Journal profile · ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions
ISSN 1747-7891 · eISSN 1878-0059 · Taylor & Francis
Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.21; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 150 days to acceptance (71 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 34 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Disaster Management and Resilience, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, together about 57.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is an innovative, interdisciplinary and international research journal addressing the human and policy dimensions of hazards. The journal addresses the full range of hazardous events from extreme geological, hydrological, atmospheric and biological events, such as earthquakes, floods, storms and epidemics, to technological failures and malfunctions, such as industrial explosions, fires and toxic material releases. Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is the source of the new ideas in hazards and risk research. With a genuinely international perspective, this journal highlights issues of human exposure, vulnerability, awareness, response and risk. The role of hazards in affecting development, and issues of efficiency, social justice and sustainability are also explored in the journal. Well-known conventional hazards receive extensive coverage but submissions about new forms of hazard, emerging risk management institutions and restructuring of ideas about hazards – including their role in human affairs – are particularly welcome. Reinvigorating the debate about how we define, understand and manage hazards, the Journal is interdisciplinary in scope and open to contributions by specialists from a wide range of fields who are interested in the effects of hazards events on people, property and societies. Peer Review Statement Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Editor-in-chief Edmund Penning-RowsellPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 25%); most named United Kingdom 2, Mainland China 1, Australia 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Disaster Management and ResilienceSocial Sciences31.2%
- Flood Risk Assessment and ManagementEnvironmental Science18.4%
- Climate Change, Adaptation, MigrationSocial Sciences7.9%
- Disaster Response and ManagementHealth Professions6.2%
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones ResearchEarth and Planetary Sciences4.8%
- Risk Perception and ManagementSocial Sciences3.6%
- Agricultural risk and resilienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.2%
- Climate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIECAB AbstractsGeoRefPublisher website
Other: CNKI, CNKI China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Current Geographical Publications, Elsevier Geobase, Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, VINITI Abstracts Journal
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
- 2.21LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.64Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.11LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.11Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 79OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 407OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.06OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 12.12%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 93,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 755 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 | 10 | 11 |
| 2025 | 34 | 9 | 80 |
| 2024 | 44 | 19 | 236 |
| 2023 | 41 | 8 | 223 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4 | 177 |
| 2021 | 26 | 8 | 473 |
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
150 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 108 days – 177 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (71 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 159 days
- Sample
- 71 articles with submission and acceptance dates (77 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 46 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Environmental Hazards is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and r…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Statement
Double anonymized peer review; online submission via ScholarOne. Model summary
Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1747-7891
- Electronic ISSN
- 1878-0059
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 25, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions
What CAS zone is Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.21; CiteScore 5.4, h-index 79.
How long does peer review take at Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions?
Based on the dates recorded on 71 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 150 days (interquartile range 108–177 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. 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 Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions based?
Of the 4 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 25%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (2), Mainland China (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists SCIE, CAB Abstracts and GeoRef; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions open access, and what is the APC?
Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .