This issue bears the new name Exposure & Health (E&H), shortened from Water, Quality, Exposure & Health (WQEH) that was used in the previous issues. As such E&H/WQEH is entering its 8th year of publication, and a significant year as the journal has just been accepted to Web of Science, and has received it’s first Impact Factor from Journal Citation Reports, at 0.912, which we are looking forward to building over the coming years.

The shortening of the title to Exposure & Health marks a shift of emphasis to look at the exposure of humans from all environmental exposure vectors to environmental contaminants; namely water, air, soil and food. This was always implicit in WQEH’s original vision, but it was an obvious step to change the title to reflect the the journals holistic interest in biogeochemical cycles result in human exposure to environmental contaminants, and subsequent health consequences. As such, E&H is the only journal that has as it’s core remit to link environmental vectors to human health, with the emphasis explicitly on those vectors. Exposure & Health has a clear USP and wants to build this brand around the dynamic scientific community that occupies this research space. The approach adopted to studying human exposure to environmental contaminants is illustrate by our first issue as E&H, where exposure to humans from sewage effluent, organochlorine pesticides, and toxic elements from from contaminated soils and waters with water, plants and seafood being the exposure pathways.

As well as a unique identity Exposure & Health has an efficient editorial office with currently a 36 days submission to decision time period, and 20 days from acceptance to Online First publication.