Aquatic Emerging Contaminants and Their Ecotoxicological Consequences, 2nd Edition

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Dear Colleagues,

We propose a Topic concerning the assessment of emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems, as well as their ecotoxicological effects on aquatic species. This Topic includes scientific peer reviewed articles from MDPI journals such as Toxics, Waters, Journal of Xenobiotics, and Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. In this context, emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, nanoparticles, and (micro)plastics are not included in regular monitoring processes and represent an increasing global threat to the aquatic environment. For this reason, based on the pivotal approach in ecotoxicology named Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA), which includes the monitoring and effects of pollutants, the proposed Topic has the following aims: (i) monitoring emerging contaminants in both marine and freshwater environments, with particular attention given to (micro)plastics, and (ii) the evaluation of adverse effects on aquatic species at different levels of biological organization (from molecular to population one) using the following approaches:

• Classical ecotoxicological tests; 
• Wide batteries of biomarkers; 
• “Omics” techniques.

Research papers, reviews, and short communications are welcome. For original articles, only studies concerning the evaluation of environmental concentrations or, in general, that have a high ecological impact will be considered. This Topic will collect articles that fill the knowledge gap on the ecotoxicology of emerging contaminants.

Dr. Valerio Matozzo
Prof. Dr. François Gagné
Dr. Stefano Magni
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering jmse	2.7	4.4	2013	16.4 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Journal of Xenobiotics jox	6.8	5.3	2011	28 Days	CHF 1600	Submit
Pollutants pollutants	-	-	2021	25.3 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Toxics toxics	3.9	4.5	2013	18.3 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Water water	3.0	5.8	2009	17.5 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Environments environments	3.5	5.7	2014	22.8 Days	CHF 1800	Submit

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