Environmental Health Perspectives

Environmental Health Perspectives (Environ. Health Perspect.) was founded in April 1972 and was long supported by the United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, being formally transferred to the American Chemical Society at the close of 2025. It concentrates on environmental toxicology, exposure science and environmental epidemiology, is fully open access with no article processing charge, and had a 2025 impact factor of 10.9.《环境健康展望》（Environmental Health Perspectives''''，缩写 Environ. Health Perspect.''）创刊于 1972 年 4 月，长期由美国国家环境健康科学研究所支持，2025 年底正式移交美国化学会出版。该刊以环境毒理学、暴露科学与环境流行病学为主，为完全开放获取且不收文章处理费，二〇二五年影响因子为 10.9。

Scope

The journal's editorial stance is that a paper must link environmental exposure to health outcome: however complete the toxicology, it has to bear on human exposure or health risk and be usable in risk assessment and policy. Coverage runs from exposure measurement to policy evaluation and concentrates on:本刊的取稿立场是「把环境暴露与健康结局连起来」：一篇论文不论毒理机制多么完整，都要说明它与人群暴露或健康风险的关联，并可供风险评估与政策制定使用。收文覆盖从暴露测量到政策评估的链条，重点包括：

• Environmental toxicology: mechanisms of toxicity of xenobiotics, mixture and combined exposure toxicity, toxicogenomics and high-throughput screening, and alternative toxicological methods.环境毒理学： 外源物的毒性机制、混合物与复合暴露毒性、毒理基因组学与高通量筛选、替代毒理方法。

• Exposure science and measurement: exposure assessment methods, biomonitoring and internal dose, sensors and personal exposure measurement, and exposomics.暴露科学与暴露测量： 暴露评估方法、生物监测与内暴露、传感器与个人暴露测量、暴露组学研究。

• Risk assessment: dose-response and extrapolation, risk characterisation, uncertainty analysis, and cumulative risk assessment methodology.风险评估： 剂量反应与外推、风险表征、不确定性分析、累积风险评估方法。

• Environmental epidemiology: cohort and case-control studies, associations between environmental exposure and health outcome, time-series and spatial analysis, and susceptible populations and health disparities.环境流行病学： 队列与病例对照研究、环境暴露与健康结局的关联、时间序列与空间分析、易感人群与健康差异。

• Policy and evaluation: evaluation of environmental and public health policy, analysis of regulatory impact, assessment of intervention effects, and use of evidence in decision-making.政策与评估： 环境与公共卫生政策评估、法规影响分析、干预效果评价、证据在决策中的使用。

• Priority topics: climate change and health, structural racism and environmental justice, chemical mixtures, and children's environmental health.重点议题： 气候变化与健康、结构性种族主义与环境正义、化学混合物、儿童环境健康。

The journal is fully open access with no article processing charge, a diamond open access model. The American Chemical Society has announced that it will waive article processing charges until the end of 2026. Under the institute the journal was monthly本刊为完全开放获取且不收取文章处理费，属钻石开放获取模式；美国化学会宣布 2026 年底前免收文章处理费；本刊在移交前的刊期为月刊，美国化学会复刊后的年度期数官方未公示。 the number of issues a year after the society relaunches it has not been stated officially.^[1]

History

• Founding (1972): the journal was founded in April 1972 and, according to the official editorial, began under the leadership of David Rall, initially as a record of conferences and symposia. After seven trial issues in 1974 it became a formal journal and moved to monthly peer-reviewed publication.创刊（1972年）： 1972 年 4 月创刊，据官方社论，本刊在（David Rall）的带领下起步，最初为会议与研讨会论文集；1974 年试刊七期后转为正式期刊，并改为月度同行评审刊。

• Turn to original research (1993): in 1993 the journal turned to original research, the then co-editors announcing the change under the title A new beginning. From then on it moved from conference material to being a research journal.转向原创研究（1993年）： 1993 年本刊转向原创研究，当时的联合主编以「一个新的开始」为题说明这一改变；此后本刊由以会议材料为主转为研究刊物。

• Open access and scale: full text has been free since 2004 and the journal subsequently became a diamond open access title with no article processing charge. Submissions rose from 384 in the first quarter of 2020 to 636 in the same quarter of 2025.开放获取与体量： 2004 年起本刊全文免费，其后成为不收文章处理费的钻石开放获取刊物；投稿量由 2020 年第一季度的三百八十四件增至 2025 年同期的六百三十六件。

• Transfer (2025): funding was interrupted by a shift in the priorities of the National Institutes of Health, and the final issue from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences was volume 133, issue 6, of June 2025, carrying a farewell editorial from the editor-in-chief. At the close of 2025 the journal was formally transferred to the American Chemical Society under the Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program, with the society planning to reopen submissions and fold the title into its publishing in early 2026.移交（2025年）： 因美国国立卫生研究院资助优先事项调整导致经费中断，本刊由国家环境健康科学研究所出版的最后一期为 133 卷第 6 期（2025 年 6 月），刊有主编告别社论；2025 年底经联邦剩余动产捐赠计划正式移交美国化学会，该会计划 2026 年初重开投稿并入出版。^[1]

• Metrics and indexing: the American Chemical Society gives a two-year impact factor of 10.9 and a CiteScore of 17.7. The society has not formally published the indexing list指标与收录： 美国化学会公布两年影响因子 10.9、引用分数 17.7；本刊的收录清单一事该会未正式公布，可由引用分数佐证 Scopus、由 PMID 佐证 MEDLINE，科学引文索引扩展版未有官方宣布。 Scopus is evidenced by the CiteScore and MEDLINE by PubMed identifiers, while coverage by the Science Citation Index Expanded has not been officially announced.

Editors

Most editors have come from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences本刊历任主编多来自国家环境健康科学研究所，2020 年起首次由非该所人员出任；现任主编来自华盛顿大学，在移交后继续担任主编。 from 2020 the post was held for the first time by someone outside the institute. The present editor comes from the University of Washington and continues in the role after the transfer.^[2]

• Present editor-in-chief: Joel D. Kaufman holds appointments in environmental and occupational health sciences, medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington and took up the post in 2020, the first editor from outside the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.现任主编： （Joel D. Kaufman）供职于华盛顿大学环境职业健康科学、医学与流行病学三系，2020 年就任，为本刊首位非国家环境健康科学研究所雇员的主编。

• Founding and past editors: the first editors were George W. Lucier and Gary E.R. Hook as joint editors in 1974. They were followed by Hugh Tilson from 2008 to 2014, Jane Schroeder in an acting role from 2014 to 2015 and Sally Perreault Darney from 2015 to 2020.首任与历任： 首任为（George W. Lucier）与（Gary E.R. Hook）任 1974 年联合主编；其后（Hugh Tilson）2008 年至 2014 年在任、（Jane Schroeder）2014 至 2015 年代理、（Sally Perreault Darney）2015 年至 2020 年在任。

• Role in the field: the journal is the longest-running and wholly free authoritative title in environmental health, and its evidence is routinely cited in risk assessments by regulatory bodies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The change of publishing body has not altered its diamond open access position.学科角色： 本刊是环境健康领域历时最久且完全免费的权威刊物，其证据常被美国国家环境保护局等监管机构的风险评估直接引用；出版主体的变动并未改变其钻石开放获取定位。