Environmental Modelling & Software

Environmental Modelling & Software is published by Elsevier BV and is in Zone 2 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Water resources management and optimization, together about 34.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Official Journal of the International Environmental Modelling & Software SocietyEnvironmental Modelling & Software publishes contributions, in the form of research articles, reviews, introductory overviews, and position papers on advances in the area of environmental modelling and software. Our aim is to improve our capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behaviour of natural environmental systems, including air, water, and land components, at all practical scales, and to communicate those improvements to a wide scientific and professional audience.It seeks presentation of: • Generic frameworks, techniques and issues which either integrate a range of disciplines and sectors or apply across a range • Model development, model evaluation, process identification and applications in diverse sectors of the environment (as outlined below) provided they reveal insights and contribute to the store of knowledge. Insights can relate to the generality and limitations of the modelling, methods, the model application and/or the systems modelled. Insights should be ones that are generalizable in some way and are likely to be of interest to those studying other systems and, preferably, other system types. • Development and application of environmental software, information and decision support systems • Real-world applications of software technologies - particularly state-of-the-art environmental software able to deal with complex requirements, conflicting user perspectives, and/or evolving data structures. Aspects related to software usability, reliability, verification and validation should be backed up with quantitative results as much as possible. Development and maintenance costs, and adoption and penetration of the software in the target user groups should be addressed. Licensing issues and open source access should be clearly specified. • Issues and methods related to the integrated modeling, assessment and management of environmental systems - including relevant policy and institutional analysis, public participation principles and methods, decision making methods, model integration, quality assurance and evaluation of models, data and procedures.Authors must specify clearly the objectives of their models and/or software, and report on the essential steps that were used in their development, normally including the rationale for the type of approach selected and substantial testing and evaluation of it - comparisons with alternative approaches and methods are encouraged. The purpose of this specification, evaluation and reporting is to convey the rigour and credibility of the work and therefore its potential to contribute to knowledge acquisition. To this latter end, authors are expected to briefly review and cite the historical progress made for their problem and clearly show how their work adds value to the literature.Authors are invited to submit relevant contributions in the following areas: • Generic and pervasive frameworks, techniques and issues - including system identification theory and practice, model conception, model integration, model and/or software evaluation, sensitivity and uncertainty assessment, visualization, scale and regionalization issues. • Integrated assessment and management of systems (river basins, regions etc.) for enhancing sustainability outcomes - including linked socioeconomic and biophysical models that may be developed with stakeholders for understanding systems, communication and learning, and improving system outcomes. • Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and systems, such as knowledge-based systems / expert systems, case-based reasoning systems, data mining, multi-agent systems, Bayesian networks, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, or knowledge elicitation and knowledge acquisition methods. • Decision support systems and environmental information systems- implementation and use of environmental data and models to support all phases and aspects of decision making, in par

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Environmental

Editor-in-chief Min ChenPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 14 in mainland China (about 16%); most named United States 22, Australia 16, Mainland China 14, Italy 9, Netherlands 7 (89 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

5.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

5.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

8.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

8.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.34LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

112LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

213OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,040OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.44OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

13.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

42.24%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

418LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Average review time (community reports)

about 18 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

6 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

76 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

159 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

3 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single 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.

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.

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

Elsevier BV

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1997

ISSN

1364-8152

Electronic ISSN

1873-6726

Society / sponsor

International Environmental Modelling & Software Society

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website