Health Consequences of Prenatal Exposure to Adverse Environmental Factors in Infants and Children

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “Health Consequences of Prenatal Exposure to Adverse Environmental Factors in Infants and Children”. The aim is to publish high-quality scientific contributions (original research articles or comprehensive/systemiatic review papers) providing novel insights into the impact of the exposure during pregnancy to substances of abuse (e.g., alcohol) and environmental toxins on the physical and mental wellbeing of the fetus, the infant, and the child. Furthermore, analysis of these substances and compounds in maternal or fetal biological matrices for diagnositic purposes will be welcome.

We encourage the scientific community to make significant and innovative contributions to enhance our knowledge of the harmful effects of adverse environmental factors during development on children’s health. You are welcome to send a tentative title and a short abstract to our Editorial Office (ijerph@mdpi.com) for evaluation before submission. Selected full papers will be subject to a thorough and rigorous peer-review.

We look forward to receiving your excellent work.

Dr. Oscar Garcia-Algar
Dr. Vicente Andreu-Fernández
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.