Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology (commonly abbreviated as ES&T) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), now issued weekly. It publishes environmental science and technology research addressed to scientists, policy makers and the broader environmental community, and is the core title of the society's environmental publishing portfolio.《环境科学与技术》（Environmental Science & Technology'，常用缩写为 ES&T''）是美国化学学会（American Chemical Society 简称 ACS）出版的同行评审学术期刊，现为周刊。该刊刊载面向科学家、政策制定者与更广泛环境界读者的环境科学与技术研究，是化学会环境类期刊组合中的核心刊物。
Scope
The journal states its editorial position in its author instructions: a paper is expected to be transformational and direction-setting rather than to add data to an existing issue, and the society's formulation is that for more than fifty years ES&T has been a foundational focus for thought-leading, policy-changing contributions. It addresses scientists, policy makers and the broad environmental community at once, a readership that requires papers to survive peer review and to be directly citable in policy debate. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的官方取稿立场写在投稿说明里：一篇稿件须具有转化性与方向设定的作用，而非在既有议题上补充数据；学会的表述是五十余年来本刊一直是具有思想引领力、能改变政策的贡献的汇集地。它同时面向科学家、政策制定者与更广泛的环境界读者，这一读者定位决定了稿件既须经得起同行评议的科学检验，也须能被政策讨论直接引用。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：[1]
- Water and environmental chemistry: the fate and removal of aquatic contaminants, groundwater and soil remediation, and the analysis of metals and organic pollutants.水与环境化学： 水体污染物的归趋与去除、地下水与土壤修复、金属与有机污染物分析。
- Atmosphere and climate change: atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, greenhouse gas fluxes, and air pollution control at the interface with climate policy.大气与气候变化： 大气化学与气溶胶、温室气体通量、空气污染控制与气候政策接口。
- Environmental catalysis and reaction processes: catalytic degradation and the synthesis of pollutant treatment, reaction engineering and process intensification.环境催化与反应过程： 催化降解与合成污染物处理、反应工程与过程强化。
- Toxicology and health effects: the toxicology of environmental contaminants, exposure assessment, endocrine disruptors and the risks of nanomaterials.毒理与健康影响： 环境污染物毒理、暴露评估、内分泌干扰物与纳米材料风险。
- Environmental policy and sustainability: environmental policy analysis, life cycle assessment, circular economy and resource recovery.环境政策与可持续性： 环境政策分析、生命周期评价、循环经济与资源回收。
- Analytical methods and characterization: methods for environmental samples, novel sensing and monitoring technology, and environmental big data and modelling.分析方法与表征： 环境样品分析方法、新型传感与监测技术、环境大数据与建模。
The journal is now weekly, with volume and issue numbers advancing continuously through the year. The society publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a time to first decision for the title本刊现为周刊，年度卷期号连续推进。学会未公布本刊的录用比例与首决时长；开放获取的文章处理费由学会统一价目表规定，署名知识共享许可协议为 4500 美元，另有限制更严格的许可档次。学会的转型期刊计划已于 2024 年 12 月 31 日终止，学会说明终止后其转型期刊一律保持混合出版，本刊即属此列，故并非完全开放获取。 article processing charges for open access are set in the society's standard price list, at US$4,500 for the Creative Commons attribution licence, with cheaper tiers under more restrictive licences. The society's transformative journal programme ended on 31 December 2024, and the society states that its transformative journals remain hybrid publications thereafter this title is among them and is therefore not fully open access.[2]
History
- Founding context (1967): the journal was founded in 1967 with James J. Morgan of the California Institute of Technology as its founding editor. In the masthead for the society's sixtieth anniversary the journal recorded that Morgan launched the title sixty years ago and that its remit has not shifted since. The publisher has been the American Chemical Society throughout, with no change.创刊背景（1967年）： 本刊于 1967 年创刊，首任主编为加州理工学院的詹姆斯·摩根。学会在六十周年纪念刊的刊头词中记载：六十年前吉姆·摩根创办了本刊，此后的定位始终未变。出版方自创刊起一直是美国化学学会，从未变更。[3]
- Sixtieth anniversary (2026): 2026 marks sixty years since the journal's founding, and the society has organized a monthly themed series of special issues through the year on climate change and environmental questions, turning the anniversary into a run of related publications rather than a single retrospective article.六十周年与专题专辑（2026年）： 二〇二六年为本刊创刊六十周年，学会全年组织月度主题专辑围绕气候变化与环境议题展开，把这一周年纪念办成了一批连续出版物，而非单一的回望文章。[4]
- A substantive change in cadence: the journal was semi-monthly in its earlier years and is now weekly and close to continuous publication. Volume 59 of 2025 contained 58 issues at strict seven-day intervals, a rhythm matched to the review cycle of environmental papers and one structural reason for the journal's sustained position among its peers on impact factor.刊期的实质变化： 本刊早期为半月刊，现已改为周刊并接近连续出版。二〇二五年第 59 卷含 58 期，出刊日严格按七天间隔推进，这一节奏与学术环境论文的审稿周期相匹配，也是本刊影响因子在同类刊物中持续居前的一个结构性原因。[5]
- Change of publishing model (end of 2024): the society's transformative journal programme ended on 31 December 2024, and the society states that its transformative journals remain hybrid thereafter. This title belonged to the programme while it ran and returned to hybrid publication at its end出版模式调整（2024年底）： 学会的转型期刊计划已于 2024 年 12 月 31 日终止，学会明确说明终止后其转型期刊一律保持混合出版。本刊在计划期间曾属于转型期刊，终止后回到混合出版形态，未转为完全开放获取。 it did not become fully open access.[6]
- Metric standing: the journal records an impact factor of 12.2 for 2025, a five-year factor of 13.1 and a Scopus CiteScore of 18.9. The society publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a time to first decision for the title.指标水平： 本刊二〇二五年影响因子为 12.2、五年影响因子 13.1、斯科普斯引用分数 18.9。学会未公布本刊录用比例与首决时长。[7]
Editors
The journal runs on a single editor-in-chief with no deputy: the society's environmental portfolio page lists a deputy editor for several titles in the same portfolio and for this title lists only the editor-in-chief, which is what allows that structure to be inferred. Correspondingly the masthead names an executive editor and a senior executive editor alongside the editor-in-chief, who are executive management rather than co-editors, so the editorship has long been held by one person with concentrated responsibility. The society publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for the title.本刊实行单一主编制，不设副主编——学会的环境类期刊组合页为同一组合下的多本期刊都列出了副主编，独本刊只列主编一人，可以反证这一架构。与之相配的是本刊刊头除主编外另有执行编辑与高级执行编辑两位，属执行管理层而非共同主编，因此本刊的主编职位长期由一人担任、职责集中。学会不公布本刊的录用比例与审稿时长。[8]
- Julie B. Zimmerman (editor-in-chief since 2020): a professor at Yale University. In an interview in 2026 she described having been involved with the journal in four capacities in turn, as author, reviewer, associate editor and editor-in-chief. Her predecessor was David Sedlak of the University of California, Berkeley, who held the post from 2014 to 2020.朱莉·齐默曼（2020年起任）： 耶鲁大学教授，本刊主编。她本人曾以作者、审稿人、副主编、主编四种身份参与本刊，这一自述见于她二〇二六年的访谈。本刊前任主编为加州大学伯克利大学的戴维·塞德拉克，任期自 2014 年至 2020 年。[9]
- The current editorial layer: the 2026 masthead names Julie B. Zimmerman as editor-in-chief, Jordi Dachs as executive editor and Margaret S. Mills as senior executive editor, the latter two carrying executive responsibilities.当前编辑层： 二〇二六年本刊刊头署名朱莉·齐默曼为主编，若尔迪·达克斯为执行编辑，玛格丽特·米尔斯为高级执行编辑，后两位承担执行层面的事务。[10]
- Lineage of editors-in-chief: since its founding the journal has been led by James J. Morgan, Russell F. Christman, William H. Glaze, Jerald L. Schnoor, David Sedlak and Julie B. Zimmerman, a succession of six spanning six decades and accumulating alongside the journal's standing in the discipline.主编任职链： 本刊自创刊以来历经詹姆斯·摩根、拉塞尔·克里斯曼、威廉·格拉兹、杰拉德·施努尔、戴维·塞德拉克与朱莉·齐默曼六位主编，形成一条跨越六十年、与本刊学科地位同步积累的任职链。[8]
- Standing in the field: long among the most heavily cited titles in environmental science and technology, its papers are cited repeatedly in governance debate precisely because they address both scientific and policy readers, which gives the journal a distinctive mediating role between the two.学科地位： 本刊长期是环境科学与技术领域引用量最高的刊物之一，其论文因同时面向科学与政策两个读者群，而在环境治理的讨论中被反复引用，这一点使它在学术与政策之间承担着特殊的枢纽角色。[3]