We the Editors are delighted to announce an important change for our journal: a new name. From January 2019, the journal will be entitled Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability.
When Taylor & Francis took over the publication of Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability in 2015, we were honoured to be appointed to the role of Editors of this prestigious peer-reviewed journal, which covers original research in environmental science and pollution. At that time, we worked closely with the Publisher and the Editorial Board to redefine the Aims & Scope of the journal, with a new focus on improving environmental safety and sustainability through advancing knowledge of the fate and impacts of pollutants in the environment. Since then, the journal has served the international research community as an open forum for providing insights into the environmental occurrence, distribution, transport, transformation, transfer, fate and effects of pollutants, as well as their bioavailability to living organisms. Therefore, as part of this new focus for the journal, we proposed to change the journal’s name to Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability in January 2018. Whilst ‘Chemical Speciation’ remains one of the key themes of the journal, changing the title to ‘Environmental Pollutants’ better aligns the journal’s name with its interdisciplinary scope. Our new name has found broad support among authors, readers, members of the Editorial Board, and the Publisher and was reached after an interactive process.
Under this new title, we hope that Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability will better serve the environmental research community. It will continue to publish rigorously peer-reviewed original research papers, short communications, review articles, perspectives/commentaries/policy updates, book reviews, and letters on important issues in environmental science and engineering. The journal will retain its high quality and impact by sharing and promoting new environmental research to our community. Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability will continue to be indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), GoOA, and other well-known databases of scientific research.