The Journal of Hazardous Materials is an international forum that advances world class research by publishing articles in the areas of Environmental Science and Engineering. We publish full-length research papers, review articles, and perspectives that improve our understanding of the hazards and risks that certain materials pose to public health and the environment. Authors are supposed to address two questions in their manuscripts: 1) is the studied subject an environmental contaminant? and 2) is the study conducted under an environmentally relevant condition?

"Environmental contaminants" exclude the compounds that do not exert hazardous effects on the environment or humans via contamination. Of note, difference between wastes and hazardous materials needs to be spotlighted to further clarify the JHM scope. The journal is highly interested in specific compounds or microbial agents with environmentally hazardous effects.

"Environmentally relevant conditions" typically require an experiment or modeling study to be conducted with the consideration of environmental factors, such as temperature, pH, environmental matrix constituents, and chemical doses for waste removal, within their respective realistic occurrence ranges. Particularly, we have noticed that studies on nanomaterials or emerging contaminants (e.g., sensing/detection, effects, and removal) in many manuscripts were performed with unrealistically high concentrations, which can be several orders of magnitude higher than their real occurrence ranges in an environmental medium.

Environmental implications from such studies would be very limited. Although higher concentrations may exhibit a full spectrum of hazardous effects, a manuscript ought to embrace realistic level(s) of a hazardous material in the range of the studied concentrations.

Examples of the topics that are outside the journal's scope can be found in this editorial: Refining the scope of Journal of Hazardous Materials

Full-length research papers 
Review Article
Letter to the Editor

Editors
Diana Aga
University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United StatesEmail Diana Aga Environmental Analysis, Emerging Contaminants, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Wastewater Treatment, Biodegradation, Antibiotic Resistance, Mass Spectrometry, Ecotoxicity
Andrew J. Daugulis
Queen's University Department of Chemistry, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Email Andrew J. Daugulis Environmental Biotechnology, Bioresource Engineering, Cell Culture Engineering, and Industrial Bioprocesssing
Zhen (Jason) He
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United StatesEmail Zhen (Jason) He Water pollution and treatment; Environmental biotechnology; Resource recovery from wastes; Bioelectrochemical systems; Bioenergy; Membrane technology; Bioremediation; Desalination
Éder Claudio Lima
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Chemistry Institute, Brazil Email Éder Claudio Lima Emerging contaminants, adsorption, biosorption, preparation of adsorbents, green chemistry, Advanced Oxidative Process, Nanomaterials, Heavy metals, Soil, Environmental Chemistry, catalysis, photocatalysis
Gerasimos Lyberatos
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Email Gerasimos LyberatosBioprocesses, Environmental Engineering, Biodegradation, Water And Wastewater Treatment, Solid Waste Management, Industrial Waste Management, Combined Chemical And Biological Treatment, Energy From Biomass, Life Cycle Analysis
Yong Sik Ok
Korea University Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Email Yong Sik Ok Biochar, Resilience, Soil remediation, Biomass, Bioenergy
Special Issues Editor
Jörg Rinklebe
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Soils, sediments, waters, plants, and their pollutions (in particular trace elements and nutrients) and linked biogeochemical issues with a special focus in redox chemistry; Remediation of soils and soil microbiology.
Associate Editors
Xiaohong Guan
Tongji University School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai, ChinaEmail Xiaohong Guan Advanced oxidation processes; Permanganate oxidation; Ferrate oxidation; Disinfection by-products; Zerovalent iron; Drinking water treatment; Heavy metals; Emerging organic contaminants; Adsorption; Catalysis
Deyi Hou
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Email Deyi Hou Sustainability assessment; Life cycle assessment; Environmental footprint analysis; Risk management; Contaminated soil and groundwater remediation; Heavy metal contamination; Biochar production and application; Green synthesis of environmental functional materials; Fate and transport of volatile organic compounds in porous media
Teresa Rocha-Santos
University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Email Teresa Rocha-Santos Micro(nano)plastic, Plastic, Microfibres, Organic contaminants, Marine monitoring, Environmental monitoring, Wastewater treatment, Biodegradation of microplastics, Sensors, Biosensors
Debora Rodrigues
University of Houston System at Sugar Land, Houston, Texas, United States Email Debora Rodrigues Nanotechnology, Nanotoxicology, Bioremediation, Microbial ecology, Biotoxicity, Heavy metal pollution, Biotechnology, Water and wastewater treatment, Biosorption, Photocatalysis
Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz
Catalan Institute of Investigation of Water, Girona, Spain Email Sara Rodriguez-MozazEnvironmental chemistry and analysis related to organic micropollutantsAnalysis of organic emerging pollutants in wastewater, surface, marine and groundwater, sediments and biotaEndocrine disruptors, cancer drugs, Pharmaceuticals, including antibioticsTransformation productsBioaccumulation of micropollutants in aquatic organismsBiomonitoringMetabolomicsWastewater EpidemiologyEnvironmental impactHuman Health impact
Navid B. Saleh
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States Email Navid B. SalehNanomaterials; Water pollution and treatment; Emerging contaminants; Appropriate treatment technologies for low-income communities; contaminant fate and transport.
Danmeng Shuai
The George Washington University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington, Washington, United States Email Danmeng Shuai Catalysis, Nanotechnology, Membrane separation, Nanomaterial-biological interactions
Daniel Tsang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email Daniel Tsang Green chemistry/engineering; Soil/sediment remediation; Engineered biochar; Waste valorization; Resource recovery; Wastewater/stormwater treatment; Catalytic conversion/degradation; Pollutant transport; Environmental pollution | Sustainable urban development, urban wastes, contaminated land and water, waste management (food, wood, plastic agro, sludge), green remediation, wastewater treatment.
Editorial Board
Dong An
Fudan University Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai, China
Roberto Andreozzi
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Antonio Ballester
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Shannon Leigh Bartelt-Hunt
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Civil Engineering, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Enric Brillas
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Non-dl-POPs, FRs, levels, trends, analytical methods, food chain accumulation, interlab studies, biomonitoring, fate, exposure, fish, shellfish toxins
Hefa Cheng
Peking University, Beijing, China Environmental geochemistry; Heavy metals; Environmental monitoring; Health risk assessment; Food safety; Soil pollution; Waste management; Environmental transport and fate of pollutants; Waste treatment and disposal
Valerio Cozzani
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Yang Deng
Montclair State University Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, New Jersey, United States Chemical Oxidation and Reduction; Adsorption; Water Treatment and Reuse; Stormwater Pollution and Control; Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Disposal
Dionysios Dionysiou
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Advanced oxidation technologies for water treatment, drinking water treatment and purification, water quality, treatment, reuse, and monitoring, sustainable water processes, physicochemical phenomena on particle-water interfaces, transition-metal oxidation and reverse electron transfer reactions, the use of ionic liquids in environmental applications, destruction of biological toxins in water, environmental nanotechnology (fundamental, fate, transport, and applications of nanomaterials), Remediation, Environmental catalysis. Moderate Experience: Some experience also on separations (membranes, adsorption, solvent extraction). Less experience: biological treatment processes, resource recovery, biofuels/bioenergy, microbial fuel cells.
Mehmet Erdem
Firat University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Elazığ, Turkey Water pollution and treatment, Emerging contaminants, Advanced oxidation processes, Heavy metal pollution, Stabilization and solidification of industrial solid wastes, Preparation and characterization of catalysts, biochar and activated carbon
Santi Esplugas
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Advanced Oxidation Processes, Photocatalysis, Fenton, Ozonation, Wastewater treatment
Zhengping Hao
Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Young-Shin Jun
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, United States Nanochemistry, Nucleation, CO2 sequestration, desalination, water reuse and resource recovery
Sung-Eun Lee
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Wen-Jhy Lee
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Panagiotis Lianos
University of Patras School of Engineering, Patra, Greece -Photocatalysis for water cleaning: photodegradation of organic pollutants-Photocatalysis for energy applications: production of hydrogen by photodegradation of water pollutants or products of biomass; dye-sensitized solar cells-New materials for adsorption and retention of pollutants from water.
Lena Ma
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Biogeochemistry of trace metals in soils, wastes, and plants; Soil contamination and remediation; Phytoremediation; Chemical stabilization; Metal speciation; Metal bioavailability and bioaccessibility; Metal exposure and human health; Plant metal uptake and transport; Microbial transformation of metals; Metal availability and food safety
Raffaele Marotta
University of Naples Federico II Department of Chemistry, Napoli, Italy
Dinesh Mohan
Jawaharlal Nehru University School of Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaEnvironmental/Analytical/Aquatic/Surface Chemistry Remediation and Encapsulation of Priority Pollutants from water Water Quality Monitoring, Modeling and Assessment Biorenewable Resources: Bio-oils Biorefineries Environmentally benign wood preservatives
Catherine Mulligan
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Patryk Oleszczuk
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland Biochar; organic contaminants; heavy metals; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; nanoparticles; sewage sludge; ecotoxicology; remediation
David O’Connor
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Soil and groundwater pollution; Biochar; Microplastics (MPs); Green and sustainable solutions; Contaminated land remediation
Jong Moon Park
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea, Republic of
Hans Pasman
TNO, Delft, Netherlands Dr.Ir. Hans J. Pasman is TEES Research Professor at Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center of the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering of Texas A&M University, and he is Emeritus Professor Chemical Risk Management of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Graduated in chemical technology at Delft University of Technology in 1961, with Ph.D. in 1964 while employed by Shell, he joined the Dutch organisation for Applied Research, TNO, where he did or led many investigations into disastrous industrial accidents, he initiated and led research in reactive materials, explosions of all types, and risk analysis. He was chairman of the International Group on Unstable Substances for 10 years, the European Study Group on Risk Analysis (1980-1985), a NATO Group on Explosives, and the Working Party on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries (1986-2004) and in this latter capacity in 1992 co-founder of the European Process Safety Centre. He has been member of the Dutch Council of Hazardous Substances (2004-2012).
Spyros G. Pavlostathis
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Environmental biotechnology; Bioprocess engineering; Wastewater treatment; Anaerobic digestion; Biotransformation; Bioremediation; Bioenergy and biofuels; Bioelectrochemical systems; Kinetics and modeling
Michael J. Plewa
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Xie Quan
Dalian University of Technology School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian, China Advanced oxidation technologies(AOTs), Functional materials for environmental application, Electrocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Membrane separation
Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Nugegoda, Sri LankaAdsorption/Sorption, Remediation, Environmental Chemistry, Heavy metals
Susan Richardson
University of South Carolina Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Manuel Andres Rodrigo
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Virender K Sharma
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
Hocheol Song
Sejong University Department of Energy and Environment, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Piotr Stepnowski
Zeman Svatopluk
University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic Explosives, Initiation reactivity of EMs, Physical organic chemistry of EMs
Meiping Tong
Peking University College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, ChinaWater disinfection, Microplastics, Heavy metal removal, Organic pollutants degradation
Sibel Tunali Akar
Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Shaobin Wang
The University of Adelaide School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Nanoparticles and nanotechnology; Advanced oxidation processes; Air pollution and control; Wasterwater treatment technology; Solid waste conversion and treatment 
Xiangke Wang
North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
Xin Wang
Nankai University College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Jinnan District, Tianjin, China Microbial electrochemical technology; Electroactive biofilm; Anaerobic digestion; Nitrogen recovery, DNRA
Xin YANG
Sun Yat-Sen University School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China Water treatment, Chemical oxidation, Emerging contaminants
Yi Yang
East China Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences; State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Shanghai, China Nanoparticles, Behavior, Incidental, POPs, ARGs 
Siming You
University of Glasgow School of Engineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom Waste management; Waste to Resource; Biochar; Optimisation; Process modelling
Jiaguo Yu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis Processing, Wuhan, China Preparation, modification, characterization and application of porous and nano-structured materials; semiconductor photocatalysis for water and air purification; photocatalytic hydrogen production; dye-sensitized solar cells and adsorption
Anastasios Zouboulis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Water and wastewater treatment, Industrial Solid Waste Management and Treatment, Circular economy applications, Green Chemistry and Green Chemical Technology