Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection: Complete Guide to the Series

Overview

Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection is a peer-reviewed book series published by Elsevier that addresses the science, management, and policy of chemical pollution in the environment. Launched in 2017, it is one of the newer serials in Elsevier's environmental portfolio, and it was created to give sustained, book-length treatment to subjects — pollutant fate and transport, remediation technologies, environmental monitoring, waste management, and the governance of chemical risks — that often receive only fragmented coverage in primary research journals.

The series follows the thematic-volume model that Elsevier uses across its "Advances in" environmental serials. Each volume is organized around a defined topic and assembles invited chapters from international specialists, so that a single volume can serve as a state-of-the-art reference on subjects such as plastic pollution, microplastic removal technologies, the environmental behavior of nanomaterials, or the control of membrane fouling in water treatment. Because the volumes are published as books with their own ISBNs while also being indexed as serial literature in Scopus, they reach both library book collections and the citation databases that researchers search.

The subject coverage of the series sits at the intersection of environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, and environmental policy. Scopus classifies the serial across several subject areas — Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution, and Waste Management and Disposal — a spread that reflects the series' ambition to connect the laboratory science of pollutants with the practical work of managing and regulating them.

For a young serial, Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection has built a respectable citation record: Scopus-based aggregators report a CiteScore of 2.5 and a SNIP of 0.93, with an h-index in the low teens, and ScienceDirect lists the series as continuing through at least Volume 14 (2026). It is a book series, not a journal: contributions are commissioned chapters, there is no open manuscript submission portal, and there are no article processing charges.

Aims and Scope

The series aims to provide authoritative, in-depth coverage of chemical pollution — its sources, its behavior in environmental media, its effects on ecosystems and human health, and the technologies and policies available to manage and reduce it — together with the broader themes of environmental management and protection. The "advances" framing signals the intent: each volume is meant to capture the current frontier of its topic rather than to serve as an introductory textbook.

The scope spans the full lifecycle of chemical pollution problems. On the science side, volumes address the sources and transport of pollutants (including the atmosphere as a transport pathway for plastic waste), the transformation and fate of contaminants in water, soil, and air, and the ecotoxicological effects of substances ranging from pharmaceuticals and microplastics to engineered nanomaterials. On the technology side, the series covers removal and remediation approaches — for example, cutting-edge methods for removing microplastics from industrial effluents and membrane modification techniques for controlling fouling and biofouling in pressure-driven membrane processes. On the management side, it addresses monitoring strategies, risk assessment, and the policy and legal frameworks through which chemical pollution is governed.

This breadth is deliberate. Chemical pollution is an inherently interdisciplinary problem: understanding it requires chemistry and toxicology, managing it requires engineering and monitoring, and controlling it requires policy and law. By housing all three dimensions in a single serial, the series gives readers — whether they are researchers, practitioners, or regulators — a single place to find the state of knowledge across the whole problem.

The intended readership includes environmental chemists and engineers, ecotoxicologists, water and waste professionals, researchers in environmental management and policy, and graduate students in environmental science and engineering programs. The volumes are also used by regulatory and consultancy professionals who need consolidated, expert-written overviews of specific pollution topics.

Publication Details

Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection is published by Elsevier B.V. (Netherlands) in English. The series began in 2017, and Scopus coverage is recorded from 2017 onward. Volumes appear as books — in hardcover/print and electronic editions — and chapters are hosted on ScienceDirect with individual DOIs under the Elsevier book-series prefix 10.1016/bs.apmp.

The dual ISSN arrangement (electronic 2468-9270, print 2468-9289) is the standard pattern for Elsevier's contemporary book series: the electronic ISSN identifies the serial in digital indexes while each print volume carries its own ISBN for library cataloguing.

Editorial Model

Like other Elsevier thematic book series, Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection operates on a commissioning model. Volume editors — specialists in the volume's theme — are appointed to assemble the contributor list, and chapters are invited from researchers with recognized expertise in the topic. There is no standing editorial board published in the manner of a journal, and no open manuscript submission system; the series editors and volume editors function as curators of each volume's content.

Chapters go through the publisher's editorial and peer-review processes for book content before publication. The chapter DOIs (for example, 10.1016/bs.apmp.2025.03.004 for a 2025 chapter on plastic waste and the atmosphere) make each contribution individually citable and discoverable through Crossref and the citation databases.

Notable Volumes and Representative Content

Because the series is young, its backlist is compact but already indicative of its range. Recent volumes have addressed some of the most active topics in environmental science. A 2025 volume includes chapters on cutting-edge approaches for the removal of microplastics from industrial effluents and a global overview of plastic waste that examines the key role of the atmosphere in the sources, transport, and impacts of plastic pollution — reflecting the growing scientific recognition that atmospheric transport is a major pathway for plastic debris.

Other recent chapters illustrate the series' coverage of emerging contaminants and technologies: the role of colloidal stability in nanomaterials in-vitro toxicity testing (using an nZVI–microalgae colloidal system as a case study); the identification and toxicity of the smallest fractions released from hydrolytic degradation of polycaprolactone microplastics toward aquatic primary producers; a critical review of membrane modification techniques for fouling and biofouling control in pressure-driven membrane processes; and multinational survey work on cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plants, connecting chemical pollution themes with the antimicrobial-resistance agenda.

This selection shows the series doing what its title promises: advancing from the chemistry of pollution through the technologies of management to the broader questions of environmental protection. The volumes are designed to be useful both as cover-to-cover reads for specialists in the volume's theme and as chapter-level references for researchers who need an authoritative entry point to a specific subtopic.

Indexing and Abstracting

The series is indexed in Scopus, which is the primary citation database tracking its performance — Scopus coverage is recorded from 2017 through 2025. Through Scopus, the serial receives a CiteScore, SNIP, and SJR, and its chapters are discoverable alongside journal literature in the same subject areas.

Chapters are assigned Crossref DOIs and appear on ScienceDirect with abstracts, author affiliations, and reference lists. The serial's subject classification in Scopus spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution, and Waste Management and Disposal — categories in which the serial has achieved quartile rankings (best quartile Q2 in earlier coverage years).

Why Researchers Cite Thematic Volumes

There is a practical reason that chapters from series like this one accumulate citations steadily: they lower the cost of entering a new topic. A researcher beginning work on microplastic removal, for instance, can read a single commissioned chapter and emerge with a map of the competing technologies, their removal efficiencies, their limitations, and the open questions — plus a bibliography that would take weeks to assemble from scratch. Supervisors assign such chapters to new doctoral students for exactly this reason, and authors cite them as the convenient authority for background statements that would otherwise require a string of primary references.

Volume editors, for their part, use the commissioning process to shape a field's conversation. By choosing which subtopics get chapters and which experts write them, an editor effectively declares what the important questions are — a curatorial act that carries real intellectual influence. This is why the choice of volume themes in Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection is itself informative: the topics Elsevier and its editors have chosen to commission — plastics and the atmosphere, microplastic remediation, nanomaterial toxicity, membrane technologies, antimicrobial resistance in wastewater — are a reasonable proxy for where the environmental research community's attention has been concentrated in the series' lifetime.

Metrics (Scopus-Based Figures as Reported)

Because this is a book series rather than a journal, it does not receive a Journal Citation Reports Impact Factor. The metrics below are Scopus-based figures as reported by independent metric aggregators; they change with each Scopus release, so readers should consult the current Scopus source record for up-to-date values.

These figures should be read as what they are: indicators of a young serial building its citation base, not a mature journal's track record. The series has no article processing charges and no open-access fee model; the metrics are reported for information only.

How to Access and Contribute

The series is written for readers and invited contributors. Chapters are commissioned by volume editors; there is no open manuscript submission portal. Researchers who believe their work fits a forthcoming volume's theme should contact the volume editors or approach Elsevier's book acquisitions editors with a proposal — the standard route for edited-volume contributions is a chapter proposal including the topic, the authors' credentials, and an outline.

Librarians and collection developers should note the serial's dual identity when cataloguing: the series ISSNs identify the continuing resource in discovery systems, while each volume's ISBN identifies the individual book for acquisitions and circulation. Because citation databases index the chapters as serial content, researchers may encounter individual chapters through literature searches without ever seeing the volume they belong to — which is precisely why the series page's volume-level tables of contents are worth consulting when a chapter proves useful.

Readers can access the series through institutional subscriptions to ScienceDirect, where chapter abstracts are freely viewable and full text is available to subscribers; through print volumes purchased from Elsevier or academic booksellers; and through academic library collections and interlibrary loan. The ScienceDirect series page lists all volumes with their tables of contents, making it straightforward to identify the volume or chapter relevant to a given research question.

For citation, the serial is abbreviated Adv. Chem. Pollut. Environ. Manag. Prot. A chapter citation includes the chapter authors, chapter title, volume editors, series title and volume number, Elsevier, the year, the page range, and the chapter DOI.

Audience and Uses

The primary audience is the environmental research community: environmental chemists, ecotoxicologists, environmental engineers, and researchers in waste management, water treatment, and environmental monitoring. The thematic volumes are particularly useful to doctoral students and early-career researchers entering a subfield, because a single volume can provide the orientation that would otherwise require reading dozens of primary papers.

The Series' Place in Environmental Publishing

To understand why a serial like this exists, it helps to see the gap it fills. Primary journals in environmental chemistry and engineering publish thousands of articles a year, but they publish them one finding at a time; the synthesis work — the careful comparison of competing removal technologies, the integration of atmospheric transport into plastic-pollution budgets, the evaluation of which monitoring strategies actually work at scale — tends to be under-supplied because it is harder to produce and harder to place. Thematic book series exist precisely to commission that synthesis work, paying specialists to step back from their own latest results and write the definitive account of a topic.

Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection arrived at a moment when demand for such synthesis was growing. The 2010s and 2020s have been the decades in which chemical pollution moved decisively up the policy agenda: microplastics went from a niche research topic to a subject of international treaty negotiation; per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances became a household acronym; antimicrobial resistance was recognized as an environmental as well as a clinical problem; and the circular economy reframed waste management as resource management. A serial launched in 2017, organized around exactly these themes, was well positioned to serve the researchers, engineers, and regulators working through them.

The series also reflects a broader trend in scholarly publishing: the migration of review literature from journals toward commissioned book content. For readers, the practical consequence is that the most useful overviews of fast-moving environmental topics increasingly appear in volumes like these rather than in review journals — which makes knowing the series, and searching its chapter-level content, a genuine research skill. The chapter DOIs and ScienceDirect indexing mean the content is as discoverable as journal literature; the difference is mainly in how it was commissioned and how it is sold.

A secondary audience includes environmental managers, water-industry professionals, consultants, and regulators, for whom the series' consolidated expert treatment of topics such as microplastic remediation, membrane technologies, and pollutant monitoring offers practical value. University libraries collect the series as part of their environmental science holdings.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection a journal?

No. It is a peer-reviewed book series of themed volumes published by Elsevier. It is indexed in Scopus as a serial, but its contents are commissioned book chapters, not journal articles, and there is no manuscript submission system.

What are the ISSNs of the series?

The electronic ISSN is 2468-9270 and the print ISSN is 2468-9289.

When did the series start?

2017. Scopus coverage is recorded from 2017 onward, and ScienceDirect lists the series as continuing through at least Volume 14 (2026).

Does it have an Impact Factor?

No Journal Citation Reports Impact Factor — it is a book series, not a JCR-tracked journal. Scopus-based metrics reported by aggregators include a CiteScore of 2.5 and a SNIP of 0.93.

Can I submit a manuscript?

Chapters are commissioned by volume editors. There is no open submission portal; proposals should go through the volume editors or Elsevier's book acquisitions channels.

Is there an article processing charge?

No. The series uses a book-publishing economic model with no APC.

Where can I read the volumes?

On ScienceDirect (abstracts free; full text via subscription or purchase), in print from Elsevier or booksellers, and in academic library collections.

Sources and Further Reading

• ScienceDirect series page: Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection — all bookseries volumes (ISSN 2468-9289, Volume 14, 2026)
• ResearchBite journal-metrics page for the series (book-series classification, ISSNs 24689270/24689289, SJR, h-index, coverage 2017–2021)
• Resurchify metrics page (impact score 2.69, h-index 14, coverage 2017–2025, abbreviation)
• Researcher.Life journal page (CiteScore 2.5, SNIP 0.93, eISSN/pISSN)
• Editage journal page (publisher, eISSN/pISSN, CiteScore, SNIP)
• Consorcio Madroño research portal author records (2025 chapter DOI 10.1016/bs.apmp.2025.03.004, ISSNs)