Edited by:
Steven Gray, PhD, St James's Hospital, Ireland
Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 28 November 2025
Ecological Epigenetics: Unveiling Urban Impacts on the Epigenome
About the Collection
It is now well-established that exposure to environmental pollution affects the epigenome in diverse ways, and changes to the epigenome as a consequence of urban exposure to pollutants is rapidly emerging as an area of concern within the health-care setting. Exposures affecting the epigenome can include particulate matter (e.g., PM2.5), pesticides/herbicides and potentially noise and microplastic pollution. The purpose of this Collection is to explore the ramifications of such pollution on the epigenome with respect to long-term population health.
We welcome submissions of clinical/longitudinal or epidemiological studies, review articles, meta-analyses, original research (not limited to humans but can also include studies on animals and plants), advances in methodological developments (for example epigenetic clocks, epigenetic clonal heterogeneity studies etc.,) that explore the effects of urban pollution on population health at all levels including reproduction and development (including studies on the effects of pollutants on epigenetics within germ cells/during pregnancy/off-spring), transgenerational inheritance, disease risk, or in other pathophysiology’s or co-morbidities.
There are currently no articles in this collection.
Submission Guidelines
Back to topThis Collection welcomes submissions of original research and review articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Ecological Epigenetics: Unveiling Urban Impacts on the Epigenome" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.