IJERPH’s success story is continued during the year 2020. Its stable position as a top-quality journal in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) combined with a steady increasing submission rate with 23,365 new submission in 2020 and a five-year-in-a-row increase in impact factor rank place IJERPH as the most informative journal in environmental and public health research.

In 2020, we received 23,365 new submissions, with an annual growth of 85.88% and published 9440 papers, an increase of 78.28%. The median processing time (from submission to publication online) was 39 days in 2020. A total of 627 new editorial board members have joined us, and the number of editorial board members increased to 1440. There are also 695 topics editors and 506 reviewer board members who newly joined, with increasing rates of 288% and 158%, respectively. We now have 15,228 subscribers in total.

IJERPH has been expanding its scope with seven new sections: Traumas; Nursing; Adolescents; Disabilities; Reproductive Health; Sport and Health; and Skin Health and with its intensively cited COVID-19-related articles, the journal will continue to attract more and more authors from all over the world who appreciate its very efficient peer review and publishing processes.

High Altimetric Papers

Global Health
Airborne Transmission Route of COVID-19: Why 2 Meters/6 Feet of Inter-Personal Distance Could Not Be Enough
Leonardo Setti et al.

Exercise and Health
Wearing of Cloth or Disposable Surgical Face Masks has no Effect on Vigorous Exercise Performance in Healthy Individuals
Keely Shaw et al.

Environmental Health
Global to USA County Scale Analysis of Weather, Urban Density, Mobility, Homestay, and Mask Use on COVID-19
Sajad Jamshidi et al.

Mental Health
Nutritional Factors, Physical Health and Immigrant Status Are Associated with Anxiety Disorders among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Findings from Baseline Data of The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Karen M. Davison et al.

Mental Health
Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China
Cuiyan Wang et al.

Collections/Special Issues

IJERPH runs Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by guest editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website.

Hot Special Issues

Adult Psychiatry
Sports and Health
Occupational Health Psychology
Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sports
Rethinking Work in the Digital Era to Protect the Environment and Promote Health

Open Calls

Topical Collection "Aging and Public Health"
edited by Matthew Lee Smith and Marcia G. Ory

Topical Collection "2nd Edition of Achieving Environmental Health Equity: Great Expectations"
edited by Timothy E. Ford and Margaret J. Eggers

Topical Collection "COVID-19 Research"
edited by Paul B. Tchounwou

Read full list of call for papers: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues

On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of IJERPH, all Section Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members, as well as to the Guest Editors of Special Issues, Topic Board Members, and Reviewer Board Members, all of whom have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.

In 2021, IJERPH will continue to contribute to academic exchange and sharing of knowledge.