The Environmental Claims Journal is a quarterly journal that focuses on the many types of claims and liabilities that result from environmental exposures. The ECJ considers environmental claims under older business insurance policies, coverage and claims under more recent environmental insurance policies, as well as toxic tort claims. Exposures and claims from all environmental media are considered: air, drinking water, groundwater, soil, chemicals in commerce and naturally occurring chemicals. The journal also considers the laws, regulations, and case law that form the basis for claims. The journal would be of interest to environmental and insurance attorneys, insurance professionals, claims professionals, and environmental consultants.
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Journal metrics
Usage
11K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.657 (2023) SNIP
0.300 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
35 days avg. from submission to first
decision
35 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
54% acceptance rate
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quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Howard M. Tollin, Esquire - Sterling Environmental Services, Woodbury, NY
FOUNDING EDITOR
Lynne M. Miller -Quanta Technical Services
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Brian R. Ade, Esquire - Rivkin Radler LLP, Hackensack, NJ Uzair Aslam Bhatti - Hainan University, Haikou, China Tal Avrhami, Esquire - Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman, CleanEarth, NY Randall Bell - Landmark Research Group, LLC, Laguna Beach, CA Catherine E. Bostock, Esquire - Cole Schotz P.C., Hackensack, NJ Daniele Cervino, Esquire - Beattie Padovano, LLC, Montvale, NJ Robert D. Chesler, Esquire - Anderson Kill PC, Newark, NJ Michael Davis, Esquire - Partner, Venable LLP, Washington, DC Tod Delaney, President - First Environment, Boonton, NJ Gordon C. Duus, Esquire, Shareholder and Chairman - Mandelbaum Salsburg, P.C., West Orange, NJ Charles P. Edwards, Esquire - Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, Indianapolis, IN Mahmoud Emam - Sultan Qaboos University, al-Seeb,Oman Onyekachi Eni - Alex-Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria Anchal Garg, PhD - GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, India Earl L. Hagstrom, Esquire - Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum, San Francisco, CA Mark Heinzelmann, Esquire - Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Livingston, NJ Shruti Kanga - Central University of Punjab, Bhatinda, India Gregory Kelder, Division Senior Vice President Claims - Great American Insurance Group, Exton, PA Nitasha Khatri, Senior Scientific Officer-Gujarat Environment Management Institute (GEMI), Gandhinagar, India Sallie Kraus, Esquire -SBK Consulting, Stamford, CT Shakeel Mahmood - Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan Brad Mauer - American Risk Management Resources, LLC, WI Robert A. Michaels, PhD, CEP - RAM TRAC Corporation, Schenectady, NY Rajendra Prasad Mohanty - SOA, Odisha, India Son Nguyen, Dean - University of Law, Vietnam National University, Vietnam Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari - Isfahan University of Technology, Iran Drew Peake - Peake Engineering, Inc., Marietta, GA Andrew J. Perel, Esquire - Troutman Pepper, New York, NY Michele Schroeder, Esquire - Environmental Risk Inc., Rockville Centre, NY J. Barton Seitz, Esquire - Baker Botts LLP, Washington, DC Maulin P Shah - Enviro Technology Limited, Gujarat, India T. McRoy Shelley, III, Esquire - Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC, Columbia, SC David M. Siesko, Esquire - Siesko Partners LLC, New York, NY Andrew Smyth - TRC, Boston, MA Daniel Sullivan, PG -Roux Associates, Inc., Manson, NC Sunderasan Srinvasan, Esquire -Verdurous Solutions Private Limited, Mysore, India Linh H. Tran - Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Steven D. Urgo, Esquire - Lewis Brisbois LLP, Wayne, PA Jay Vandeven, Principal - Environ Corporation, Arlington, VA Khursheed Ahmad Wani, Assistant Professor -Govt Degree College, Thindim Kreeri, India Sobia Wassan - Jiangsu Urban and Rural Construction Vocational College, Changzhou, China Norman Wei - Environmental Management and Training, LLC, Cape Corral, FL
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in:
• CABI
° Agricultural Economics Database
° Agricultural Engineering Abstracts (Online)
° Animal Production Database
° Biofuels Abstracts
° CAB Abstracts
° Environmental Impact
° Forest Science Database
° Forestry Abstracts (Online)
° Global Health
° Horticultural Science Database
° InfoTree
° Irrigation and Drainage Abstract (Online)
° Plant Protection Database
° Soil Science Database
° Soils and Fertilizers (Online)
° Sugar Industry Abstracts (Online)
° TropAg & Rural
° Tropical Diseases Bulletin (Online)
° Weed Abstracts (Online)
° World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (Online)
• EBSCOhost
° Current Abstracts
° Environment Complete
° Environment Index
° GeoRef
° Health Business Elite
° Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (H.W. Wilson)
° Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
° Legal Collection
° Legal Source
° Public Affairs Index
° TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
• Elsevier BV
° GEOBASE
° Scopus
• Gale
° Book Review Index Plus
• Ovid
° GeoRef
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• ProQuest
° Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (Online), selective
° Aerospace Database, selective
° Aluminium Industry Abstracts (Online), selective
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