About Environmental Research: Water
Scope
Environmental Research: Water is an interdisciplinary journal addressing the critical challenges posed by water scarcity, global change, and environmental degradation.
The journal covers all aspects of the hydrosphere, and looks to explore the connection between physical, chemical, biological, and ecological processes that govern water sustainability, as well as the evolving relationship between humanity and water. By exploring the whole water cycle, Environmental Research: Water is looking to foster collaboration and bring communities together. The goal is to encourage interdisciplinary studies that address global change, nexus, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security, and solutions to provide sufficient water of suitable quality.
Topics include, but not limited to:
- Changes in the hydrological cycle and water resources distributions in time and space
- Hydrological extremes and water-related hazards
- Impact of global change on water availability, quality, and access
- Water scarcity and its societal consequences
- Water governance and policy frameworks for sustainable water management
- Water-food-energy-ecosystem nexus
- Water quality and its environmental and human health impacts
- Water-related ecosystems and biodiversity
- Water technologies and wastewater treatment
- Planetary boundaries for water
Why should you publish in Environmental Research: Water?
Broad multidisciplinary scope: A broad scope that brings together all communities working towards providing sufficient water of suitable quality to all.
Visibility: Maximise the reach of your research by publishing your paper fully open access, IOP Publishing is currently covering all open access charges meaning the journal is free for authors and readers.
Home for every publishable paper: Submit your manuscript to your journal of choice and our team will endeavour to find the most suitable home for your paper in our Environmental Research series.
Personal touch: Our publishing experts are always on hand to provide guidance and advice on where best to publish.
Editorial board: Our Environmental Research series journals are all led by a globally diverse community of engaged and active board members.
Leadership in peer review: IOP Publishing won the 2023 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publisher’s (ALPSP) Impact Award for the introduction of double-anonymous and transparent peer review across all our peer reviewed journals including the Environmental Research series.
Strengthening research integrity: Our research integrity team applies best practice in integrity and ethics.
Purpose-Led Publishing: Science is our only shareholder. We are committed to:
- Investing 100% of our funds back into science
- Publishing only content that genuinely adds to scientific knowledge
- Ensuring our terms are reasonable
- Putting research integrity ahead of profit
- Admitting our errors and set them right – 100% of APC income collected from retracted papers is donated to Research4Life
Article types
Environmental Research: Water welcomes submissions of the following article types:
- Papers: Articles of unlimited length that report quality original research with conclusions representing a significant advance in the field.
- Letters: Outstanding concise articles, reporting important, new and timely developments. As a guide, Letters should not generally be more than eight journal pages (or around 4500 words) in length.
- Topical Reviews: Written by leading researchers in their fields, these articles present the background to and overview of a particular field, and the current state of the art. Authors interested in contributing a review article to ERW should complete an ERW review article outline template, to be sent to the journal Publisher via email lauren.carter@ioppublishing.org. Following feedback and approval by the Editorial Board, authors will be invited to submit a full review article within six months. All timeframes are flexible depending on author capacity.
- Perspectives: Commentaries on the impact of previously published work, or authoritative discussions on the future direction of a field, that are of notable interest to the community.
- Comments and Replies: Comments on, or criticisms of, work previously published in the journal. The authors of the original article will be invited to submit a reply.
Peer review
The following summary describes the peer review process for Environmental Research: Water, using the ANSI/NISO Standard Terminology for Peer Review:
- Identity transparency: single-anonymous, double-anonymous (author choice)
- Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Our Publishing Support website provides more information on our reviewing process as well as checklists in both English and Chinese language to help authors prepare their manuscripts for submission.
If an article is not accepted for publication, we may offer the author the opportunity to transfer their submission to other suitable journals we publish.
Inclusivity and diversity
IOP Publishing recognises that there are inequalities within the scientific publishing and research ecosystems. We are committed to a progressive approach to inclusivity and diversity, and are working hard to eliminate discrimination to foster an equitable and welcoming publishing environment for all.
IOP Publishing follows Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication to ensure that journal articles use bias-free and culturally sensitive communication. We ask authors to please follow these guidelines in their manuscript submissions.
More information about our work on inclusivity is available on our Open Physics hub.
Ethics
Research data
Please note that this policy requires authors to include a data availability statement in their article.
For any questions about the policy please contact the journal.
Many research funders now require authors to make all data related to their research available in an online repository. Please refer to the policy for further information about research data, data repositories and data citation.
Open access
For more information on IOP Publishing’s open access policies please see our Open access page.
Members of the Institute of Physics (IOP) are eligible to receive a 25% discount on the article publication charge (APC) for this journal (applicable once per article). The discount can be selected during article submission.
Publication charges
Environmental Research: Water has no subscription charges, and the costs of publication are fully funded by article publication charges (APC).
As part of our commitment to open science, IOP Publishing is covering the article publication charge (APC) for all articles published in the journal. The list prices shown below will not be charged if your article is accepted for publication.
| GBP | EUR | USD | |
| Article publication charge* | £1775 | €2040 | $2395 |
| Reduced article publication charge* for Group B countries** | £500 | €575 | $675 |
| Reduced article publication charge for Group A countries** | £0 | €0 | $0 |
*excluding VAT where applicable
**eligibility criteria can be found here
APCs only apply to articles accepted for publication; there are no submission charges.
There are no other charges for publishing in Environmental Research: Water.
Paying for open access
Various discounts, waivers and funding arrangements are available to support our authors. Visit our Paying for open access page for further details.
Note that corresponding authors who are members of the Institute of Physics are entitled to a 25% discount on the APC.
Abstracting and indexing services
We work with our authors to help make their work as easy to discover as possible. Articles published in Environmental Research: Water will be available in relevant indexing services and databases when appropriate.