International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Call for Special Issue Proposals for Section “Climate Change”
On behalf of Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, we are now accepting Special Issue proposals for the Section “Climate Change” of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN: 1660-4601). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor, Ms. Ann Cheng (ann.cheng@mdpi.com).
The journal IJERPH is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI. It covers Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Public Health, Environmental Health, Occupational Hygiene, Health Economic and Global Health Research, etc. The journal is indexed within Scopus, SCIE and SSCI (Web of Science), PubMed, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase, GEOBASE, CAPlus / SciFinder, and other databases. For more details, please see the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/about.
The Section “Climate Change” has the following topics for your consideration:
- Elaborating causal pathways related to global environmental changes with health;
- Quantifying associations between weather and health, taking into consideration other key drivers;
- Assessing the current burden of climate-sensitive diseases;
- Identifying thresholds and time of emergence of climate-sensitive health outcomes;
- Projecting climate-sensitive disease burdens under different climate and development pathways, including health system impacts, focusing on how changing weather patterns could affect the geographic range, seasonality, and/or burden of health outcomes;
- Examining challenges and opportunities for multi-sectoral adaptation partnerships that benefit human health;
- Identifying, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation policies and programs;
- Estimating the range of health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies and technologies.
The duties of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:
- Refining the Special Issue title and scope, and providing a short introduction (100–200 words) and 5–10 keywords to set up the Special Issue website;
- Inviting contributors with the assistance of the in-house editor to achieve a publication target (e.g., 10 papers);
- Supervising the peer review process of this Special Issue: conducting a pre-review check, making final decisions based on at least two review reports that we have collected, etc.
The benefits of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:
- As the Guest Editor, you will be offered an opportunity to publish one of your papers free of charge in open access form, and the chance to provide discounts to the papers that you invited for your Special Issue;
- A printed book of the Special Issue can be sent to you if more than 10 papers are published by the end of the Special Issue. See an example at https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1209;
- It is an ideal venue for networking and communication with scholars in the research community, as well as a chance to mark you as influential within your discipline. The relationships you develop will last beyond the publication of your Special Issue, establishing a network for future collaboration.
The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue’s website, arrange the promotional materials, assist with the invitations for paper contributions, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review (including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication).
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
IJERPH Editorial Office