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Environmental Health reflects on its first 5 years

An editorial just published in Environmental Health reflects on the first five years of publication and looks ahead to the future.

In just five years, Philippe Grandjean and David Ozonoff have steered the journal on a successful path and the journal has built a strong reputation in its field as a home for environmental health research. Enviromental Health was also recently accepted for indexing by Thomson Scientific and is on course to receive its first impact factor. 

Publishing ethics are an important issue for the Editors-in-Chief of any biomedical journal and the Editors of Environmental Health have taken steps to address this. Anthony Robbins has been appointed Ombudsman for the journal to act impartially in any cases of dispute between authors and Editors.  In addition, the Editors are planning to provide full details of any competing interests they may have on the Editorial Board listings for their journal, ensuring transparency.

The article also reviews and lays out some of the journal policies and describes certain key issues in publishing such as the use of digital technologies and open access; please click here to read the full article.

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