Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste is published by the American Society of Civil Engineers and its title names three waste streams instead of one.《Journal of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste》由美国土木工程师学会出版，题目点的是三股废物流，不是一股。
The subject is waste that is dangerous by chemistry, by toxicity or by radioactivity, and the method is engineering. Containment, treatment, transport and closure are the working verbs.主题是凭化学性质、毒性或放射性而危险的废物，方法是工程。包容、处理、迁移与封场是这里的工作动词。
Soil and groundwater contamination is the largest single block. Soil appears in 101 of the 912 titles in the deposit, and heavy metals in 32 of them.土壤与地下水污染是最大的一块。存录的 912 个标题里，土壤出现 101 次，重金属出现 32 次。
Wastewater and leachate treatment follow close behind. Enzymatic phenol removal with laccase, electrocoagulation for arsenic and adsorption columns all appear as bench work with a site in mind.废水与渗滤液处理紧随其后。漆酶催化除酚、电絮凝除砷与吸附柱，都是以某处场地为念的台架工作。
Landfills get 59 titles. Clay liners treated with cross-linked biopolymer, cover systems, settlement prediction and even bin allocation for municipal collection are inside that set.填埋场占了 59 个标题。交联生物聚合物处理的黏土衬垫、覆盖层系统、沉降预测，乃至市政收运的垃圾箱布点，都在这个集合里。
Radioactive waste is the smaller third of the scope and the most specialised. Glass matrices for containment, uranium in groundwater and cementitious conditioning account for 20 titles.放射性废物是范围里较小的三分之一，也最专门。包容用的玻璃基体、地下水中的铀与水泥固化，合计 20 个标题。
Resource recovery has grown into a standing theme. Anaerobic digestion appears 13 times, microbial fuel cells 18 times, and nutrient recovery from food-waste digestate is now a normal subject.资源回收长成了常设主题。厌氧消化出现 13 次，微生物燃料电池 18 次，从餐厨垃圾沼渣里回收养分已是常规题目。
Emerging contaminants have a foothold. Microplastics appear in seven titles and pharmaceuticals in six, usually as a measurement problem before a treatment problem.新兴污染物站住了一角。微塑料出现在七个标题里，药物出现在六个里，通常先是测量问题，然后才是处理问题。
Modelling runs beside the bench. Fuzzy rule-based prediction of metal partition coefficients, factorial design for process optimisation and life-cycle accounting are ordinary methods here.建模与台架并行。金属分配系数的模糊规则预测、工艺优化的析因设计、生命周期核算，在这里都是常规手段。
The papers are civil engineering papers. Design, construction, monitoring and closure are argued with specifications and cost, not with mechanisms alone.论文是土木工程的论文。设计、施工、监测与封场要靠规范与造价来论，不能只讲机理。
Site cases carry weight. A Superfund canal screened for contamination and a refinery sludge characterised for reuse both read as records of what a site actually did.场地案例有分量。一条做过污染筛查的超级基金运河，一份为再利用而表征的炼油污泥，读起来都是场地真实作为的记录。
Discussion and closure are live genres. Five discussions with their closures run from 2014 to 2022, and errata appear in 2018, 2021 and 2024.讨论与答复是活的文体。五组讨论与答复从 2014 年排到 2022 年，勘误出现在 2018 年、2021 年与 2024 年。
Nothing is open access in the gold sense. The journal is sold by subscription on the society's own platform, and the deposit records no article processing charges.没有金色开放获取可言。刊物在学会自己的平台上按订阅出售，存录里也没有文章处理费的记录。
History
The present title begins in 2011 with volume 15. Volume 1 of the numbering belongs to a different journal published from 1997.现在这个刊名从 2011 年的第 15 卷开始。编号里的第 1 卷属于另一份刊物，从 1997 年办起。
The predecessor was the Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, whose volumes 1 to 14 ran from 1997 to 2010 under a practice-oriented brief.前身是《Practice Periodical of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste Management》，第 1 到第 14 卷从 1997 年办到 2010 年，定位偏实务。
When the name changed, the society carried the volume numbers across rather than restarting. The archive therefore reads as one run of thirty-one volumes with a seam at 15.改名时学会把卷号直接带了过来，没有重新起算。于是整份存档读起来是三十一卷的连续长卷，接缝在第 15 卷。
Volume 15 holds 44 records. Four years later the count is still 40, and the middle of the decade stays between 38 and 57.第 15 卷有 44 条记录。四年之后仍是 40 条，这个十年中段一直在 38 到 57 条之间。
Every volume from 15 to 30 carries exactly four issues. Quarterly is a fact of the deposit, not just a claim on the cover.第 15 到第 30 卷，每卷正好四期。季刊在这里是存录里的事实，不只是封面上的说法。
The fattest years are 2020 and 2021, at 88 and 86 records, roughly double the 2019 volume. Online-first publication is where that difference comes from.最厚的年份是 2020 与 2021，分别 88 条与 86 条，差不多是 2019 卷的两倍。差别出在先行在线发表上。
Volume 31 carries 2027 dates and nine items. The deposit runs ahead of the calendar, so a reader counting years will meet the next one early.第 31 卷标着 2027 年，只有九条。存录跑在日历前面，按年份数数的读者会提前撞见下一年。
Article identifiers follow the society's scheme, a journal code followed by a serial number. Both the queue and the volume are visible in the strings.文章编号按学会的规则来，刊物代码后面接序号。队列位置与所属卷次都能从这串字符里看出来。
The DOI prefix is 10.1061, which belongs to the society. Nothing in the deposit points to a third-party publisher or a hosting transfer.DOI 前缀是 10.1061，归学会所有。存录里没有任何迹象指向第三方出版方或托管迁移。
The journal sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. It is not in the Science Citation Index Expanded, and the distinction still matters to authors weighing a submission.这份刊物在新兴来源引文索引里，不在科学引文索引扩展版，这个区别对衡量投稿去向的作者仍然要紧。
Its impact factor moved from 2.1 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025. The five-year figure is 2.2, which is below the current year.影响因子从 2023 年的 2.1 走到 2024 年的 2.2，再到 2025 年的 2.4。五年值是 2.2，低于当年值。
The citation base is 1,292 references with a half-life of 4.7 years and a JCI of 0.25. The percentile is 24.4 in engineering, environmental, at 67 of 88 titles.引用基数是 1292 次，半衰期 4.7 年，JCI 为 0.25。环境工程类的百分位是 24.4，88 种刊物里排第 67。
The National Library of Medicine indexes the title as J Hazard Toxic Radioact Waste from 2011 but lists no indexing source, which is the catalogue's way of saying it is not in MEDLINE.美国国家医学图书馆从 2011 年起把刊名缩写记作 J Hazard Toxic Radioact Waste，却没有列出收录来源，这是目录在说它不在 MEDLINE 里。
A retraction was published in 2016 for a 2011 paper on synthesis and characterisation. The record keeps the notice under its own title rather than deleting the original.2016 年针对 2011 年一篇合成与表征的论文刊出撤稿声明。记录把声明单独立条，没有删掉原文。
Editors
The Editor's Note is the journal's front-matter genre. In the first volumes it runs in every issue and carries a signature.编者按是这份刊物的前置页文体。最初几卷里它每期都有，并且署名。
Rao Y. Surampalli signs the notes in volumes 15, 16 and 17, four issues apiece. Those twelve notes are the clearest statement of editorial intent in the open record.第 15 卷、第 16 卷与第 17 卷的编者按由 Rao Y. Surampalli 署名，每卷四篇。这十二篇是公开记录里最清楚的编辑意图陈述。
From volume 18 the note stops appearing under its own title in the deposit. Whether it continued in print is not something the metadata answers.从第 18 卷起，编者按不再以独立标题出现在存录里。它在纸面上是否延续，元数据回答不了。
The masthead is not deposited either, so editors are visible only where a byline survives. For most of the run there is no name attached to the desk.编委名单同样没有存录，所以编辑只能从留下的署名里看到。长卷的大部分时候，那张桌子没有名字。
Reviewers are named once a year. Sixteen lists appear between 2011 and 2027, one to a volume, usually in the first or second issue.审稿人一年点名一次。2011 年到 2027 年间出现十六份名单，一卷一份，多在第一或第二期。
The list is a transparency device rather than a credit line. It shows the size and spread of the pool without attributing any report to any paper.名单是透明装置，不是功劳簿。它显示审稿池的规模与分布，却不把任何一份意见归到任何一篇论文上。
The editorial office sits with the society in Reston, Virginia, which is also the imprint address in the catalogue record. Production, proofs and permissions run from there.编辑部随学会设在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿，那也是目录记录里的出版地。排版、校样与授权都从那里发出。
Three waste streams under one editor is the structural bet. A single submission route serves soil, water and radiological work, and the scope statement does the sorting.三股废物流归一位主编，是这份刊物的结构赌注。一条投稿路径同时服务土壤、水与放射性方向，分流靠范围说明来做。
Submissions go through the society's platform, where the author guidelines and the roster sit. There is no separate manuscript office to write to.投稿走学会的平台，作者指南与名单都在那里。没有另设的稿件办公室可以写信过去。
The early notes set expectations for a renamed journal. They explain what carried over from the practice periodical and what the editors wanted to add.早期的编者按替一份改了名的刊物立规矩。它们说明哪些从前身实务期刊带过来，哪些是编辑想添的。
Practice orientation shows in who is asked to review. Site reports, permit files and monitoring records come with an agency or a consultancy attached, and the annual list reflects that mixture.实务定位体现在请谁审稿上。场地报告、许可证卷宗与监测记录都连着某个机构或顾问公司，年度名单反映的就是这种混杂。
Corrections are handled in the open. Discussions, closures, errata and a retraction each sit as their own deposited item, which keeps the exchange citable.更正摆在明面上。讨论、答复、勘误与一次撤稿各占一条存录，这样往还本身也可被引用。