The Science of The Total Environment
Last updated ISSN 0048-9697
The Science of The Total Environment is published by Elsevier BV in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,250.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Science of The Total Environment concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Heavy metals in environment
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0048-9697, 1879-1026 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,250 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 83,696 |
| Publishing since | 1902 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-the-total-envir |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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