image: The new journals' launch issues are scheduled for Q2 2025
Credit: European Society of Endocrinology
The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) is delighted to announce the launch of two new multidisciplinary, open-access journals, Environmental Endocrinology and Obesity and Endocrinology. The Journals will be published by Oxford University Press, with the launch issues scheduled for Q2 2025. Submissions are now being welcomed via the Journals' websites.
Environmental Endocrinology will publish high-quality clinical, translational, and basic research on all aspects of environmental impacts on hormone systems in humans and living systems, incorporating the One Health perspective. The Journal will welcome submissions from a broad range of research disciplines: including epidemiology, climate research, toxicological sciences, endocrinology and developmental biology.
Obesity and Endocrinology is dedicated to advancing and understanding obesity through comprehensive coverage of basic, translational and clinical aspects of endocrinology, both in respect to the complexity of obesity as an endocrine disease, and its biology, diagnostics, treatment and relationship with other endocrine and metabolic diseases. The Journal will also incorporate the interplay between the microbiome and the exposome as well as the sociological, political and global implications of this complex area.
Jérôme Bertherat, ESE President, said: “We are delighted to expand the Society’s journal portfolio with the launch of Environmental Endocrinology and Obesity and Endocrinology. The global rise in obesity and diabetes, and the prevalence and use in industry of potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals mean there is a need for high-quality research in these topical fields, and we expect the Journals to serve as timely and valuable resources for the scientific community, practitioners, policy makers and the general public.”
Philippe Chanson, Chair, ESE Publishing and Communications Committee, said: “We are excited to expand our journal portfolio in collaboration with Oxford University Press, who has proven to be an excellent partner since moving our flagship publication, the European Journal of Endocrinology, to its stable in early 2023. Furthermore, we are delighted to have secured two brilliant and passionate Editors-in-Chief in Professor Josef Köhrle at Environmental Endocrinology and Professor Melania Manco at Obesity and Endocrinology and look forward to working with them and their editorial boards in establishing each publication as the leader in its field.”
Environmental Endocrinology Editor-in-Chief Josef Köhrle is a Senior Professor, Molecular Endocrinology at the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and endocrinology from University of Hanover, Germany; and was awarded Habilitation for Experimental Endocrinology, Medizinische Hochschule in Hanover. He has served at leading endocrinology publications for many years and currently co-leads ESE’s Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals Working Group and is co-chair of ESE’s Focus Area in Environmental Endocrinology.
Obesity and Endocrinology Editor-in-Chief Melania Manco is a clinical research scientist and consultant endocrinologist at the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in nutrition and metabolism, and in 2020 was awarded National Habilitation as a Full Professor of Endocrinology. She is co-chair of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) Collaborating Centres for Obesity Management (COMs) Working Group.
Helen Gregson, ESE Chief Executive Officer, commented: “It is a truly exciting to time to be expanding our journal portfolio into these key areas of strategic importance for endocrinology, and public health as a whole. Obesity and Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) were two of the key pillars identified in our 2021 Whitepaper, ‘Hormones in European Health Policies’, and therefore the launch of these Journals is a natural step for ESE as the voice for endocrinology in Europe. We are delighted to have appointed leading experts in Josef and Melania as our first Editors-in-Chief for the new Journals, and we are looking forward to seeing how the publications develop!”
The two new journals will be part of the ESE family of journals, headed by the flagship European Journal of Endocrinology, also published by Oxford University Press. The new Journals have a strong, modern visual identity, which will also be adopted by the flagship journal European Journal of Endocrinology from January 2025.
Deborah Dixon, Publishing Director, Oxford University Press, said: “We are delighted to launch two new multidisciplinary open-access journals, Obesity and Endocrinology and Environmental Endocrinology, in partnership with the ESE and to supporting high quality research in these important aspects of endocrinology.”
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