Environmental Modelling & Software

Environmental Modelling & Software is a monthly Elsevier journal that began in 1986 as Environmental Software and publishes research on representing, understanding, predicting and managing environmental systems, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.2《环境建模与软件》（Environmental Modelling and Software）是（Elsevier）出版的月刊，1986 年以《Environmental Software》创刊，刊载环境系统表达、理解、预测与管理方面的研究，2025 年影响因子为 5.2。

Scope

• Its stated aim is to improve the capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behaviour of environmental systems at all practical scales, and to communicate those improvements to a wide scientific and professional audience该刊公开的宗旨是提升在各类实用尺度上表达、理解、预测与管理环境系统行为的能力，并把相关进展传播给广泛的科研与专业读者。
• It publishes research articles, review articles and short communications on advances in environmental modelling, in environmental software, or in the two combined刊载研究论文、综述与短通讯，报道环境建模、环境软件或二者结合的最新进展。
• Model development, calibration, evaluation, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analysis form the methodological core模型构建、率定、评估、敏感性分析与不确定性分析构成其方法学核心。
• Software papers describing tools, frameworks and cyberinfrastructure for environmental science are a recognised article category, so code and model design are reviewed as scholarly contributions in their own right描述环境科学工具、框架与网络基础设施的软件类论文是受认可的文章类别，代码与模型设计本身即作为学术贡献接受评审。
• Integrated assessment, decision support and participatory modelling connect the modelling work to policy questions and to stakeholder decisions综合评估、决策支持与参与式建模把建模工作与政策问题及利益相关方的决策连接起来。
• Application domains run across water resources and hydrology, climate, land use and agriculture, ecology, air quality, natural hazards and energy systems应用领域横跨水资源与水文学、气候、土地利用与农业、生态学、空气质量、自然灾害与能源系统。
• The journal is the official publication of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, and its readership combines modellers, software developers, environmental scientists and decision makers该刊是（International Environmental Modelling and Software Society）的会刊，读者群包括建模人员、软件开发者、环境科学家与决策者。

History

• Elsevier launched the title in 1986 as Environmental Software, and the present name was adopted in 1997 with volume 12（Elsevier）于 1986 年以《Environmental Software》创刊，1997 年第 12 卷起改用现名。
• It serves as the official journal of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, which grew out of the modelling community that the journal had helped to build该刊是国际环境建模与软件学会的会刊，该学会源自期刊长期聚合起来的建模共同体。
• The journal is edited from Elsevier's Oxford office and in recent years has issued twelve volumes annually, carrying roughly 400 articles a year该刊由（Elsevier）牛津办公室编辑出版，近年每年出版约 12 卷、年发文约 400 篇。
• Its impact factor moved from 5.288 in 2021 and 5.471 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024 and 5.2 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 5.288、2022 年的 5.471 变动为 2024 年的 4.6 与 2025 年的 5.2。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it is first quartile in water resources at 26th of 132, and second quartile in computer science interdisciplinary applications, environmental sciences and environmental engineering在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，其水资源类列 132 种期刊第 26 位、属第一四分位，在计算机跨学科应用、环境科学与环境工程类属第二四分位。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, reports a CiteScore of 9.3, and offers open access as an option alongside subscription publication该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）与（Scopus）收录，CiteScore 为 9.3，并在订阅出版之外提供开放获取选项。

Editors

• Daniel P. Ames of Brigham Young University, who works on hydrology, water resources, modelling and environmental software, is co-editor-in-chief共同主编（Daniel P. Ames）任职于杨百翰大学，研究水文学、水资源、建模与环境软件。
• Min Chen of Nanjing Normal University, a specialist in geographic modelling and simulation and in GIS, is the other co-editor-in-chief另一位共同主编（Min Chen）来自南京师范大学，专长地理建模与模拟以及地理信息系统。
• Anthony Jakeman and Aaron Jennings hold emeritus editor roles, at the Australian National University and Case Western Reserve University respectively（Anthony Jakeman）与（Aaron Jennings）担任荣誉编辑，分别任职于澳大利亚国立大学与凯斯西储大学。
• The editorial team also includes Sondoss El Sawah of UNSW Canberra, Derek Karssenberg of Utrecht University, Saman Razavi of the University of Saskatchewan, Vidya Samadi of Clemson University and George P. Petropoulos of Harokopio University编辑团队还包括新南威尔士大学堪培拉分校的（Sondoss El Sawah）、乌得勒支大学的（Derek Karssenberg）、萨斯喀彻温大学的（Saman Razavi）、克莱姆森大学的（Vidya Samadi）与哈罗科普大学的（George P. Petropoulos）。
• The journal lists 75 editors and board members from 17 countries, led by the United States with 20, Australia and China with 10 each, Italy with 8 and the Netherlands with 7期刊列出的编辑与编委共 75 人，来自 17 个国家或地区，其中美国 20 人、澳大利亚与中国各 10 人、意大利 8 人、荷兰 7 人。
• An international advisory board formed by Karina Gibert, Holger Maier and Lucy Marshall, together with two assistant editors working on reproducibility and geospatial modelling, completes the structure国际顾问委员会由（Karina Gibert）、（Holger Maier）与（Lucy Marshall）组成，另有两名助理编辑负责可复现性与地理空间建模事务，共同构成完整的编辑架构。