Archives of Environmental Protection

Archives of Environmental Protection is published by Polish Academy of Sciences and is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Heavy metals in environment, Integrated Water Resources Management and Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, together about 24.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Water Science and Technology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Website update This page is the archival website of Archives of Enviromental Protection in the journals.pan.pl service. It is no longer updated and remains available as an archive of previously published volumes and articles. The current official website of the journal, including latest issues, submission information, editorial policies, author guidelines, and contact details, is available here: https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/aep The website address has been changed as part of the modernization of the publishing platform of the Polish Academy of Sciences, aimed at improving the clarity, accessibility, and consistency of journal information. Archives of Environmental Protection is the oldest Polish scientific journal of international scope that publishes articles on engineering and environmental protection. The quarterly has been published by the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences since 1975. The journal has served as a forum for the exchange of views and ideas among scientists. It has become part of scientific life in Poland and abroad. The quarterly publishes the results of research and scientific inquiries by best specialists hereby becoming an important pillar of science. The journal facilitates better understanding of environmental risks to humans and ecosystems and it also shows the methods for their analysis as well as trends in the search of effective solutions to minimize these risks. Copyright on any open access article in the Archives of Environmental Protection journal published by Polish Academy of Sciences is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Polish Academy of Sciences a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any user the right to use the article freely if its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0) formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles. The editorial team of Archives of Environmental Protection implements an open access policy by publishing materials in the form of the so-called Gold Open Access and encourages authors to place articles published in the journal in open repositories (after the review or the final version of the publisher), provided that a link to the journal’s website is provided. For the articles which were previously published, before year 2021,

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Environmental Sciences

Editor-in-chief Czesława Rosik-DulewskaPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.39LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.56LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

16LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

34OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

203OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.21OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

33.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

95.49%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

46LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Polish Academy of Sciences

Country or region

POLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

0324-8461

Print ISSN

2083-4772

Electronic ISSN

2083-4810

Society / sponsor

European Union L 435

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub