Environmental Systems Research (ESR), the official journal of the PEOPLE Network, selected 15 articles for its 2025 Editors’ Choice collection, showcasing research across environmental science, emerging contaminants, water quality, climate change, sustainable technologies, and environmental management.
Published by Springer Nature and led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Bing Chen of Memorial University of Newfoundland, ESR supports the PEOPLE Network’s mission to advance research, training, and collaboration on persistent, emerging, and organic pollutants in the environment.
The Editors’ Choice collection offers PEOPLE researchers, trainees, and collaborators an opportunity to explore selected research and consider ESR as a potential venue for sharing their findings.
Journal highlights
- 2025 Impact Factor: 5.1
- Q2 ranking in Environmental Sciences
- International, peer-reviewed, open-access journal
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Editor’s choices 2025
PFAS in water environments: recent progress and challenges in monitoring, toxicity, treatment technologies, and post-treatment toxicity
Aya Alsadik, Olufemi Oluseun Akintunde, Hamid R. Habibi & Gopal Achari
Review
Published: 11 August 2025
Evolution from the physical process-based approaches to machine learning approaches to predicting urban floods: a literature review
Md Shike Bin Mazid Anik, Chunjiang An & S. Samuel Li
Review
Published: 19 July 2025
Machine learning with environmental predictors to forecast hospital visits and admissions: a systematic review
Levi Monteiro Martins, Elsa Coz, Delphine Maucort-Boulch & Mohand-Saïd Hacid
Review
Published: 05 June 2025
Digital mapping of soil erodibility factor in response to land use change using machine learning models
Wudu Abiye & Orhan Dengiz
Research
Published: 17 June 2025
Integrated effects of polyamide microplastics and common antimicrobials in reclaimed water on the growth of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) and soil bacterial communities
Raza Ullah, Kasie Raymann, Julia Farias, Martin Tsz Ki Tsui, Alex Chow, Clinton Williams & Ayalew Ligaba-Osena
Research
Published: 24 December 2025
Integrated hydrogeochemical and spatial assessment of groundwater quality using multivariate statistics and GIS: a case study from northeastern Iran
Maryam Tajbakhshian
Research
Published: 19 August 2025
Hydrodynamics shape riverine biofilms on microplastics: insights from an in-situ incubation study
Rizwan Khaleel, Markus Rolf, Julian Wagenhofer, Lisa-Marie Jaax, Yifan Lu & Hannes Laermanns
Research
Published: 27 October 2025
Study on the persistence of ciprofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole in simulated drinking water systems
Victoria Rilstone, Yes Filion & Pascale Champagne
Research
Published: 26 April 2025
Screening salt-tolerant bacteria for enhanced antibiotic degradation in mangrove ecosystems
Zhaohui Huang, Xingjuan Han, Gongdu Xu, Ruina Liu & Xudong Ye
Research
Published: 10 June 2025
Enhancing assimilated soil moisture prediction from environmental data using advanced machine learning
Sana Arshad, Amna Ashraf, Main Al-Dalahmeh, Endre Harsanyi & Safwan Mohammed
Research
Published: 24 December 2025
Interspecies electron transfer stimulating approaches in anaerobic digestion processes: recent advancements, challenges and future perspectives
Wondimu Elias Worajo, Fekadu Fanjana, Talat Selemon Thomas & Fakana
Review
Published: 30 December 2025
A high throughput ambient mass spectrometric approach for identifying the poaching of wild American ginseng
Julia E. Shaw, Pamela Brunswick, Jolene Lesuk, Lola Rabinovitch-Taylor, Tyler Filewood & Honoria Kwok
Research
Published: 20 December 2025
Formation and characterization of water-in-oil emulsions: insights from simulated mesoscale oil spill tests
Qin Xin, Christine Ridenour & Hena Farooqi
Research
Published: 07 December 2025
Assessing the link between changes in landscape and desertification in the Chambal River Basin using machine learning and remote sensing
Amit Daiman, Sajid Pareeth & Biswa Bhattacharya
Research
Published: 29 November 2025
Role of blanket bog condition in stream dissolved organic carbon export
Muhammad Jehanzaib, Raymond Flynn, Vicky Preece, Hannah Lehnhart-Barnett & Devin F. Smith
Research
Published: 27 January 2026