ISSN 2083-4772
eISSN 2083-4810
Archives of Environmental Protection is the oldest Polish scientific journal of international scope that publishes articles on engineering and environmental protection. The quarterly has been published by the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences since 1975. The journal has served as a forum for the exchange of views and ideas among scientists. It has become part of scientific life in Poland and abroad. The quarterly publishes the results of research and scientific inquiries by best specialists hereby becoming an important pillar of science. The journal facilitates better understanding of environmental risks to humans and ecosystems and it also shows the methods for their analysis as well as trends in the search of effective solutions to minimize these risks.
Copyright on any open access article in the Archives of Environmental Protection journal published by Polish Academy of Sciences is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Polish Academy of Sciences a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any user the right to use the article freely if its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0) formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.
The editorial team of Archives of Environmental Protection implements an open access policy by publishing materials in the form of the so-called Gold Open Access and encourages authors to place articles published in the journal in open repositories (after the review or the final version of the publisher), provided that a link to the journal’s website is provided.
For the articles which were previously published, before year 2021, policies that are different from the above. In all such, access to these articles is free from fees or any other access restrictions. Permissions for the use of the texts published in that journal may be sought directly from the Editors, by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The journal is indexed by Clarivate Analytics services (Biological Abstract, BIOSIS Previews) and has an Impact Factor (June 2023) of 1.5.
CiteScore 2022: 2.9
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2022: 0.351
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2022: 0.485
The quarterly journal mainly publishes original research papers on topics such as:
- Air Quality Assessment; Air Pollution Prevention and Cleanup;
- Wastewater treatment and treatment; Soil protection and remediation;
- Hydrology and water quality assessment, water treatment; Waste management;
- Ecosystem restoration, toxicology and environmental sustainability;
- Transformation and transport of organic pollutants in the environment;
- Conversion and transport of inorganic pollutants in the environment;
- Measurement techniques used in environmental engineering and monitoring;
- Other topics directly related to engineering and environmental protection.
