Environmental Health Perspectives

Environmental Health Perspectives, abbreviated Environ. Health Perspect. , Is a scientific journal that is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( NIEHS ). The first issue appeared in April 1972. The journal is published monthly. The journal publishes articles of a multidisciplinary field: There are articles in the field of basic research, epidemiology, risk assessment, law and politics published. The journal provides an open and free access to all articles.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 7.26. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the Journal is out with this impact factor in the category of public health, environmental and occupational medicine at the second place of 158 magazines and in the category Environmental Sciences in fourth place of 209 magazines.

Editor in chief is Hugh A. Tilson ( National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA).