JEPH accepts original research articles, review articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, short communications, and case reports focused on environmental pollutants, environmental toxicology, health risk assessment, water and wastewater quality, air pollution, solid waste management, environmental epidemiology, and occupational health.
Yes. All submitted manuscripts undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, ensuring that both authors and reviewers remain anonymous throughout the evaluation to maintain scientific integrity and objectivity.
The editorial process follows clear timelines:
Initial Editorial Screening / First Decision: 2 to 4 weeks from submission.
Peer-Review Period (Received to Revision): 2 to 4 months.
Final Editorial Decision (Revised to Accepted): 1 to 14 days.
Acceptance to Online Publication: A few days up to 2 months.
Yes. JEPH is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication with no subscription fees or access restrictions.
JEPH is published quarterly (4 issues per year) online. Each accepted and published article is assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for persistent linking, accurate citation, and indexing.
No. JEPH does not charge any submission fees or Article Processing Charges (APCs). The entire peer-review and publication process is fully supported and funded by Lorestan University of Medical Sciences.
Yes. Any study involving human subjects, clinical trials, animal experiments, or hazardous environmental field sampling must include approval from a certified Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Ethics Committee. The ethics approval ID/code must be explicitly stated in the manuscript.
No. Manuscripts submitted to JEPH must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration by any other journal. Simultaneous submission is considered unethical publishing practice according to COPE guidelines.
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via the journal’s online submission system at https://jeph.lums.ac.ir. Authors must adhere to the formatting requirements provided in the Guide for Authors.
The Journal of Environmental Pollutants and Health Risks (JEPH) is indexed and abstracted in Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Google Scholar, ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources), Index Copernicus, and other scientific databases, and is continuously expanding its indexing profile in leading international repositories.