Environmental Science & Technology

Environmental Science & Technology is published by American Chemical Society and is in Zone 1 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Air Quality and Health Impacts, together about 27.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

ES&T is an impactful environmental science and technology research journal that aims to be transformational and direction-setting, publishing rigorous and robust papers for a multidisciplinary and diverse audience of scientists, policy makers and the broad environmental community. For more than 50 years, ES&T has been a foundational focus for thought-leading, policy-changing contributions and will continue to serve as the home for significant, broadly relevant, and generalizable research that serves to inform decision-making. The journal advances rigorous scholarship on complex environmental phenomena, particularly with respect to fate, transport, and transformation in natural and engineered systems, while simultaneously facilitating the solution of critical environmental problems. In addition to novelty and significance of research, ES&T considers the relevance of submitted manuscripts to its broad readership. ES&T has been at the forefront of the environmental science and technology movement, serving the environmental community as a top-tier, respected, reliable and pivotal venue for exceptional, world-class environmental research across a broad and diverse range of environmentally relevant topics. Prospective authors are encouraged to review recent issues of ES&T to gain an understanding of the topics that are of greatest interest to the journal’s readers, and they are expected to establish in their cover letters the relevance of their submissions to the ES&T community. Prospective authors are also directed to the ES&T Author Guidelines for further details on the full scope of the journal, novelty and quality expectations, and minimum requirements. ES&T combines research and magazine sections and is published both in print and online.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Environmental

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

12.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

18.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

3.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.15LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

345LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

595OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

42,341OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

11.31OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

21.16%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

2,397LetPub · 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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 2.9 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

80%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Biweekly

Founded

1967

ISSN

0013-936X

Electronic ISSN

1520-5851

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub