Environmental Forensics

Aims & Scope

Environmental Forensics provides a forum for scientific investigations that address environment contamination, its sources, and the historical reconstruction of its release into the environment.

The context for investigations that form the published papers in the journal are often subjects to regulatory or legal proceedings, public scrutiny, and debate.

In all contexts, rigorous scientific underpinnings guide the subject investigations.

Specifically, the journal is an international, quarterly, peer-reviewed publication offering scientific studies that explore or are relevant to the source, age, fate, transport, as well as human health and ecological effects of environmental contamination.

Journal subject matter encompasses all aspects of contamination mentioned above within the environmental media of air, water, soil, sediments and biota.

Data evaluation and analysis approaches are highlighted as well including multivariate statistical methods.

Journal focus is on scientific and technical information, data, and critical analysis in the following areas: -Contaminant Fingerprinting for source identification and/or age-dating, including (but not limited to) chemical, isotopic, chiral, mineralogical/microscopy techniques, DNA and tree-ring fingerprinting -Specific Evaluative Techniques for source identification and/or age-dating including (but not limited to) historical document and aerial photography review, signature chemicals, atmospheric tracers and markets forensics, background concentration evaluations. -Statistical Evaluation, Contaminant Modeling and Data Visualization -Vapor Intrusion including delineating the source and background values of indoor air contamination -Integrated Case Studies, employing environmental fate techniques -Legal Considerations, including strategic considerations for environmental fate in litigation and arbitration, and regulatory statutes and actions

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.407

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	44

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13640

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	4294

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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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.

• Combustion-Derived Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Environment—A Review

  Citation: 544

  Authors: Ana Lúcia C., John W., Christopher M.

• Detecting Trends Using Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient

  Citation: 355

  Authors: T

• Forensic Fingerprinting of Biomarkers for Oil Spill Characterization and Source Identification

  Citation: 256

  Authors: Zhendi, Scott A., Merv

• Perchlorate: Problems, Detection, and Solutions

  Citation: 250

  Authors: William

• A History of the Production and Use of Carbon Tetrachloride, Tetrachloroethylene, Trichloroethylene and 1,1,1-Trichloroethane in the United States: Part 1--Historical Background; Carbon Tetrachloride and Tetrachloroethylene

  Citation: 212

  Authors: Richard E.

• State of the Art Report on Mathematical Methods for Groundwater Pollution Source Identification

  Citation: 197

  Authors: Juliana, Amvrossios

• The Effect of Soil Texture on Richness and Diversity of Bacterial Communities

  Citation: 158

  Authors: Jessica Furrer, Amvrossios C., Michael R.

• A History of the Production and Use of Carbon Tetrachloride, Tetrachloroethylene, Trichloroethylene and 1,1,1-Trichloroethane in the United States: Part 2--Trichloroethylene and 1,1,1-Trichloroethane

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Richard E.

• The chlor-alkali process: A review of history and pollution

  Citation: 125

  Authors: Jedidiah, Aliyar

• Improved and Standardized Methodology for Oil Spill Fingerprinting

  Citation: 123

  Authors: Per, Liv-Guri, Asger, Scott

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