Emerging Contaminants
A section of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304).
Section Information
The Emerging Contaminants Section of the journal is focused on research that addresses the problems and challenges caused by chemicals that are not currently (or have been only recently) regulated in the environment. This Section will welcome original papers, reviews, perspectives, and comments that cover a broad range of research on emerging contaminants, such as the identification of emerging contaminants, or that initiate advanced assessments of their presence in the environment, toxic effects and ecological risks, environmental behavior and degradation, human exposure, as well as disposal technology to reduce and control their environmental presence.
Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- persistent organic pollutants
- environmental endocrine disruptors
- pharmaceutical and personal care products
- health effects
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Emerging Chemical Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment (Deadline: 10 June 2025)
- Human Exposure to per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs): Toxicity, Health Effects, and Mitigation (Deadline: 15 June 2025)
- Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments II (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Emerging Environmental Pollutants and Their Impact on Human Health (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Impact of Pollutants on Aquatic Ecosystems and Food Safety (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Concentration of VOCs in the Atmosphere and Its Environmental Exposure (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- New Risk Assessment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Exposure to Livestock (Deadline: 10 July 2025)
- Neurotoxicity, Immunotoxicity, and Metabolic Dysfunction of Plastic Pollution in Freshwater and Marine Species (Deadline: 10 July 2025)
- Toxicity of Phthalate Esters (PAEs) (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
- Micropollutants/Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Environmental Fates, and Effects on Aquatic Organisms (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
- Exposure and Toxicity of Emerging Organic Pollutants in Environment and Human (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Eco-Environmental Risks of Emerging Pollutants and Their Relationships with Climate Change (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Acute Toxicity, Environmental Impact Assessment and Human Safety of Surfactants (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Remediation Strategies of Emerging Chemical Contaminants in Soils (Deadline: 29 August 2025)
- Environmental Behaviors and Risk Assessment Methods of Typical Agricultural Environmental Pollutants (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Hazard Assessment of per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Sub-Stances (PFAS) (Deadline: 20 September 2025)
- Antibiotics and Resistance Genes in Environment (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- PFAS Toxicology and Metabolism—2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Microplastics in Atmospheric, Aquatic, and Soil Ecosystems: Occurrence, Impacts, and Innovations in Detection and Mitigation (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Oxidative Degradation and Toxicity of Environmental Pollutants (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Pharmaceutical Pollutants: Environmental Fate, Risk Assessment and Sustainable Solutions (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Advances in Monitoring, Transformation and Ecological Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Aquatic Environments (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Assessing Contaminants in Food: Dietary Exposure, Human Health Risks, and Emerging Challenges (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Biomonitoring of Toxic Elements and Emerging Pollutants (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Toxicity Assessment and Safety Management of Nanomaterials (Deadline: 20 November 2025)
- Emerging Pollutants in the Aquatic Ecosystems: Occurrence, Fate and Effects on the Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
- Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (Deadline: 20 December 2025)
