Chemosphere

Impact, Factor and Metrics, Impact Score, Ranking, h-index, SJR, Rating, Publisher, ISSN, and More

Aim and Scope

Chemosphere is an international journal designed for the publication of original communications as well as review articles on chemicals in the environment. Chemosphere, as a multidisciplinary journal, offers maximum dissemination of investigations related to all aspects of the identification, quantification, behavior, fate, toxicology, treatment, and remediation of chemicals in the bio-, hydro-, litho- and atmosphere.

Chemosphere will publish:

• Original communications (research papers) describing important new discoveries or further developments in important fields of investigation
• Reviews, mainly of new developing areas
• Letters to the editor
• Short communications
• Technical notes (only in Technology section)
• Special, themed issues on relevant topics

About Chemosphere

Chemosphere is a journal covering the technologies/fields/categories related to Chemistry (miscellaneous) (Q1); Environmental Chemistry (Q1); Environmental Engineering (Q1); Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (Q1); Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1); Pollution (Q1); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Q1). It is published by Elsevier Ltd. The overall rank of Chemosphere is 1586. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 1.896. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come. SJR acts as an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor (or an average number of citations received in last 2 years). This journal has an h-index of 329. The best quartile for this journal is Q1.

The ISSN of Chemosphere journal is 00456535, 18791298. An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique code of 8 digits. It is used for the recognition of journals, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines in all kind of forms, be it print-media or electronic. Chemosphere is cited by a total of 117769 articles during the last 3 years (Preceding 2024).

Chemosphere Impact IF 2024-2025

The Impact IF 2024 of Chemosphere is 9.76, which is computed in 2025 as per its definition. Chemosphere IF is increased by a factor of 0.18 and approximate percentage change is 1.88% when compared to preceding year 2023, which shows a rising trend. The impact IF, also denoted as Journal impact score (JIS), of an academic journal is a measure of the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is based on Scopus data.

Chemosphere Impact IF 2025 Prediction

Impact IF 2024 of Chemosphere is 9.76. If the same upward trend persists, Impact IF may rise in 2025 as well.

Chemosphere h-index

 

Chemosphere has an h-index of 329. It means 329 articles of this journal have more than 329 number of citations. The h-index is a way of measuring the productivity and citation impact of the publications. The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given journal/author has published h papers that have each been cited at least h number of times.

Chemosphere ISSN

The ISSN of Chemosphere is 00456535, 18791298. ISSN stands for International Standard Serial Number.

An ISSN is a unique code of 8 digits. It is used for the recognition of journals, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines in all kind of forms, be it print-media or electronic.

Chemosphere Rank and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

The overall rank of Chemosphere is 1586. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 1.896. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come.

SJR of Chemosphere by Year

Ranking of Chemosphere by Year

Chemosphere Publisher

Chemosphere is published by Elsevier Ltd. It's publishing house is located in United Kingdom. Coverage history of this journal is as following: 1972-2025. The organization or individual who handles the printing and distribution of printed or digital publications is known as Publisher.

Call For Papers

Visit the official website of the journal/conference to check the further details about the call for papers.

Review Speed

Abbreviation

The IS0 4 standard abbreviation of Chemosphere is Chemosphere. This abbreviation ('Chemosphere') is well recommended and approved for the purpose of indexing, abstraction, referencing and citing goals. It meets all the essential criteria of ISO 4 standard.

ISO 4 (International Organization for Standardization 4) is an international standard that defines a uniform and consistent system for abbreviating serial publication titles and journals.

How to publish in Chemosphere

If your research field is/are related to Chemistry (miscellaneous) (Q1); Environmental Chemistry (Q1); Environmental Engineering (Q1); Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (Q1); Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1); Pollution (Q1); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Q1), then please visit the official website of this journal.

Acceptance Rate

The acceptance rate/percentage of any academic journal/conference depends upon many parameters. Some of the critical parameters are listed below.

• The demand or interest of researchers/scientists in publishing in a specific Journal/Conference.
• Peer review complexity and timeline.
• The mix of unsolicited and invited submissions.
• The time it takes from manuscript submission to final publication.
• And Many More.

It is essential to understand that the acceptance rate/rejection rate of papers varies among journals. Some Journals considers all the manuscripts submissions as a basis of acceptance rate computation. On the other hand, few consider the only manuscripts sent for peer review or few even not bother about the accurate maintenance of total submissions. Hence, it can provide a rough estimation only.

The best way to find out the acceptance rate is to reach out to the associated editor or to check the official website of the Journal/Conference.

More Details

All papers should demonstrate a high level of novelty, originality and uniqueness. The following sections and subject fields are included:

Environmental Chemistry

This section will publish manuscripts dealing with fundamental processes in the environment that are related to the analysis, behavior, fate, and alteration of organic and inorganic contaminants focused on the dynamics of contaminants in environmental compartments such as water, soil, sediment, particulate matter, organisms, dust and indoor/outdoor air. Only studies that are of significance to an international audience, include sites of particular global interest, or lend themselves to interpretation at the global level should be submitted.

Topics of specific interest include, but not limited to, are:

• All aspects of emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, flame retardants, other industrial chemicals, persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, etc.
• All aspects of trace metals, organometals, metalloids (e.g., arsenic) and radionuclides
• Environmental fate studies including transport, biodegradation, bio-accumulation and/or deposition, atmospheric (photo)chemical processes, hydrolysis, adsorption/desorption
• Transformation and mineralisation of chemicals (e.g., by bio- and photo degradation, redox processes and hydrolysis)
• Novel environmental analytical methods including case studies
• Environmental modelling and quantitative structure-activity
• relationships to study fate and environmental dynamics
• Monitoring studies presenting new strategies, report of novel contaminants, findings or interpretations of interest for an international readership.
• Passive sampling
• Non-target and suspect screening (e.g. effect-directed analysis)
• Natural marine toxins

The following studies are not considered for publication: studies on (micro)organisms (unless chemicals are clearly involved), monitoring studies based on standard methodology, and/or only of regional importance, studies dealing only with nutrients in agricultural ecosystems, pesticide application studies, plant physiology studies, studies on improvement of crops and purely analytical methodology studies. As regards papers on air pollution, we focus on contaminants in air, particulate matter studies and also consider papers on NO_X, SO_X or ozone.

Toxicology and Risk Assessment

The section on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment covers all aspects of toxicology, i.e., the science of adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms including humans, and the scientific risk assessment.

Topics of specific interest include, but not limited to, are:

• Adverse effects of chemicals in environmental, aquatic and terrestrial, organisms
• Similar studies in experimental organisms (under laboratory conditions)
• Epidemiological studies on effects of chemicals in humans
• Biochemical studies related to mechanisms of adverse effects
• Toxicokinetics and metabolic studies on chemicals related to adverse effects
• Development and validation of testing methods based on living organisms or biological materials
• Nanopolymers, nanocomposites, and microplastics in the environment
• Adaptation
• Human biomonitoring
• Elucidation of mechanisms of toxic effects
• DNA and protein adducts
• In vitro assays and omics techniques
• Phytotoxicity

Not considered are, e.g., studies that report only concentrations of chemicals in the environment, living organisms, food or other materials etc. and studies on biochemical effects of chemicals non-relevant to toxicology.

Treatment and Remediation

This section deals with papers about technologies that manage and/or reduce environmental contaminants, including reuse and recycling processes. The technology must be beyond a basic laboratory study or have obvious implications for current or potential treatment or remediation technologies and, for example, for any advanced oxidation process, the intermediates and/or the extent of mineralization of the targeted compound(s) and wastes must be quantified.

Topics of specific interest include, but not limited to, are:

• Advanced water and wastewater treatment processes and sludge management
• Produced water
• Drinking water
• Incineration
• Remediation including bio/phytoremediation employing new strategies
• Hydraulic fracturing
• Use of biochar amended soil to bind (e.g., herbicides)
• Nanotechnology
• Advanced oxidation processes
• Photolysis/photocatalysis and electrochemical and photo-assisted electrochemical methods
• Sonolysis/sonocatalysis
• Mechanochemical destruction (MCD)
• Natural treatment systems (riverbank filtration and aquifer recharge/recovery)
• Characterization of natural and effluent organic matter
• Technologies for recycle/reuse ( e.g., of microbial fuel cell techniques)
• Gasification/pyrolysis for biomass-to-energy and energy recovery from waste streams

Not considered are studies that focus on the synthesis of new materials to be used in waste water purification or remediation. Studies focusing on the removal of single contaminants are often less interesting for publication.

Credits and Sources

• Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), https://www.scimagojr.com/
• Journal Impact Factor, https://clarivate.com/
• Chemosphere Official Website
• Chemosphere Wikipedia