Environmental health prospects, which are widely considered the Premier Environmental Health Journal, has announced that it will stop accepting new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future.
For more than 50 years, the magazine has received funding from National Institutes of Health to review studies on the impact of environmental toxin health – from “Forever Chemicals” to air pollution – and publish the research free.
The authors have decided to stop accepting studies due to the “lack of confidence” that would contribute to critical costs such as copying and editorial software will be renewed after their upcoming expiration dates, said Joel Kaufman, the leading author.
He refused to comment on the future prospects of the publication.
“If the magazine is indeed lost, it is a huge loss,” said Jonathan Levy, President of the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Boston. “Reduces people’s ability to have good information that can be used to make good decisions.”
The editor of Nejm described the letter as “indefinitely threatening”. On Tuesday, Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said he had received such a letter.
Scientific journals have long been the target of leading health officials in Trump administration.
In a book published last year, Dr. Martin A. Makary, the new Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, accused the “Portal” editorial councils and publish only information that support a “group narrative”.
In an interview with Podcast “Dr. Hyman Show” last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now Minister of Health and Human Services, said he was planning to prosecute medical journals in accordance with federal anti -corruption laws.
“I will find a way to sue you if you do not end up in a plan right now to show how you start publishing the real science,” he said.
However, the announcement about EHP researchers, who pointed out that funding cuts appeared to conflict with the priorities of Trump’s administration.
For example, Mr Kennedy has repeatedly emphasized the importance of studying the role of the environment in causing chronic diseases. The new administration also expressed interest in the transparency and accessibility of the audience of scientific journals, an area in which EHP was trailblazer.
EHP was one of the first “open access” magazines, allowing anyone to read without subscription. And unlike many other open access magazines, which often charge thousands of dollars to publish their work, EHP’s federal support meant that scientists from smaller universities could publish without worrying about a remuneration.
“There are many layers of irony here,” Dr. Levy said.
EHP is not the only magazine caught in CrossFire of funding cuts at the Ministry of Health and Human Services.
A budget plan for the Department, acquired by the New York Times, proposes two magazines published by the Disease Control and Prevention Centers: emerging infectious diseases and prevention of time. Both are published free of charge to writers and readers and are one of the top magazines in their fields.
Andrew Nixon, a HHS spokesman, said that “no final decision has been made” for the upcoming budget.
Emerging infectious diseases, published monthly, provide cutting -edge references to threats of infectious diseases around the world.
It has helped to shape the readiness and respond to fireplaces, said Jason Kindrachuk, a Iologist at the University of Manitoba, who has published research on Marburg and MPox viruses in the magazine.
The news “is very disappointing,” he said.
