Environmental Health Perspectives

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Environmental Health Perspectives
DisciplineEnvironmental health
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJoel D. Kaufman, MD, MPH
Publication details
History1972-present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
Yes
LicensePublic domain
10.1 (2023)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Environ. Health Perspect.
Indexing
CODENEVHPAZ
ISSN0091-6765 (print)
1552-9924 (web)
LCCN76642723
OCLC no.01727134
Links

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published from April 1972 until June 2025 by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The primary purposes of EHP are to communicate recent scientific findings and trends in the environmental health sciences; to improve the environmental health knowledge base among researchers, administrators, and policy makers; and to inform the public about important topics in environmental health.[1] The journal has been indexed in Medline / Index Medicus since 1972.[2] According to the Journal Citations Reports, the impact factor of Environmental Health Perspectives was 10.1 in 2024.[3]

From 2001 to 2021 the journal published a Chinese edition, with selected articles translated into Chinese and editorials and commentary by scientists with Chinese as the first language.[4][5]

On April 23, 2025, the journal announced that it would not be accepting new manuscript submissions, “Due to recent changes in operational resources”.[6] The New York Times reported that editors had “a “lack of confidence” that contracts for critical expenses like copy-editing and editorial software would be renewed after their impending expiration dates”. [7] In a final editorial on June 26, 2025, the Chief editor, Joel D. Kaufman, announced that editorial staff had transitioned into other jobs and that papers sent out for peer review had to be returned to authors for submission to other journals.[8]

Environmental Health Perspectives was published as a Diamond Open Access journal since 2004, with no article processing costs for authors and free access for readers.[9] Environmental Health Perspectives was one of the few journals that fulfilled the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy without any costs for authors and readers. Upon cessation of NIEHS support, the editor announced that “it may not … allow the journal to waive all publication costs to all authors.”[8]

Richard Woychik, Ph.D., NIEHS Director, and Trevor K. Archer, Ph.D., NIEHS Deputy Director, announced on June 26, 2025, that the journal and its archive were released to an external publisher.[8]

The Internet Archive saved a final version of the journal website hosted by NIEHS on October 7, 2025. Subsequently, all journal contents and archives were removed from the NIEHS website. Journal contents from 1972 on remain available on Pubmed Central.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Journal About page
  2. ↑ "Environmental health perspectives. - NLM Catalog - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
  3. ↑ "Journal Impact Factor". Environmental Health Perspectives. Archived from the original on 2025-09-19. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
  4. ↑ Hu, Hui; Kaufman, Joel D. (2021-01-05). "A New Era for EHP's International Program". Environmental Health Perspectives. 129 (1): 11001. doi:10.1289/EHP8737. ISSN 1552-9924. PMC 7785294. PMID 33400597.
  5. ↑ "Archive | Environmental Health Perspectives (Chinese)". Environmental Health Perspectives (Chinese). Archived from the original on 2025-10-06. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
  6. ↑ "Important Update About Journal Submissions". Environmental Health Perspectives. April 23, 2025. Archived from the original on 2025-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions". The New York Times. 2025-04-30. Archived from the original on 2025-09-30. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
  8. 1 2 3 Kaufman, Joel D. (2025-06-26). "A Chapter Closes at Environmental Health Perspectives". Environmental Health Perspectives. 133 (6): 61001. doi:10.1289/EHP17962. ISSN 1552-9924. PMC 12199988. PMID 40569667.
  9. ↑ "Celebrating 50 Years of EHP". Environmental Health Perspectives. April 27, 2022. Archived from the original on 2025-04-09.
  10. ↑ ""environmental health perspectives"[Journal] - Search Results - PMC". PubMed Central (PMC). Retrieved 2025-12-06.