About Pollutants
Aim and Scope
Pollutants (ISSN 2673-4672) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that fosters interdisciplinary research on environmental contaminants, pollution mitigation strategies, and their implications for ecosystem resilience and public health. The journal publishes research articles, reviews, systematic reviews, communications, and other article types (i.e., perspectives) related to chemical, biological, and physical pollutants affecting air, water, soil, sediments, and biota. There are no restrictions on the maximum length of manuscripts, provided that the study is presented concisely and scientifically. To ensure the transparency and reproducibility of published research, authors must describe their methodology in sufficient detail to allow the reported results to be reproduced and independently verified.
The journal welcomes multidisciplinary research on the sources, occurrence, environmental fate, transport, transformation, exposure pathways, bioavailability, toxicity, ecological effects, monitoring, prevention, mitigation, removal, and remediation of pollutants. Particular attention is given to emerging contaminants, including micro(nano)plastics, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and other contaminants of environmental concern, as well as pollution-related biological and physical stressors. Studies addressing biodiversity conservation, ecosystem functioning and resilience, climate-change–pollution interactions, environmental microbiology, One Health, and sustainable environmental management are considered when they are directly related to environmental pollution and its impacts.
To better reflect the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary pollution research, the journal is organized into six thematic sections covering environmental chemistry, toxicology and risk assessment, environmental monitoring and modeling, pollution impacts on ecosystems and health, environmental microbiology and One Health, and pollution prevention, remediation, and sustainable environmental management.
- Environmental Chemistry and Emerging Contaminants
- Environmental chemistry, analytical sciences, and pollutant characterization;
- Environmental fate, transport, transformation, bioavailability, and bioaccumulation of pollutants and contaminants;
- Emerging contaminants, including micro(nano)plastics, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials, and other contaminants of environmental concern.
- Environmental Toxicology, Ecotoxicology, and Risk Assessment
- Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology across molecular, organism, population, community, and ecosystem levels;
- Ecological and human health risk assessment of environmental pollutants, including mixture toxicity and pollution-related multiple-stressor effects.
- Environmental Monitoring, Modeling, and Data Science
- Environmental monitoring, surveillance, and early-warning systems for pollutants;
- Computational toxicology, predictive modeling, artificial intelligence, and environmental data analytics;
- Data-driven assessment of pollutant sources, occurrence, trends, exposure, and impacts.
- Pollution, Ecosystem Health, and Global Change
- Pollution impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services;
- Climate-change–pollution interactions, pollution-related multiple stressors, and ecosystem resilience;
- Ecological responses and recovery of polluted ecosystems.
- Environmental Microbiology, One-Health, and Environmental Health
- Environmental microbiology of polluted environments, including antimicrobial resistance associated with environmental contamination;
- One-Health and Planetary Health approaches to pollution and environmental contaminants;
- Pollution-mediated interactions among environmental, animal, plant, and human health.
- Pollution Prevention and Sustainable Remediation
- Pollution prevention, source control, and sustainable pollution management;
- Pollution abatement technologies and emission reduction systems;
- Pollutant removal, contaminant treatment, and resource recovery technologies;
- Green remediation technologies and pollution mitigation strategies;
- Restoration of contaminated ecosystems and nature-based solutions for pollution remediation;
- Sustainable agriculture, contaminated land management, and environmental policies for pollution prevention and control.
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add
high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate
authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in
such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.
Book Reviews
Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.
MDPI
Grosspeteranlage 5
CH-4052 Basel
Switzerland
Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Pollutants will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:
Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints. Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free in the News & Announcements section of the journal. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is pollutants@mdpi.com. For further MDPI contacts, see here.Reprints
Announcement and Advertisement
Editorial Office
Contact us
