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, Comment, Correspondence, Research Highlight, Editorial.
