Journal History
| 2004 | The inaugural issue was released. IJERPH was published as a biannual journal. Sponsored the First International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research. |
| 2006 | IJERPH adopted a quarterly publication schedule. |
| 2008 | IJERPH was indexed in PubMed. |
| 2009 | IJERPH adopted a monthly publication schedule. IJERPH was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). |
| 2012 | IJERPH received its first Impact Factor (1.605). |
| 2013 | IJERPH established the following section: -Health Economics. IJERPH announced the first edition of the First Best Paper Award. Sponsored Environment and Health Conference in Basel, Switzerland. |
| 2014 | The Impact Factor increased to 2.063. |
| 2016 | The Impact Factor increased to 2.101. IJERPH was indexed in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). |
| 2017 | The Impact Factor increased to 2.145. IJERPH became an affiliated journal of the International Society Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) and Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA) IJERPH establishes the following sections: -Global Health; -Health Services and Health Economics Research; -Environmental Science and Engineering; -Occupational Safety and Health; -Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion; -Climate Change and Health. IJERPH published 5,000th paper. |
| 2018 | IJERPH established the following sections: -Infectious Disease Epidemiology; -Mental Health; -Digital Health; -Children Health; -Women’s Health. The first International e-Conference on Environmental Health Sciences, sponsored by IJERPH, was held on Sciforum. |
| 2019 | The Impact Factor increased to 2.468. IJERPH adopted a semimonthly publication schedule. IJERPH established the following sections: -Health Communication; -Toxicology and Public Health; -Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment; -Emerging Contaminants; -Environmental Analysis and Methods; -Environmental Microbiology; -Environmental Remediation and Management; -Environment and Applied ecology; -Industrial Ecology; -Environmental Chemistry and Technology. IJERPH published 10,000th paper. |
| 2020 | The Impact Factor increased to 2.849. IJERPH established the following sections: -Exercise and Health; -Traumas; -Nursing; -Adolescents; -Skin Health; -Disabilities; -Reproductive Health; -Sport and Health. The following sections are discontinued: -Emerging Contaminants; -Environmental Analysis and Methods; -Environmental Remediation and Management; -Environment and Applied Ecology; -Industrial Ecology; -Environmental Chemistry and Technology; -Health Informatics. |
| 2021 |
The Impact Factor increased to 3.390. -Health Communication was renamed as Health Communication and Informatics. |
| 2022 | The Impact Factor increased to 4.614. IJERPH established the following sections: -Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being; -Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation; -Disaster Medicine; -Environmental Ecology. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2004–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paul B. Tchounwou |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2013–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Gerdtham for the section on Health Economics |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland for the section on Global Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. William A. Toscano for the section on Environmental Health |
| 2017–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yu-Pin Lin for the section on Environmental Science and Engineering |
| 2018–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jitse P. van Dijk for the section on Children's Health |
| 2018–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. David Berrigan for the section on Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ivo Iavicoli for the section on Occupational Safety and Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kristie L. Ebi for the section on Climate Change |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. William Douglas Evans for the section on Health Communication and Informatics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jimmy T. Efird for the section on Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment |
| 2019–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. U Rajendra Acharya for the section on Digital Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Pasquale Caponnetto for the section on Mental Health |
| 2020–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Paul Turner for the section on Toxicology and Public Health |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gianrico Spagnuolo for the section on Oral Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alessandra Casuccio for the section on Women's Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Zahid Ahmad Butt for the section on Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Pantelis T. Nikolaidis for the section on Exercise and Health |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jun Hou for the section on Water Science and Technology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Xianlai Zeng for the section on Anthropogenic Circularity Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xinbin Feng for the section on Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Cristina Cortis for the section on Sport and Health |
| 2022–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Javier Abián-Vicén for the section on Disease Prevention |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jinyou Shen for the section on Chemoenvironment Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David Rodríguez-Lázaro for the section on Environmental Microbiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Karl Goodkin for the section on Mental Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Dongsheng Ji for the section on Air Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. German Vicente-Rodríguez for the section on Adolescents Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Fulvio Lauretani for the section on Aging Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nicola Magnavita for the section on Nursing Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Bert for the section on Digital Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Olaf Gefeller for the section on Skin Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Lingxin Chen for the section on Environmental Science and Engineering Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Linyu Xu for the section on Environmental Ecology |
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Javier Abián-Vicén for the section on Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation |
