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Air, Soil and Water Research accepted for indexing by CAS

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Journal overview

 
Aims and scope:

Air, Soil & Water Research is an open access, peer reviewed international journal covering all areas of research into soil, air and water. The journal looks at each aspect individually, as well as how they interact, with each other and different components of the environment.

This includes properties (including physical, chemical, biochemical and biological), analysis, microbiology, chemicals and pollution, consequences for plants and crops, soil hydrology, changes and consequences of change, social issues, and more.

The journal has a multi-disciplinary approach and includes research, results, theory, models, analysis, applications and reviews. Work in lab or field is applicable. Of particular interest are manuscripts relating to environmental concerns.

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by the following services:

• CAS
• DOAJ
• CABI Abstracts
• OAIster
  

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf.

Information for authors

 
Call for papers:

Read the Editor in Chief's latest call for papers here.

Submission types accepted:

Submissions of the following types of manuscripts are accepted:

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

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Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

 

Dr Carlos Alberto Martinez-Huitle currently serves as a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Milan, Italy. His research is centered on Electrocatalysis and Quality Control, in an environmental context. He works in the “green chemistry” field, developing new remediation methods for environmental protection, such as chemical/electrochemical processes for wastewater treatment. He has published over 25 articles on electrochemistry and related topics, and contributed to a book; “Wastewater Treatment Technologies and Environment” (2004). He has participated in dozens of conference proceedings and refereed for several journals on environmental management.

Dr Martinez-Huitle graduated in Chemistry at the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico. He completed work experience at Ciba - Specialty Chemicals, where he worked in the Quality Control and Engineering Additives areas. He also studied alternatives for wastewater treatment at the Universidad de las Américas. He then moved to the University of Ferrara, Italy where he earned a PhD in Chemical Sciences. He received a prize for Best Italian PhD Thesis in Chemical Sciences with applications in Environmental Chemistry. During the same period, he also worked as visiting scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Laussanne, Switzerland.

Editorial Board

 

Nasr Bensalah
Associate Professor, Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, University of Gabes, Gabes, Tunisia

Carlos Carlesi Jara, PhD
Associate Professor, Escuela de ingeniería química (Chemical Engineering department), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Weixin Ding, PhD
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Barbora Dousova
Professor Assistant, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague (ICT Prague), dept. of Solid State Chemistry, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Olivera M. Djordjevic, PhD
Professor, Department for Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, and Medical Faculty, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

Janvier Gasana
Associate Professor and Chair of Florida Childrens’ Environmental Health Alliance, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Stempel School of Public Health, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

Xiao Guoju PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Institute, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, P R China

Zhiyong Huang, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering Col1ege, Jimei University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, P.R. China

Gajanan Kisan Khadse, PhD
Geoenvironment Management Division, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India 

Ravindra Khaiwal, PhD
Centre for Atmospheric and Instrumentation Research (CAIR), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK

Mamdouh Ibraheim Meleigy Khoder, PhD
Assistant Professor, Air Pollution Research Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Tzu-Hsing Ko, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Leisure and Recreation Management, Kao Fong College, Pintung, Taiwan

Vladimir Koci
Associeted Professor, Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

Hong Li, PhD
Assistant Professor and Edible Horticulture Research Chair, Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Xiaoxia Lu
Associate Professor, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

Jianmin Ma
Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Science & Technology Branch, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada

Y. Avasn Maruthi
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Institute of Science, Gitnam University, Visakhapathnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Ayman Mohamed Ibraheim Mohamed
Associate Professor, Coordinator of Energy and Natural Gas Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Suez Canal University, Port-Said, Egypt

Suman Mor
Lecturer, Centre for Environment and Vocational Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Pradeep K. Naik
Advisor, Water Resources Directorate, Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture, Budaiya, Kingdom of Bahrain

Yerol Narayana
Department of Physics, Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

Takeshi Ohura
Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan

Jose Luis Palau Aloy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pollutant Dynamics, Fundacion CEAM (Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies), Paterna, Valencia, Spain

Jitendra Pandey
Reader (Associate Professor) Environmental Science Division, Center of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (221005), Uttar Pradesh, India

Marco Antonio Quiroz Alfaro
Professor, Chemical and Biological Sciences, Engineering and Sciences, Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Cholula, Puebla, México

Pradeep Ramratan Salve
Scientist Gr.IV(2), Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment Division (EIRA), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur- 440 020, Maharashtra, India

Inge Elisabeth Käthe Schmitz-Feuerhake
Professor, retired from University of Bremen, Germany, Department of Physics, Peter-Michels-Straße 54, Köln, Germany

Wagner Lopes Soares
Research Economist, Department of Agriculture, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Porntip Choksuchart Sridang
Assistance Professor, Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Amy Stuart, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA

Ugur Sunlu, PhD
Professor,  Department of Hydrobiology, Division of Marine Biology, Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, Izmir-Bornova, Turkey 

Gokmen Tayfur
Professor, Civil Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey

Daniel Tsang, PhD, CNev
Lecturer, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Lourdes Vázquez Gómez, PhD
Research Assistant, Institute of Energetics and Interphases, National Research Council (CNR-IENI), Padova, Italy

Wim de Vries, PhD
Dr. Ir., Wageningen Univerity and Research centre, Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ian James van Wesenbeeck
Regulatory Science and Government Affairs, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Xiao-Zhang Yu, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, College of Resources and Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Carmem Lúcia Paiva e Silva Zanta, PhD
Instituto de Química e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas Campus A. C. Simões, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Ha-Lin Zhao
Professor, Ecology and Agriculture Department, Cold and Arid Environment and Engineering Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, P R China

Qixing Zhou, PhD
Professor, Dean of the College of Environment Science and Engineering, Nankai University; and Director of the Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Processes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, P R China

Han-Hua Zhu
Soil and Environmental Ecology Department, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha city, Hunan province, P R China

 

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