston University）的 David Ozonoff 自创刊起领导该刊直至 2023 年荣休，现由 Ruth Etzel 与 Grandjean 共同担任主编。
• It received its first Journal Impact Factor of 2.48, a result that placed the journal in the top quarter of environmental science titles该刊获得首个影响因子 2.48，这一结果使其跻身环境科学类期刊的前四分之一。^[2]
• Articles are numbered rather than paginated and are added consecutively to the current annual volume, a structure that suits continuous publication文章以编号而非页码标识，并按序累加进当年卷中，这一结构适配连续出版模式。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 5.984 in 2021, 7.123 in 2022, 5.9 in 2024 and 7.3 in 2025其影响因子 2021 年为 5.984、2022 年为 7.123、2024 年为 5.9、2025 年为 7.3。

Editors

• The Editors-in-Chief are Philippe Grandjean of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense and Ruth Etzel of Georgetown University in Washington现任主编为（University of Southern Denmark）欧登塞校区的 Philippe Grandjean 与（Georgetown University）华盛顿校区的 Ruth Etzel。
• Associate editors include Neela Guha of the University of California, Berkeley, Gerard Hoek of Utrecht University, Margaret Karagas of Dartmouth College and Laura Vandenberg of the University of Massachusetts Amherst副编辑包括（University of California Berkeley）的 Neela Guha、（Utrecht University）的 Gerard Hoek、（Dartmouth College）的 Margaret Karagas 与（University of Massachusetts Amherst）的 Laura Vandenberg。
• A wider editorial board of about thirty researchers spans Lebanon, Israel, Sweden, Ghana, Qatar, China, Japan and the United States, among other countries更广的编委会约有三十位研究者，来自黎巴嫩、以色列、瑞典、加纳、卡塔尔、中国、日本与美国等地。
• The journal operates open peer review, with reviewers' names included in the peer review reports, and published reports are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence该刊实行开放同行评审，审稿报告中包含审稿人姓名，已发布的审稿报告以（Creative Commons Attribution 4.0）许可发布。
• Accepted articles carry an article processing charge of £1690, $2490 or €1990, with routine waivers for authors from low-income countries录用文章的文章处理费为 1690 英镑、2490 美元或 1990 欧元，来自低收入国家的作者可获常规豁免。
• It is indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Embase, CAS and DOAJ, among other services该刊被（MEDLINE）、（PubMed）、（PubMed Central）、（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）、（Embase）、（CAS）与（DOAJ）等服务收录。