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Time to first decision (all decisions): 5 days**
Time to first decision (peer-reviewed only): 24 days***
Editor-in-Chief: Shizhang Qiao
Gold open access, APCs waived until mid-2025
Publication frequency: every two months
Indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open to everyone. Impactful for all.
How do we discover new energy solutions?
Research into catalysis could hold the answer to this question. The RSC’s Science Horizons report reveals how catalysis will be crucial to finding solutions to global challenges in the next 10-15 years.
The purpose of our journal is to capture and gather pivotal research in this subject area and inspire change around the world.
EES Catalysis publishes high quality research on energy and environmental catalysis. It delivers the same impact and influence that researchers associate with our Energy & Environmental Science brand. And as a multidisciplinary platform, it covers catalysis in all subject areas like chemistry, materials science and engineering. At its core, EES Catalysis aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 – to ensure access to affordable, reliable and modern energy for all.
Hear from our Editor-in-Chief
As a gold open access journal, EES Catalysis aims to publish high quality, transformative and interdisciplinary research on energy and environmental catalysis. I am excited to be Editor-in-Chief of this journal, and I’m keen to help create real-world innovation in the catalysis field.
Scope
EES Catalysis is a premier journal, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical catalysis research for energy and environmental applications. Delivering the same impact and influence which researchers associate with the Energy & Environmental Science brand, EES Catalysis is transdisciplinary, publishing globally impactful energy and environmental catalysis across all scientific disciplines including chemistry, materials science and engineering.
Exceptional research using any type of catalysis is welcome. This includes heterogeneous, homogeneous, molecular and biocatalysis phase-based investigations, and encompasses the fields of thermo-, electro-, and photocatalysis for the production of clean energy, fuels and chemicals, modification/repairing of environment, and improved planetary health.
Both fundamental and applied catalysis research, as well as reports, focused on new reactions, new methodologies, new approaches, and new mechanisms that are of significant general interest to the community, are all welcome.
Featured articles
Local hydrophobicity allows high-performance electrochemical carbon monoxide reduction to C2+ products
While CO can already be produced at industrially relevant current densities via CO2 electrolysis, the selective formation of C2+ products seems challenging. CO electrolysis, in principle, can overcome this barrier, hence forming valuable chemicals from CO2 in two steps.
Zr-doped BaTaO2N photocatalyst modified with Na–Pt cocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution and Z-scheme water splitting
BaTaO2N exhibits hydrogen evolution activity under visible light with wavelengths up to 650 nm and is applicable to Z-scheme overall water splitting (ZOWS). However, the insufficient activity and selectivity of BaTaO2N in the presence of redox mediators limit the efficiency of this process.
A perspective of COx conversion to aromatics at ultra-low potential
The sustainable production of chemicals through COx hydrogenation is a growing area of interest, with thermal catalytic conversion showing the most promise. Selective hydrogenation to high carbon number products (C8+) remains a challenge, and this perspective focuses on recent advancements in heterogeneous catalytic COx hydrogenation to aromatics.
Catalytic hydrogen storage in liquid hydrogen carriersN photocatalyst modified with Na–Pt cocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution and Z-scheme water splitting
Hydrogen energy, often dubbed the “ultimate energy source”, boasts zero carbon emissions and no harmful by-products. Nevertheless, the storage and transportation of hydrogen remain significant hurdles for its commercialization and large-scale implementation.
Submissions
Submissions are initially assessed and taken through peer-review by our high-profile, internationally-recognised Associate Editors. The journal operates a single-anonymised peer review model, where reviewers are anonymous and author names and affiliations are known to reviewers, and all authors have the option to choose transparent peer review.
See who's on the team
Meet EES Catalysis' Editor-in-Chief and board members.
Editor-in-chief
University of Adelaide, Australia
Associate Editor
Heilongjiang University, China
Associate Editor
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Associate Editor
Cardiff University, UK
Associate Editor
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Joel W. Ager III, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jong-Beom Baek, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Korea
Alexis Bell, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Annemie Bogaerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Charles T. Campbell, University of Washington, USA
Sir Richard Catlow FRS, University College London, UK
Jingguang Chen, Columbia University, USA
Zhongwei Chen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ib Chorkendorff, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Charles Dismukes, Rutgers University, USA
Shaojun Guo, Peking University, China
Qian He, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Douglas Macfarlane, Monash University, Australia
Ki Tae Nam, Seoul National University, Korea
Ungyu Paik, Hanyang University, Korea
Menny Shalom, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Zhiyong Tang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology CAS, China
David Tilley, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Xin Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ye Wang, Xiamen University, China
Emma Eley, Executive Editor ORCID: 0000-0002-6379-8502
Jon Ferrier, Deputy Editor
Sarah Whitbread, Editorial Production Manager
Alex Holiday, Editorial Assistant
Jamie Purcell, Assistant Editor
Alexander John, Assistant Editor
Emily Ellison, Assistant Editor
Jack Pitchers, Assistant Editor
Clare Fitzgerald, Assistant Editor
Lee Colwill, Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond, Publisher, ORCID: 0000-0001-6390-8874
Peer review and editorial process
All articles published in EES Catalysis are subject to external peer review by experts in the field and all manuscripts submitted are handled by a team of internationally recognised Associate Editors, who are all practicing scientists in the field.
The peer review for all articles submitted to the journal consists of the following stages:
Phase 1: Your manuscript is initially assessed by an associate editor to determine its suitability for peer review
Phase 2: If the manuscript passes the initial assessment process, the associate editor solicits recommendations from at least two reviewers who are experts in the field. They will provide a report along with their recommendation.
Phase 3: The associate editor handling your manuscript makes a decision based on the reviewer reports received. In the event that no clear decision can be made, another reviewer will be consulted.
EES Catalysis is committed to a rigorous peer review process and expert editorial oversight for all published content. Please refer to our processes and policies for full details including our appeals procedure.
Publication frequency
Articles accepted for publication in EES Catalysis are published online with citeable DOIs as Advance Articles after they are edited and typeset. Articles are then assigned page numbers and published in an issue. Issues of EES Catalysis are published bi-monthly. Please find our most recent issue here.
Transparent peer review policy
To support increased transparency, we offer authors the option of transparent peer review, where the editor’s decision letter, reviewers’ comments and authors’ response for all versions of the manuscript will be published alongside the article under an Open Access Creative Commons licence (CC-BY). Reviewers are anonymous unless they choose to sign their report.
Find out more about our transparent peer review policy.
Ethical Requirements
EES Catalysis authors, editors, reviewers and published works are required to uphold the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ethical standards. The Royal Society of Chemistry is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and our ethical standards follow COPE’s core practices and best practice guidelines. In cases where these guidelines are breached or appear to be so, the Royal Society of Chemistry will consult with COPE guidelines and act accordingly.
When a study involves the use of live animals or human subjects, authors must include in the 'methods/experimental' section of the manuscript a statement that all experiments were performed in compliance with the author’s institute’s policy on animal use and ethics; where possible, details of compliance with national or international laws or guidelines should be included. The statement must name the institutional/local ethics committee which has approved the study; where possible, the approval or case number should be provided. A statement that informed consent was obtained for any experimentation with human subjects is required. Reviewers may be asked to comment specifically on any cases in which concerns arise.
For further guidance on author responsibilities and code of conduct, which apply to EES Catalysis and to all manuscripts submitted to Royal Society of Chemistry journals, please visit our author hub.
Themed Collections
EES Catalysis publishes a number of themed collections every year on timely and important topics, guest edited by members of the energy science community.
All submissions to our themed collections will undergo an initial assessment by the journal Editors and subsequent peer review as per the usual standards of RSC journals.
Open access
EES Catalysis is a gold open access journal. This means that the exceptional research you publish here can be easily accessed by people around the world. We’re also paying for all article processing charges (APCs) until mid-2025, so you can gain global recognition without costing you or your funding body. Ready to make a start?
We offer EES Catalysis authors a choice of two Creative Commons licences: CC BY or CC BY NC. Publication under these licences means that authors retain the copyright of their article, but users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Read our open access statement for further information.
All published articles are deposited with LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico and the British Library for archiving.
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Journal specific guidelines
The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.
Broader Context
All articles must include a separate paragraph (no more than 200 words) that puts the work into a broader context, highlighting the main advances and their impact on energy and environmental catalysis.
Characterisation of new catalysts
Where the screening of new catalysts is reported, authors should provide a mass balance for all reactions (using, for example, an internal standard in their analysis technique). Recycling efficiencies should be based on reaction rate measurements and not product yield as a function of a cycle. It is highly desirable to report the reaction rate for the catalysts as a turnover frequency or mass-specific activity or, for heterogeneous catalysts, as surface-specific activity.
Subscription information
EES Catalysis is fully gold open access – articles can be downloaded free from the website with no barriers to access. EES Catalysis publishes 6 issues per year.
Online only: ISSN 2753-801X
Copyright
Copyright is retained by authors when an open access licence is accepted, as with our standard licence to publish agreement. Full and accurate attribution to the original author is required for any re-use of the work. Find out more about copyright, licences and re-use permission.
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**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year