The Journal of Contaminant Hydrology is an international journal publishing scientific articles pertaining to the contamination of subsurface water resources. Emphasis is placed on investigations of the physical, chemical, and biological processes influencing the behavior and fate of organic and inorganic contaminants in the unsaturated (vadose) and saturated (groundwater) zones, as well as at groundwater-surface water interfaces. The ecological impacts of contaminants transported both from and to aquifers are of interest. Articles on contamination of surface water only, without a link to groundwater, are out of the scope. Broad latitude is allowed in identifying contaminants of interest, and include legacy and emerging pollutants, nutrients, nanoparticles, pathogenic microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, viruses, protozoa), microplastics, and various constituents associated with energy production (e.g., methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide).The journal's scope embraces a wide range of topics including: experimental investigations of contaminant sorption, diffusion, transformation, volatilization and transport in the surface and subsurface; characterization of soil and aquifer properties only as they influence contaminant behavior; development and testing of mathematical models of contaminant behaviour; innovative techniques for restoration of contaminated sites; development of new tools or techniques for monitoring the extent of soil and groundwater contamination; transformation of contaminants in the hyporheic zone; effects of contaminants traversing the hyporheic zone on surface water and groundwater ecosystems; subsurface carbon sequestration and/or turnover; and migration of fluids associated with energy production into groundwater.

《污染物水文學雜志》是一份國際期刊，發表有關地下水資源污染的科學論文。重點是研究物理、化學和生物過程對不飽和(vadose)和飽和(地下水)帶以及地下水-地表水界面中有機和無機污染物的行為和命運的影響。污染物從含水層和向含水層運輸的生態影響是令人感興趣的。只涉及地表水污染的文章，不涉及地下水的，不在范圍之內。在確定感興趣的污染物時，允許有廣泛的范圍，包括遺留污染物和新出現的污染物、營養物質、納米顆粒、致病微生物(如細菌、病毒、原生動物)、微塑料以及與能源生產有關的各種成分(如甲烷、二氧化碳、硫化氫)。該雜志的范圍包括廣泛的主題包括:實驗研究污染物吸附，擴散，轉化，揮發和運輸在表面和地下;只有在土壤和含水層性質影響污染物行為時才對它們進行表征;污染物行為數學模型的開發與測試恢復受污染場址的創新技術;開發監測土壤和地下水污染程度的新工具或新技術;低滲區污染物的轉化污染物通過低滲帶對地表水和地下水生態系統的影響;地下固碳和/或周轉量;以及與能源生產相關的流體向地下水的遷移。