Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the publication of the inaugural issue of Environmental Evidence, the official journal of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE). Professor Andrew Pullin will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Environmental Evidence will provide a visible and accessible platform for formal systematic review and evidence synthesis on environmental issues. The central purpose of this journal is to encourage scientists to fully engage in the development of evidence-based environmental management by providing a publication outlet for systematic reviews and their associated materials such as protocols and systematic maps.
The journal will also welcome methodological papers providing guidance on systematic reviews as well as commentaries and letters to the editor, in order to facilitate debate and discussion. The first articles to be published in the journal highlight the broad application of systematic reviews in environmental sciences, as well as the journal’s aim to provide sound methodologies on which to base these.
The ultimate goal of the journal (and the CEE) is to benefit the environmental science community through providing evidence that will lead to more effective environmental management. It is therefore the Editor’s hope that the journal will answer the call for a rigorous methodology of systematic review which can be used to inform decision making and policy.
