Journal profile · Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental Evidence
ISSN 2047-2382 · BioMed Central · ENGLAND · Founded 2011
Environmental Evidence: CAS Zone 3 · Environmental Science & Ecology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.97; fully open access; APC about USD 2,790; median 200 days to acceptance (41 articles, last 24 months); 26 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Environmental Evidence is published by BioMed Central and is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Species Distribution and Climate Change, together about 23.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Environmental Evidence publishes objective scientific evidence to inform policy and practice by publishing evidence syntheses (including meta-analyses) relevant to environmental management. The journal is managed by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) and facilitates rapid publication of rigorous evidence syntheses, in the form of Systematic Reviews, Rapid Reviews and Systematic Maps, conducted to CEE Guidelines and Standards. Our scope covers the realm of environmental science and management broadly recognizing the interdisciplinary nature of the field which spans the natural and social sciences and extends from identifying environmental threats and problems, evaluating environmental interventions, assessing human impacts on the environment, to generating and testing environmental solutions. Subjects include but are not limited to climate change, natural resource management, forestry, fisheries, biodiversity conservation, invasive species, ecosystem services, environmental impacts on human wellbeing, sustainable energy, water security, agriculture, soil management, food security, sustainable food production and consumption, One Health, waste and wastewater management, pollution, clean growth, ecotoxicology, environmental justice, environmental governance, environmental legislation and environmental education. We recognize that traditional evidence synthesis and decision making has excluded Indigenous knowledge systems and other ways of knowing and welcome contributions that explore approaches for doing such work in a more inclusive manner. Despite the large and rapidly increasing amounts of primary environmental research, the potential of the data to address questions of concern to policy makers and managers has not been fully realised. This journal and CEE promotes and facilitates the conduct and use of evidence syntheses and seeks to make evidence more accessible to all through open access publishing of papers on all aspects of environmental science and management. To this end we also publish the following paper types. Objective use of scientific evidence to inform policy or practice is a major aim and to that end the Journal also publishes methodology papers and encourages submissions that promise advances in the field of evidence synthesis, including methodological contributions to advance co-design processes used in syntheses, communication of findings or evidence uptake. We also welcome empirical natural or social science studies that
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Editor-in-chief Biljana MacuraPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 8, United States 3, Canada 3, Australia 3, Sweden 2 (27 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementEnvironmental Science9.3%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesEnvironmental Science8.9%
- Species Distribution and Climate ChangeEnvironmental Science5.6%
- Wildlife Ecology and ConservationEnvironmental Science5.4%
- Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesEnvironmental Science5.4%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems StudiesEnvironmental Science4.8%
- Fish Ecology and Management StudiesEnvironmental Science4.7%
- Coastal and Marine ManagementEnvironmental Science4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 6.97LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.05LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.95LetPub ·
- h-index
- 68OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 286OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.23OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 22LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 751,400Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 428 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 14 | 8 |
| 2025 | 26 | 26 | 120 |
| 2024 | 29 | 29 | 302 |
| 2023 | 31 | 31 | 997 |
| 2022 | 39 | 39 | 1,108 |
| 2021 | 39 | 39 | 893 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
200 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 151 days – 241 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 21 days (41 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 227 days
- Sample
- 41 articles with submission and acceptance dates (47 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 17 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 17 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 2,390 / USD 2,790 / GBP 2,190 | Yes | CC BY, CC0 | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,690 / EUR 2,290 / GBP 2,090 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,990 / USD 2,590 / EUR 2,190 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 2,190 / USD 2,790 / EUR 2,390 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted9
- analysis: evidence in actionAnalysis: Evidence in ActionLength not stated
- commentaryCommentaryLength not stated
- methodologyMethodologyLength not stated
- perspective: evidence in actionPerspective: Evidence in ActionLength not stated
- rapid reviewRapid ReviewLength not stated
- systematic mapSystematic MapLength not stated
- systematic map protocolSystematic Map ProtocolLength not stated
- systematic reviewSystematic ReviewLength not stated
- systematic review protocolSystematic Review ProtocolLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Submission by author only Model summary
Please note that a manuscript can only be submitted by an author of the manuscript and may not be submitted by a third party.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
CC0 data policy Model summary
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
CC BY licence Model summary
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Environmental Evidence articles are published open access under a CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 In…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2011
- ISSN
- 2047-2382
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Environmental Evidence
What CAS zone is Environmental Evidence in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Environmental Evidence is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Environmental Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Environmental Science & Ecology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Environmental Evidence?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.97; CiteScore 11.4, h-index 68.
How long does peer review take at Environmental Evidence?
Based on the dates recorded on 41 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 200 days (interquartile range 151–241 days); authors report an average review time of about 17 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Environmental Evidence based?
Of the 27 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (8), United States (3) and Canada (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Environmental Evidence?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Environmental Evidence is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Environmental Evidence open access, and what is the APC?
Environmental Evidence is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,790.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .