News from Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts

Welcome to the first issue of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts in 2016. This year there are a number of exciting changes to the Journal which I would like to inform you about through this Editorial, whilst reflecting on the changes and highlights of 2015.

Editorial Board membership

At the end of last year Frank Wania finished his term as Chair of the Editorial Board, and I would like to thank Frank for guiding the Journal through a change of name, and shaping the direction of the Journal during his time as Chair of the Editorial Board.

Steve Mudge also finished his role as Associate Editor on the Journal. During his time as Associate Editor, Steve managed the peer-review for many papers, maintaining the high quality of the Journal. Steve also managed a number of themed issues for the Journal, and I would like to thank Steve for his significant contribution.

We also said goodbye to two of our Editorial Board members, Young-Shin Jun and Nora Savage. Both Young-Shin and Nora helped develop the Journal through their roles on the Editorial Board and I would like to thank them both for their guidance of the Journal.

We will continue to benefit from Frank, Steve, Young-Shin and Nora's guidance as they are all joining the Advisory Board of the Journal, continuing to have input into the future direction of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

Highlights from 2015

Last year Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts received its first partial impact factor of 2.1, which reflects the citations to the content published in 2014. I would like to thank our authors and reviewers for this significant achievement.

We also published two themed issues, reflecting the diverse scope of the Journal. The first was a collection of papers assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltas guest edited by Paul Whitehead, Robert Nicholls, Judith Wolf, Munsur Rahman and Mashfiqus Salehin. These research papers investigated the impacts of environmental change in India and Bangladesh. The second was a collection of papers focused on waste and recycling: sources and resources, which was guest edited by Hans Peter Arp from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. Papers addressed a wide range of concerns related to how current changes in waste handling and management are impacting the environment at the global and local level.

Introducing the new Editor-in-Chief

I am delighted to announce that Kris McNeill from ETH Zürich will be taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief from this year. Kris has been an active member of the Editorial Board for a number of years, and has been a great supporter of both the Journal and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Together, Kris and I plan to make a number of changes to the Journal going forwards, and Kris will shortly be presenting his vision for the Journal, and announcing some of these changes, in an Editorial.

Environmental Science journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Last year we launched another sister journal to Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts – Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, which is led by Editor-in-Chief David Cwiertny and his team. The journal publishes research on innovative technologies that promote sustainable water resources and has had a great first year.

We are looking to have more joint efforts between our environmental science journals and from this year we will be introducing an Environmental Science Twitter account (@EnvSciRSC). By following us you can keep up to date with the research published in our three environmental science journals and relevant activities from across the Royal Society of Chemistry.

We are also planning two environmental science symposia in China this year, to be hosted at the respective institutions of Environmental Science team members Lizhong Zhu and Liang-Hong Guo. More details will follow shortly.

And finally…

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our authors, reviewers and readers for their support over the last year, and look forward to your continued support of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts as it grows from strength-to-strength over the coming years.

 

With best wishes for a successful 2016.

 

Sarah Ruthven

Editor, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts

Royal Society of Chemistry

E-mail: espi-rsc@rsc.org

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