Environmental Health Perspectives, an influential environmental-science journal, will pause new publications indefinitely due to funding cuts from the National Institutes of Health. These cuts have significantly impacted their ability to publish vital research on pollutants and public health. Staff, informed of the budget reduction in April, have voiced concerns over the inability to continue producing quality work amidst decreasing resources. Without restoration of funding, the journal, along with the Journal of Health and Pollution, faces permanent cessation of publication, stifling critical contributions to environmental health literature.
"It's going to a real loss," said deputy editor Dana Boyd Barr, a professor at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. "I didn't think that environmental health was going to be something that was targeted for decreased funding."
In a statement to the New York Times, editor Joel Kaufman said that they announced the pause because of a "lack of confidence" in their ability to produce top work following the budget cuts.
"It's been the premier journal that everyone wanted to publish in," says Boyd Barr. "It was always the first place you went because you've got the most visibility there."
Combining a number of early retirements and buyouts among the federal workers tasked with aiding the journal's publication, they say the journal could not continue to publish or accept new manuscript submissions for peer review.
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