Clean Air Journal

Aims & Scope

Clean Air Journal is the official publication of the National Association for Clean Air, a not-for-profit organisation.

Clean Air Journal is a peer-reviewed journal for those interested in air quality, air quality management, and the impacts of air pollution relevant to Africa.

The focus of the journal includes, but is not limited to: Impacts of human activities and natural processes on ambient air quality Air quality and climate change linkages Air pollution mitigation technologies and applications Matters of public policy regarding air quality management Measurement and analysis of ambient and indoor air pollution Atmospheric modelling application and development Atmospheric emissions Other topics on atmospheric physics or chemistry with particular relevance to Africa The scope of the journal is broad, but the core theme of the journal is air quality in Africa.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Environmental Science, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Ambient air pollution: a global assessment of exposure and burden of disease

  Citation: 596

  Authors: World

• Air pollution in Kigali, Rwanda: spatial and temporal variability, source contributions, and the impact of car-free Sundays

  Citation: 33

  Authors:

• A Nairobi experiment in using low cost air quality monitors

  Citation: 32

  Authors: P, V, JK, BE, WO, J, R, C

• Source profiling, source apportionment and cluster transport analysis to identify the sources of PM and the origin of air masses to an industrialised rural area in Limpopo

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Cheledi, George

• Risk perceptions of dust and its impacts among communities living in a mining area of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

  Citation: 20

  Authors: C.Y., M., M.A., N.

• Assessment of heavy metals and radionuclides in dust fallout in the West Rand mining area of South Africa

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Violet P., Manny, Munyaradzi

• 'ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN THE EASTERN TRANSVAAL HIGHVELD

  Citation: 15

  Authors: P.D., F.J., C.W.

• Air Pollution in Africa in the time of COVID-19: the air we breathe indoors and outdoors

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Aderiana Mutheu

• Mercury emissions from South Africa’s coal-fired power stations

  Citation: 14

  Authors: B.L., K.E.

• Human health risk assessment of airborne metals to a potentially exposed community: a screening exercise

  Citation: 14

  Authors: MA, CY, M, N