Pollutants Dynamics is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the fundamental understanding of the dynamic behavior of pollutants across environmental and biological systems. The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for publishing high-quality research on the transport, transformation, bioavailability, bioaccumulation, toxicological responses, and ecological impacts of contaminants throughout their entire lifecycle.
Aims and Scope
The journal aims to bridge environmental sciences, toxicology, environmental health, ecology, chemistry, engineering, and data science by emphasizing mechanism-driven research and dynamic processes that connect pollutant sources with environmental exposure, biological fate, and ecological and human health risks.
Pollutants Dynamics particularly welcomes studies that integrate experimental investigations, mechanistic analyses, computational modeling, artificial intelligence, and predictive approaches to improve our understanding of pollutant behavior under complex environmental conditions and to support science-based environmental management and risk assessment.
Research topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Pollutant Sources, Transport and Transformation
- Pollutant emissions and environmental release
- Atmospheric, aquatic and terrestrial transport
- Chemical speciation and environmental transformation
- Degradation, persistence and environmental fate
2. Bioavailability and Exposure Science
- Exposure pathways and internal exposure
- Uptake kinetics and biodistribution
- Bioavailability and bioaccessibility
- Environmental exposure assessment
- Human and ecological exposure science
3. Bioaccumulation, Biodynamics and Trophic Transfer
- Biodynamic modeling
- Bioaccumulation and biomagnification
- Food-web transfer
- Organ-specific accumulation
- Pollutant trafficking in organisms
4. Toxicodynamics and Mechanistic Toxicology
- Molecular and cellular toxicology
- Oxidative stress and immunotoxicity
- Omics-based toxicology
- Mechanisms of toxicity
- Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs)
5. Emerging Contaminants
- Microplastics and nanoplastics
- PFAS and persistent pollutants
- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)
- Engineered nanomaterials
- Novel contaminants and transformation products
6. Environmental AI and Predictive Toxicology
- Artificial intelligence for environmental science
- Machine learning in toxicology
- High-throughput screening
- Predictive environmental risk assessment
- Digital twins and intelligent environmental monitoring
7. Environmental Health and Ecosystem Risk
- Ecotoxicology
- Ecosystem responses to pollution
- Biodiversity impacts
- Environmental health
- One Health and planetary health perspectives
Pollutants Dynamics publishes a range of content types, including, but not limited to, Research Article, Review, Meta-Analysis, Brief Communication, Perspective, Commentary, Correspondence, Research Highlight, Editorial.
Ownership
The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.
Publishing Model
Gold Open Access. All articles published by Pollutants Dynamics are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.
Copyright and License to Publish
Articles in Pollutants Dynamics are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting Pollutants Dynamics, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Editors and Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to Pollutants Dynamics should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process.
Publication Ethics Statement
Pollutants Dynamics fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Pollutants Dynamics take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.
Journal Information and Statistics
- Publication model: Gold Open Access
- Frequency: Quarterly published
- DOI: 10.20517/pd
- ISSN XXXX-XXXX (Coming soon)
- Digital archive: Portico
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