Environmental Management

Environmental Management is published by Springer US 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 Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Legal and Regulatory Analysis and Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies, together about 21.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Environmental Management publishes research on the assessment, use, conservation, and management of the environment and natural resources. Contributions are drawn from scholars, policy makers, managers, and practitioners from diverse fields that span the natural, social, health, engineering, and sustainability sciences, typically reflecting interdisciplinary approaches in the broad field of environmental management. Founded by Robert S. De Santo, PhD, the journal serves to improve cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange, and to make ideas and results from any one field available to researchers and environmental practitioners and decision makers from other backgrounds. All submissions need to examine a clearly articulated scholarly and/or management problem and discuss the implications of the findings for an international audience before they can be reviewed for Environmental Management. Review papers are considered provided they have a clear rationale and conceptual and methodological approach, and that the findings advance knowledge and understanding rather than only synthesize current knowledge and gaps. Case study research is also appropriate, provided that the results and lessons emerging are of relevance to an international audience. Descriptions of environmental conditions are not appropriate for the journal. Society has a major responsibility to ensure that its impacts on, and use of, the environment and resources are understood and appropriately managed. Environmental Management facilitates this by disseminating the work of both academic researchers and professionals from outside the universities and colleges, including those in business, government, research establishments, and public interest groups. The aim is to present a wide spectrum of viewpoints and approaches. The journal publishes four types of papers: Forum Addresses and opinions about environmental matters and emerging scientific and management issues that are of international relevance. Reflections from decision makers and practitioners communicating lessons learned from practice for improved environmental management are especially encouraged. These are shorter papers, normally less than 3,000 words, including references. Policy Brief Analyses or evaluations of case-histories, events, policies, or organizations and their work as it relates to environmental management. Although policy papers are often focused on specific contexts, the issues addressed and the results and are intended to b

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Environmental Sciences

Editor-in-chief Bram NoblePublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 16, Canada 12, United Kingdom 4, India 4, Mainland China 3 (61 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

3.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

102LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

194OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,457OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.03OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

42.08%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

234LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

2,025Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

1,300,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Average review time (community reports)

9–24 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Springer US

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1977

ISSN

0364-152X

Electronic ISSN

1432-1009

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website