About RSC Advances

Scope 
RSC Advances is an international, peer-reviewed, online journal covering all of the chemical sciences, including multidisciplinary and emerging areas. Main research areas include (but are not limited to):

The criteria for publication are that the work must be high quality and well conducted. Articles submitted to the journal will be evaluated by international referees for the overall quality and accuracy of the science presented. 

Why Publish with RSC Advances? 
RSC journals are renowned for their high quality, rapid publication and innovative technology. All articles published in RSC Advances will benefit from wide exposure, with the Journal indexed in all major databases including ISI and Scopus.

RSC Advances authors will benefit from: 

• Rapid publication times
• Open-access options 
• Simple and effective online submission process
• Free electronic reprints (pdf) of own paper
• Free use of colour
• No page charges
• No page limits                   

In addition, all articles published in RSC Advances will be discovered within and/or between disciplines through our innovative and sophisticated behind-the-scenes topic modelling. Content will be automatically classified into one or more of the twelve main subject categories on the RSC Advances website giving maximum visibility to your work.

Article Types 
RSC Advances publishes communications, papers and reviews. 

Readership 
Academic, government and industrial scientists from all disciplines- specialised or interdisciplinary including: organic, medicinal, inorganic, organometallic, physical and biochemists, biologists, physicists, engineers, theoretical chemists; analytical, materials, polymer, surface, sustainable energy and environmental scientists. 

RSC Advances readers benefit from:

• Enhanced browsing and searching functionality online
• Free access to all RSC Advances articles published in volumes 1 and 2
• Free e-mail alerting and RSS news feeds service