Peer-review policy
Environmental Health operates an open peer-review system, where the reviewers' names are included on the peer review reports for authors. In addition, if the article is published, the named reviewer reports are published online alongside the article under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. Previous versions of the manuscript and all author responses to the reviewers are available by contacting info@biomedcentral.com.
The benefit of open peer review is that it increases transparency. The peer reviewers and Editors are fully accountable for the decisions made, bias is reduced as reviewer reports are named, published reports can serve an educational purpose in helping facilitate training and research into peer review, and reviewers can get credit for their work.
Publication of research articles by Environmental Health is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field.
2017 Journal Metrics
-
Speed
79.5 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
51.2 days to first decision for all manuscripts
155.5 days from submission to acceptance
14.6 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
4.376 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.817 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.398 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.662 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
976,015 downloads
1790 Altmetric mentions