Journal profile · Engineering, Environmental
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
ISSN 1436-3240 · eISSN 1436-3259 · Springer Berlin Heidelberg · GERMANY · Bimonthly · Founded 1987
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment: CAS Zone 3 · Environmental Science & Ecology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.85; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,090; median 157 days to acceptance (67 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 241 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment is published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies and Climate variability and models, together about 35.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) publishes research papers, reviews and technical notes on stochastic (i.e., probabilistic and statistical) approaches to environmental sciences and engineering, including the description, modelling and prediction of the spatiotemporal evolution of natural and engineered systems under conditions of uncertainty, risk assessment, interactions of terrestrial and atmospheric environments with people and the ecosystem, and environmental health. Its core aim is to bring together research in various fields of environmental, planetary and health sciences and engineering, providing an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas, for communicating on issues that cut across disciplinary barriers, and for the dissemination of novel stochastic techniques used in various fields. Contributions may cover measurement, instrumentation and probabilistic / statistical modelling approaches in various fields of science and engineering, including (but not limited to): Surface and subsurface hydrology, including stochastic hydrology and hydraulics, scale invariant phenomena, fractals and multifractals. Climate science, meteorology and hydrometeorology, including hydrologic/hydroclimatic variability, hydrologic scaling, and climate change impact assessment. Natural hazards, environmental risk modelling and assessment, including statistical estimation and modelling of hydrologic and hydroclimatic extremes (i.e., precipitation, droughts and floods), spatiotemporal modelling of the availability of surface-water and groundwater resources, hydroclimatic and environmental risk quantification, catastrophe risk and management of insurance and re-insurance. Public health and environmental epidemiology, including statistical epidemiology, spatiotemporal spread of infectious diseases, as well as human exposure assessment. Stochastic approaches (probabilistic and statistical) to modelling the Water, Food, Energy and Health nexus, including socio-economic concepts, complex inter-linkages and compound risk resulting from hydroclimatic conditions, water quality, food security and energy production, as well as population health. Stochastic approaches to modelling and assessment of the efficiency and sustainability of green infrastructure concepts, including smart solutions and modelling approaches for water usage, reduction of water losses, agricultural irrigation, environmental and ecological health monitoring, and associated mod
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Environmental
Editor-in-chief Andreas LangousisPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 7 in mainland China (about 11%); most named United States 8, Italy 8, Mainland China 7, Greece 7, Taiwan, China 5 (63 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Hydrology and Drought AnalysisEnvironmental Science13.7%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesEnvironmental Science11.7%
- Climate variability and modelsEnvironmental Science10.1%
- Flood Risk Assessment and ManagementEnvironmental Science7.4%
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AIEnvironmental Science6.7%
- Soil Geostatistics and MappingEnvironmental Science5.6%
- Groundwater flow and contamination studiesEnvironmental Science5.2%
- Water resources management and optimizationEngineering4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Water Resources | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Civil | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Environmental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Environmental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Civil | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Water Resources | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Civil | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Environmental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Water Resources | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
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
- 3.85LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.84LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.05LetPub ·
- h-index
- 57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 109OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,217OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.31OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 18.85%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 238LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 557,900Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,824 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 240 | 79 | 119 |
| 2025 | 241 | 61 | 964 |
| 2024 | 247 | 51 | 2,055 |
| 2023 | 273 | 76 | 3,399 |
| 2022 | 219 | 74 | 4,279 |
| 2021 | 202 | 58 | 4,398 |
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
157 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 98 days – 230 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 23 days (115 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 178 days
- Sample
- 67 articles with submission and acceptance dates (544 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)
- 18–36 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,090 / EUR 3,090 / GBP 2,690 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Plagiarism
- AI use Generative AI Images
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Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statement required for all original research Model summary
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
COPE member Model summary
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, the author(s) agree to publish the article under a Creative Commons license. Details of the OA licences offered to authors can be found on the individual journal website, in the journal's How to publish with us guide. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism screening software may be used Model summary
the journal may use software to screen for plagiarism
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
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Country or region
- GERMANY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1987
- ISSN
- 1436-3240
- Electronic ISSN
- 1436-3259
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
What CAS zone is Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Statistics & Probability / Water Resources / Engineering, Civil / Engineering, Environmental / Environmental Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Environmental Science & Ecology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.85; CiteScore 7.8, h-index 109.
How long does peer review take at Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment?
Based on the dates recorded on 67 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 157 days (interquartile range 98–230 days); authors report an average review time of 18–36 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Author–date; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment based?
Of the 63 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 7 (about 11%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (8), Italy (8) and Mainland China (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment open access, and what is the APC?
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,090.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .