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Publishing frequency: 24 issues per year
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Chair: Philip Jessop
Scope
Green Chemistry provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the development of alternative green and sustainable technologies.
The scope of Green Chemistry is based on, but not limited to, the definition proposed by Anastas and Warner (Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, P T Anastas and J C Warner, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998). Green chemistry is the utilisation of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products.
Green Chemistry is at the frontiers of this continuously-evolving interdisciplinary science and publishes research that attempts to reduce the environmental impact of the chemical enterprise by developing a technology base that is inherently non-toxic to living things and the environment. Submissions on all aspects of research relating to the endeavour are welcome.
The journal publishes original and significant cutting-edge research that is likely to be of wide general appeal. To be published, work must present a significant advance in green chemistry. Papers must contain a comparison with existing methods and demonstrate advantages over those methods before publication can be considered.
Coverage includes the following, but is not limited to:
- Design (e.g. biomimicry, design for degradation/recycling/reduced toxicity…)
- Reagents & Feedstocks (e.g. renewables, CO2, solvents, auxiliary agents, waste utilization…)
- Synthesis (e.g. organic, inorganic, catalysis, synthetic biology…)
- Process (e.g. process design, intensification, separations, recycling, efficiency…)
- Energy (e.g. renewable energy, fuels, photovoltaics, fuel cells, energy storage, energy carriers…)
- Applications (e.g. electronics, dyes, consumer products, coatings, pharmaceuticals, preservatives, building materials, chemicals for industry/agriculture/mining…)
- Impact (e.g. safety, metrics, LCA, sustainability, (eco)toxicology…)
Green chemistry is, by definition, a continuously-evolving frontier. Therefore, the inclusion of a particular material or technology does not, of itself, guarantee that a paper is suitable for the journal. To be suitable, the novel advance should have the potential for reduced environmental impact relative to the state of the art. Green Chemistry does not normally deal with research associated with 'end-of-pipe' or remediation issues.
Occasionally the Editors may decide to publish something outside the defined scope of the journal if the work would be of interest to the green chemistry community and/or have the potential to shape the field.
Chair
Philip Jessop, Queen's University, Canada
Associate editors
Buxing Han, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli, CNRS and ESCPE Lyon, France
Editorial board members
Francois Jérôme, University of Poitiers, France
Helen Sneddon, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
Keiichi Tomishige, Tohoku University, Japan
Rajender Varma, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Tao Zhang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Paul Anastas, Yale University, USA
Isabel Arends, TU Delft, Netherlands
Asim Bhaumik, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Fabrizio Cavani, University of Bologna, Italy
Yonas Chebude, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
James Clark, University of York, UK
Avelino Corma, UPV-CSIC, Spain
Robert H Crabtree, Yale University, USA
Pierre Dixneuf, University of Rennes, France
James Dumesic, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Peter Dunn, Pfizer (retired), UK
Karen Goldberg, University of Washington, USA
Mark Harmer, SAC Technologies, USA
Milton Hearn, Monash University, Australia
Istvan Horvath, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Andrew J. Hunt, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University, UK
C Oliver Kappe, University of Graz, Austria
Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo,Japan
Mihkel Koel, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Burkhard Koenig, University of Regensburg, Germany
Michael Kopach, Lilly, USA
Dhileep Krishnamurthy, Zhejiang NHU, China
Walter Leitner, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Chao-Jun Li, McGill University, Canada
Rafael Luque, University of Cordoba, Spain
Doug MacFarlane, Monash University, Australia
Regina Palkovits, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Alvise Perosa, Universita Ca Foscari, Italy
Martina Peters, Bayer AG, Germany
Martyn Poliakoff, University of Nottingham, UK
Colin Raston, Flinders University, Australia
Robin D Rogers, McGill University, Canada
Gadi Rothenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Janet Scott, University of Bath, UK
Roger Sheldon, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Christian Stevens, Ghent University, Belgium
Natalia Tarasova, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Russia
Peter Wasserscheid, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Tom Welton, Imperial College, UK
G D Yadav, Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai, India
Suojiang Zhang, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Julie Beth Zimmerman, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA
Vânia Zuin, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Anna Simpson, Executive Editor
Rebecca Brodie, Deputy Editor
Alexandra Klein, Development Editor
Gisela Scott, Editorial Production Manager, ORCID 0000-0002-2552-982X
Chris Goodall, Senior Publishing Editor
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
Ellis Crawford, Publishing Editor
Peter DaBell, Publishing Editor
Colin King, Publishing Editor
Emma Lockyer, Publishing Editor
Isobel Tibbetts, Publishing Editor
Jack Washington, Publishing Editor
Alexander Whiteside, Publishing Editor
Daphne Houston, Editorial Assistant
Jane Paterson, Publishing Assistant
Readership information
The journal appeals to a broad international readership spanning many communities, including all academic and industrial scientists interested in the development of alternative sustainable technologies.
Subscription information
Green Chemistry is part of the collection RSC Gold.
Online only 2021: ISSN 1463-9270, £2,252 / $3,969
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2020
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