Submissions

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About

Environmental Health Advances (EHA) is dedicated to advancing knowledge related to toxicant-induced disease, with an eye on strategies that could be used to protect and improve human health. Our mission is to publish innovative and timely research that can ultimately lead to actionable solutions that foster healthier communities and sustainable ecosystems. Research suitable for submission would include a range of disciplines relevant to our mission, including but not limited to exposure science, toxicology, and environmental epidemiology.

Focus and Scope

Submission Checklist

Competing Interests

If authors have competing interests, they must disclose them in the Comments to the Editor section at the end of the submission process.

Submission Types

ARC-EHA will publish five different types of submissions: editorials, perspectives, research, reviews, and comments. Editorials are infrequent contributions from the Editors in Chief elucidating important developments or changes in the journal leadership or scope. Perspectives are visionary contributions of special significance to the field, which are typically not more than 10 pages in length. Reviews are timely and important syntheses of the literature in evolving areas and/or connecting previously disparate bodies of knowledge. Comments are contributions related to a previously published paper. The potential submission of perspectives, reviews, and comments must be approved prior to submission to ensure that the high standards for such contributions have a potential to be satisfied. Most submissions will be research manuscripts in which the length should be consistent with the intellectual contributions made. Research manuscripts should present sufficient information to reproduce the work, be concise, and not require supplemental information. Authors may also submit supplementary files to be reviewed and published alongside their main submission.

Submission Formats

The initial submission of any contribution should be in PDF format. No special formatting is necessary at review stage. Upon acceptance of a manuscript, all contributions must be formatted using the journal’s LaTeX template to ensure uniformity and reduce production costs. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure their article has been checked for grammar, spelling, appropriate referencing, formatted using the provided LaTeX style guide, and carefully proofread. Authors are encouraged to reference this list of previously used keywords when considering keywords for their LaTeX document.

Submission Components

Submissions must include a PDF of the manuscript; a statement by the authors of the fundamental contribution of the work of widespread significance needed to meet the requirements for publication in ARC-EHA; a complete listing of all authors, their affiliations, and contact information; a list of potential reviewers; a statement of financial support of the work; a statement of availability of all data and codes used to process or generate the data with link to a publicly accessible and persistent repository at the time of publication; and a declaration of potential conflicts of interest. In the "Comments to Editor" box in the final step of submission, please suggest at least two potential Editors in Chief to handle the submission and three potential peer reviewers.

Submission Standards

All submissions must be written to a high standard of excellence. Manuscripts not sufficiently well crafted and organized will be returned to the authors without undergoing peer review. Manuscripts will also be screened for plagiarism and use of generative AI, neither of which is allowed.

Peer Review

ARC-EHA is committed to a rigorous and transparent peer review process that upholds scholarly integrity and research quality in the geophysical sciences. ARC-EHA utilizes a single-blind peer review process in which reviewers know the identity of the authors, but authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. Manuscripts that advance past the initial screening process, which includes plagiarism and AI detection, are typically reviewed by two to three independent experts in the field. Reviewers are expected to evaluate submissions objectively, maintain confidentiality, disclose conflicts of interest, and provide timely and constructive feedback. ARC-EHA aims to provide an initial decision within four to six weeks of submission.

Copyright Notice

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Copyright
© the author(s). All rights reserved.
CC BY-ND 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-NC 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Cycle

Accepted articles in ARC-EHA are published immediately and compiled into annual issues.

Publication Fees

ARC Alliance utilizes a Diamond Open Access model in which no article processing charge will ever be paid by authors.

Sections

Section or article type	Public Submissions	Peer Reviewed	Indexed
Research Article	Yes	No	Yes

Open Access Statement

ARC-EHA is a fully open access journal. All content is freely available to readers without charge and without requiring registration or subscription. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the authors. This is in accordance with the definition of open access set out by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). We are committed to the principles of free and universal access to knowledge in the field of geophysical research.

Plagiarism Statement

ARC-EHA routinely screens submissions for plagiarism and AI use through iThenticate and GPTZero.