Focus and Scope

Pollution and Diseases is an international, peer-reviewed open-access journal focusing on the relationships between environmental pollution, disease processes, and long-term impacts on human health, ecosystems, and socio-environmental systems.

The journal addresses pollution as a complex, cumulative, and often transboundary phenomenon, emphasizing its biological, ecological, and societal consequences. Particular attention is given to underexplored, emerging, and conflict-related environmental impacts, including war-induced pollution and its long-term health and environmental effects.

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following thematic areas:

  • Environmental pollution of air, water, and soil

  • Chemical, biological, and radiological contaminants

  • Environmental toxicology and exposure pathways

  • Pollution-related disease mechanisms and health outcomes

  • Freshwater and marine system degradation

  • Soil contamination, land degradation, and land-use change

  • War-related, post-conflict, and disaster-induced environmental damage

  • Long-term and cumulative environmental health impacts

  • Environmental monitoring, assessment, and modelling

  • Climate–pollution–health interactions

  • Environmental governance, policy, and responsibility

  • Ethical dimensions of environmental pollution and scientific practice

Pollution and Diseases encourages interdisciplinary and critical approaches that integrate environmental sciences, public health, ecology, toxicology, epidemiology, geography, policy studies, and related fields.

The journal welcomes the following types of contributions: original research articles, review articles, editorial commentaries, perspectives and conceptual papers, and policy and responsibility analyses, provided they fall within the journal’s thematic focus.

Detailed editorial procedures and ethical standards are described in the journal’s Editorial Policies.