Journal of Environmental Monitoring (JEM) is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 publishing original (primary) research and review articles

Literature review

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 on any aspect of environmental science. JEM is published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...

 (RSC), the managing editor

Managing editor

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 is Harp Minhas and the chairman of the editorial board is Prof D. Swackhamer, University of Minnesota, USA.

JEM has been publishing since 1999 providing a forum for the dissemination of work associated with environmental processes and impacts; and has become an important journal in its field, with an impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 2.225.

JEM hosts another RSC publication, Highlights in Chemical Technology.

Subject coverage

JEM provides comprehensive coverage of physical, chemical and biological research relating to the analysis, detection, measurement and elucidation of all environmental processes and impacts. It also covers the management of contaminants in all natural and anthropogenic environments, with special emphasis on the effects of exposure to contaminants and associated health risks.

Article types

JEM contains peer-reviewed full research papers, technical notes, urgent communications, perspectives, critical reviews and mini-reviews.

Audience/readership

Industrial and academic scientists and professionals involved with environmental

Environmental monitoring

Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterise and monitor the quality of the environment...

 and biological monitoring; measurement and analytical scientists; legislators; government bodies; national and international environmental agencies; health and safety experts; toxicologists; industrial and occupational health professionals; medical and clinical researchers; technology and instrumentation experts.

Indexes and abstracts

It is indexed or abstracted in Analytical Abstracts

Analytical Abstracts

Analytical Abstracts is a current awareness and information retrieval service for analytical chemistry, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge, United Kingdom...

, Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts is a periodical index that provides summaries and indexes of disclosures in recently published scientific documents. Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent...

, Environment Abstracts, Fishlit database, Pollution Abstracts, EMBASE

EMBASE

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/Excerpta Medica, BIOBASE Current Awareness in Biological Sciences and GEO Abstracts, ISI-Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), ISI alerting services and Current Contents Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Science Physical Chemical and Earth Sciences, BIOSIS, Web of Science

Web of Science

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, Index Medicus & MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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, CAB International, International Food Information Science and VINITI Abstracts.

External links

• JEM homepage
• RSC Publishing homepage