Journal profile · Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES
ISSN 0360-1234 · eISSN 1532-4109 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1976
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.11; subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 110 days to acceptance (99 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: about 50%; 53 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, together about 40.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B, Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes provides an outlet for original research reports on analytical techniques or improvements on existing methods applicable to residues of pesticides, veterinary drugs, antibiotics, food contaminants (natural and additive), and other organic and emerging chemical contaminants, and their metabolites in the ecosphere. The journal offers original factual reports on the chemistry, toxicology, persistence, binding, translocation, chemical and biodegradation, and metabolic fate of these chemicals; their effectual contamination of the biosphere; their environmental fate; methods of detoxification; and their toxicological considerations and consequences having a direct relation to human health. The journal also encompasses the development of integrated methods of pest control and various aspects of agricultural wastes, including treatment and disposal. The Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B also publishes special issues and review articles summarizing and analyzing the state-of-the-art within the aims and scope of the journal. Special issues consist of a group of peer-reviewed, invited research manuscripts in an area of current importance, or it may be a tribute issue commemorating the career of a distinguished researcher in the area of environmental science and health. If you wish to suggest a special issue of the journal, please email the Editor-in-Chief a detailed proposal that includes the topic, a list of potential contributors, and a timeline.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Lin Chew, ScD.Publisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 4, South Korea 1, India 1, Brazil 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental StudiesEnvironmental Science20%
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and SafetyAgricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental ImpactsEnvironmental Science9.9%
- Environmental Toxicology and EcotoxicologyEnvironmental Science7.6%
- Pesticide Exposure and ToxicityAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.7%
- Insect and Pesticide ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.7%
- Analytical chemistry methods developmentChemistry4.6%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants ImpactEnvironmental Science4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 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
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexMEDLINEEmbaseCASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, AGRICOLA, Analytical Abstracts, ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality, CAB AGBiotech News and Information, CAB Irrigation & Drainage Abstracts, CAB Soils & Fertilizers Abstracts, CSA Aluminum Industry Abstracts, CSA ANTE: Abstracts in New Technology and Engineering, CSA ASFA 3 Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality, CSA ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, CSA Ecology Abstracts, CSA Entomology Abstracts, CSA Environmental Engineering Abstracts, CSA Health & Safety Science Abstracts, CSA Pollution Abstracts, CSA Toxicology Abstracts, CSA Water Resource Abstracts, EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Environment Abstracts, Environmental Knowledge, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Geo Abstracts, Geobase, Food Science, INIST-Pascal/ CNRS, NIOSHTIC
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
- 2.11LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.44LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.44Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.59Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 45LetPub ·
- h-index
- 78OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,017OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.81OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 2.07%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 52LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 84,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,812 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 94 | 5 | 23 |
| 2025 | 53 | 5 | 74 |
| 2024 | 69 | 12 | 295 |
| 2023 | 75 | 9 | 464 |
| 2022 | 96 | 11 | 764 |
| 2021 | 94 | 14 | 864 |
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
110 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 68 days – 203 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (99 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 117 days
- Sample
- 99 articles with submission and acceptance dates (165 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 2 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 50%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 46 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 79 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal (Open Select). Model summary
Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B 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? Incr…
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 and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- Multi-Language
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1976
- ISSN
- 0360-1234
- Electronic ISSN
- 1532-4109
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 61, Issue 9 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES
What CAS zone is JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Sciences / Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.11; CiteScore 3.7, h-index 78.
How long does peer review take at JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES?
Based on the dates recorded on 99 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 110 days (interquartile range 68–203 days); authors report an average review time of about 2 months; the community-reported acceptance is “about 50%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14%. 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 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES based?
Of the 7 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (4), South Korea (1) and India (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, MEDLINE, Embase, CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES open access, and what is the APC?
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES is a subscription journal. 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: .