Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters is a fully open access, online-only journal published by Elsevier as a partner title to Journal of Hazardous Materials, founded in 2020 and focused on hazardous materials and contaminants of emerging concern, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.0《危险材料快报》（Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters）是由（Elsevier）出版的完全开放获取纯在线期刊，为（Journal of Hazardous Materials）的姊妹刊，2020 年创办，专注危险材料与新兴关注污染物，2025 年影响因子为 9.0。

Scope

• The journal publishes research articles of exceptional importance and immediate impact, together with frontier reviews on hazardous materials and contaminants of emerging concern该刊发表具有重要性和即时影响力的研究论文，以及关于危险材料与新兴关注污染物的前沿综述。
• Covered topics include the characterization of the harmful effects of hazardous materials and contaminants of emerging concern其覆盖主题包括危险材料与新兴关注污染物有害效应的表征。
• Advances in measurement and monitoring, and the transport and fate of contaminants in the environment, are central areas测量与监测的进展，以及污染物在环境中的迁移与归趋，是核心领域。
• Impact assessment and mitigation, and physicochemical treatment and bioremediation, are also within scope影响评估与缓解，以及物理化学处理与生物修复，也在收录范围内。
• The journal welcomes demonstrated safer and cleaner technologies and resource recovery from hazardous materials that reduce their hazardous effects该刊欢迎经验证更安全清洁的技术，以及能降低危险效应的危险材料资源回收。
• Environmental epidemiology is covered, while workplace health and safety and municipal wastewater treatment for routine organics are excluded环境流行病学在收录之列，而职业健康与安全以及针对常规有机物的市政污水处理则不在范围之内。
• The journal publishes in a rapid open access format designed for immediate dissemination of scientific data该刊以快速开放获取形式出版，旨在即时传播科学数据。

History

• The journal was launched in 2020 by Elsevier as a partner title to the long-established Journal of Hazardous Materials该刊由（Elsevier）于 2020 年创办，是历史悠久期刊（Journal of Hazardous Materials）的姊妹刊。
• The parent journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, was established in 1975, and the letters journal carries its subject coverage into a shorter format母刊（Journal of Hazardous Materials）创办于 1975 年，本快报刊将其学科领域延伸至更短篇幅的文章形式。
• It is an online-only journal identified by the electronic number 2666-9110 and carries no separate print edition该刊为纯在线期刊，电子刊号为 2666-9110，无独立纸本版本。
• Articles are published as they are ready and compiled into annual volumes论文在准备就绪后即行出版，并汇编为年度卷。
• The article publishing charge is USD 1250 excluding taxes, and the fee was waived for submissions received before 31 July 2023其文章处理费为 1250 美元（不含税），2023 年 7 月 31 日前收到的投稿免收该费用。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 8.1 in 2024 to 9.0 in 2025其影响因子由 2024 年的 8.1 升至 2025 年的 9.0。

Editors

• Shaily Mahendra of the University of California Los Angeles, United States, is the editor-in-chief, working on environmental microbiology and bioremediation主编（Shaily Mahendra）来自美国（University of California Los Angeles），从事环境微生物学与生物修复研究。
• The handling editors include Ramesh Goel of the University of Utah and Sung Hwa Jhung of Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea责任编辑包括（University of Utah）的（Ramesh Goel）与韩国（Kyungpook National University）的（Sung Hwa Jhung）。
• Further editors are Anu Kumar of Adelaide University, Australia, Angela Yu-Chen Lin of National Taiwan University and Arjun Venkatesan of the New Jersey Institute of Technology其他编辑包括澳大利亚（Adelaide University）的（Anu Kumar）、（National Taiwan University）的（Angela Yu-Chen Lin）与（New Jersey Institute of Technology）的（Arjun Venkatesan）。
• The editorial board has 43 members across 18 countries, with the largest groups from the United States, China and Spain编委会由 18 个国家的 43 位成员组成，其中人数最多的是美国、中国与西班牙。
• A social media editor team and an early career advisory board support the journal该刊设有社交媒体编辑团队与青年顾问编委会。
• The journal is peer reviewed, with an initial screening, internal evaluation and external review该刊实行同行评审，流程包括初筛、内部评估与外部评审。