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Publishing frequency: 24 issues per year
Editor-in-chief: Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Scope
Catalysis Science & Technology is a leading international journal for the publication of the highest impact articles reporting cutting-edge developments across the catalysis science community. The journal places equal focus on publications from the heterogeneous, homogeneous, organocatalysis and biocatalysis communities, containing a balanced mix of fundamental, technology-oriented, experimental and computational original research and reviews, thus appealing to both academic and industrial scientists.
Original research articles published in the journal must show new catalytic discoveries that are a significant advance on previously published work, bringing conceptual advances, or molecular insights to catalytic processes, and where appropriate, demonstrate the relationship between synthesis, structure and performance of catalytic systems. Kinetics and mechanisms are a central part of catalysis science and should be included in submitted articles.
Examples of topics within the journal’s scope and the expected significance are:
- In-depth mechanistic insights through advanced methods and theoretical methods that are of significant and direct interest and impact in the science and application of catalysts and catalytic processes. Studies using concepts are preferred to trial and error optimisation
- New catalysts and/or processes for conversions of current and future interest within life sciences, pharmaceuticals, polymers, environmental protection, energy and fuels. Studies that report incremental improvement of catalytic performance will not be published in the journal
- New catalytic reactions with significant impact in addressing current challenges and societal demands, for example waste reduction, reduced energy use or efficient use of feedstocks
- Studies that relate chemical reactions at surfaces, reactivity of metal complexes, or macromolecular structure to catalytic function and processes. Studies emphasising sophisticated materials and properties with residual evidence of catalytic function will not be published in the journal
- Theoretical studies of materials and molecules (exhibiting catalytic turnover) that result in significantly greater performance or understanding of existing catalytic reactions
- Studies on multiscale modelling, for example, engineering of catalytic processes from the nano to the macroscale
- Synthesis strategies for inorganic materials, hybrid materials and macromolecules that can be used as catalysts or their supports. Studies that claim catalyst performance must support this with kinetic data and proper mass balances
These criteria will be used by our associate editors and reviewers to assess the significance of each submitted manuscript.
Editor-in-Chief
Javier Pérez-Ramírez, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Associate editors
Dirk De Vos, KU Leuven, Belgium
Bin Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Núria López, Institut Catala d'Investigació Quimica, Spain
Will Medlin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Regina Palkovits, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Xiulian Pan, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Kenichi Shimizu, Hokkaido University, Japan
Andrew Weller, University of York, UK
Chris Williams, University of South Carolina, USA
Jinhua Ye, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Isabel Arends, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Xinhe Bao, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Bhalchandra Bhanage, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India
George Britovsek, Imperial College London, UK
Christian Bruneau, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Renne, France
Yong Cao, Fudan University, China
Matt Clarke, University of St Andrews, UK
Christophe Coperet, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Avelino Corma, Valencia University, Spain
Johannes de Vries, LIKAT Rostock, Germany
Chris Hardacre, University of Manchester, UK
Graham Hutchings, University of Cardiff, UK
David Jackson, University of Glasgow, UK
Axel Knop-Gericke, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wei-Xue Li, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Antoni Llobet, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
Jennifer Love, University of Calgary, Canada
Ding Ma, Peking University, China
Noritaka Mizuno, University of Tokyo, Japan
Evgeny Pidko, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Robert M Rioux, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Tito Scaiano, University of Ottawa, Canada
Tetsuya Shishido, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Tsunehiro Tanaka, University of Kyoto, Japan
Nick Turner, University of Manchester, UK
Piet van Leeuwen, University of Toulouse, France
Ning Yan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-7935-6231
Bianca Provost, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0001-8440-1095
Hugh Cowley, Development Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-4021-0518
Emily Skinner, Editorial Production Manager, Journals
Daniella Ferluccio, Publishing Editor, Journals
Fiona Iddon, Publishing Editor, Journals
Sophie Redman, Editorial Assistant, Journals
Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals
Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-9369-8414
Readership info
Academic and industrial chemists of all disciplines using heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis: organic, organometallic, inorganic and bio(in)organic chemists; biochemists; physical and theoretical chemists; materials, polymer, surface, and environmental scientists.
Subscription information
Catalysis Science & Technology is part of the collection RSC Gold.
Online only 2021: ISSN 2044-4761, £2,229 / $3,681
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2020
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