GeoHealth

GeoHealth is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), launched in 2017 and devoted to research at the intersection of the Earth and environmental sciences and health sciences, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.0.《地球健康》（GeoHealth）由（Wiley）代表美国地球物理联合会（AGU）出版，2017 年创刊，为金色开放获取期刊，专注地球与环境科学同健康科学的交叉研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.0。

Scope

• The journal covers environmental and occupational health, and the effects of outdoor and indoor air quality and pollution on human populations.刊物覆盖环境与职业健康，以及室外与室内空气质量及污染对人群的影响。
• Food safety and security, and water quality, wastewater treatment and water availability, are standing topics.食品安全与保障，以及水质、废水处理与水资源可获得性是常设主题。
• Climate change in relation to human, agricultural and environmental health and disease is a central concern, as are soil and ecosystem health and services.气候变化与人类、农业及环境健康和疾病的关系是核心关切，土壤健康与生态系统健康及其服务同样如此。
• Environmentally related epidemiology, and the effects of climate change on exposure to pathogens, are explicitly listed.与环境相关的流行病学，以及气候变化对病原体暴露的影响，均在明确列出的范围之内。
• Geoethics, together with national and international law and policy and remediation around geohealth issues, is treated as part of the journal's remit.地球伦理，以及围绕地球健康议题的国家与国际法律、政策与修复措施，被视为刊物职责的一部分。
• The journal also addresses global public health, geomedicine, radiation and health, and the health effects of disasters.刊物还涉及全球公共卫生、地理医学、辐射与健康，以及灾害的健康影响。
• Articles appear as original research, reviews, policy discussions and commentaries, with the journal operating under an open licence.文章形式包括原创研究、综述、政策讨论与评论，刊物采用开放许可发布。

History

• AGU announced the journal in August 2016 as the first step of a wider initiative to embrace the emerging field of geohealth.美国地球物理联合会于 2016 年 8 月宣布创办本刊，作为其拥抱新兴地球健康领域的整体举措的第一步。
• GeoHealth was launched in partnership with Wiley as an open access title, and its first issue appeared in February 2017.《地球健康》与（Wiley）合作以开放获取形式创办，首期于 2017 年 2 月出版。
• Rita Colwell, a former director of the National Science Foundation, served as the founding editor.曾任美国国家科学基金会主任的（Rita Colwell）担任创始主编。
• Gabriel Filippelli of Indiana University Indianapolis took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2018 and led the journal for five and a half years.印第安纳大学印第安纳波利斯校区的（Gabriel Filippelli）于 2018 年接任主编，领导刊物五年半。
• The journal received its first Journal Impact Factor, 3.66, in the 2020 Journal Citation Reports, and won PROSE Awards in 2019.刊物在 2020 年《期刊引证报告》中首次获得影响因子 3.66，并于 2019 年获得 PROSE 奖。
• AGU established a GeoHealth section shortly after the journal, so that the publication sits alongside a dedicated community of Earth and health scientists.刊物创办后不久，美国地球物理联合会设立了地球健康分会，使刊物与专门的地球与健康科学群体相伴而行。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.0, after 3.8 in 2024 and 6.343 in 2022, and it ranks in the first quartile of public, environmental and occupational health.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.0，此前 2024 年为 3.8、2022 年为 6.343，在公共卫生、环境与职业健康类别中位列一区。

Editors

• Helen Nguyen, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, became Editor-in-Chief in 2024.（Helen Nguyen）为伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校环境工程教授，2024 年起担任主编。
• Nguyen's research programme focuses on pathogen transmission and control, work that maps closely onto the journal's scope.（Nguyen）的研究方向为病原体的传播与控制，与刊物的报道范围高度契合。
• Gabriel Filippelli, who led the journal from 2018, remains associated with the growth of its special collections.自 2018 年起领导刊物的（Gabriel Filippelli）与刊物专刊体系的发展密切相关。
• The editorial board includes figures from public health policy and environmental medicine, among them John Balbus of Climate Care Consulting.编委会成员包括公共卫生政策与环境医学领域的学者，如气候关怀咨询公司的（John Balbus）。
• The journal publishes an early career editorial board and a Rising Stars programme to bring new editors into the process.刊物设有青年编委会与「Rising Stars」计划，以吸纳新一代编辑参与审稿流程。
• Submission volumes grew from about three manuscripts a month in 2018 to roughly fifteen a month by 2023, with a peak of twenty-four.投稿量从 2018 年每月约 3 篇增长到 2023 年的每月约 15 篇，最高单月达 24 篇。
• Authors are asked to frame their work for a convergent audience, since the journal's readership spans geoscientists, ecologists and health professionals.由于读者横跨地球科学家、生态学家与卫生专业人员，刊物要求作者面向跨学科读者组织论述。