About this journal
Aims and scope
Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is an innovative, interdisciplinary and international research journal addressing the human and policy dimensions of hazards.
The journal addresses the full range of hazardous events from extreme geological, hydrological, atmospheric and biological events, such as earthquakes, floods, storms and epidemics, to technological failures and malfunctions, such as industrial explosions, fires and toxic material releases. Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is the source of the new ideas in hazards and risk research.
With a genuinely international perspective, this journal highlights issues of human exposure, vulnerability, awareness, response and risk. The role of hazards in affecting development, and issues of efficiency, social justice and sustainability are also explored in the journal.
Well-known conventional hazards receive extensive coverage but submissions about new forms of hazard, emerging risk management institutions and restructuring of ideas about hazards – including their role in human affairs – are particularly welcome.
Reinvigorating the debate about how we define, understand and manage hazards, the Journal is interdisciplinary in scope and open to contributions by specialists from a wide range of fields who are interested in the effects of hazards events on people, property and societies.
Peer Review Statement
Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge.
All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 67K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- 2.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 9.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.323 (2023) SNIP
- 0.816 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 16 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 72 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 13 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 16% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Flood Hazard Research Centre, UK
Associate Editor
Professor John Handmer, Centre for Risk and Community Safety, RMIT University, Australia
Editorial Board
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Professor Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Associate Professor Paulina Aldunce, University of Chile, Chile
Professor Janki Andharia, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Stephen Bender, Organization of American States (retired), USA
Dr Ann Bostrom, University of Washington, USA
Professor Stephanie E. Chang, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr Brian R. Cook, University of Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor Olena Dronova, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Professor Virginia García-Acosta, CIESAS (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology), México
Dr JC Gaillard, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank and Météo-France, France
Assistant Professor Dries Hegger, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Professor Jeroen van der Heijden, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Professor Emeritus Kenneth Hewitt, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr Ailsa Holloway, the Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction (RADAR)
Professor Yi Lu, Sichuan University, China
Associate Professor Shuaib Lwasa, Makerere University, Kampala
Dr Victor Marchezini, National Early Warning and Monitoring Centre of Natural Disaster, Brazil
Dr Elizabeth Mansilla, Independent Consultant
Professor Peter J. May, University of Washington, USA
Professor John McAneney, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Tara McGee, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr Blythe Mclennan, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Marilu Melo, University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor Burrell Montz, East Carolina University, USA
Mr Rade Thomas Musulin, CEO of FB Alliance Insurance, Illinois, USA
Professor Ilan Noy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Roger Pielke, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, USA
Dr Boris Porfiriev, Institute for Economic Forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dr Sally Priest, Middlesex University, UK
Professor Adam Rose, University of Southern California, USA
Dr Atta-ur Rahman, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Dr Alka Sapat, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Dr Zita Sebesvari, United Nations University, Germany
Associate Professor Greg Simons, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden
Professor Jacob Songsore, University of Ghana, Ghana
Dr Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr John P. Tiefenbacher, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA
Dr Juha I. Uitto, Independent Evaluation Office Global Environment Facility, USA
Professor Coleen Vogel, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Professor Peter Walker, Chatham University, USA
Dr Ben Wisner, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK
Dr Josh Whittaker, University of Wollongong, Australia
Abstracting and indexing
- CNKI China National Knowledge Infrastructure
- Current Geographical Publications
- Elsevier Scopus
- Elsevier Geobase
- Environmental Periodicals Bibliography
- CAB Abstracts
- GeoRef
- Social Science Citation Index
-
VINITI Abstracts Journal
Open access
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
5 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Environmental Hazards (2007 - current)
Formerly known as
- Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards (1999 - 2006)
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