Reaction Chemistry & Engineering

Impact factor: 4.641*
Publishing frequency: 12 issues per year

Immediacy Index: 0.868
Chair: Klavs F Jensen

Scope

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a new journal reporting cutting edge research into all aspects of making molecules for the benefit of fundamental research, applied processes and wider society.

From fundamental, molecular-level chemistry to large scale chemical production, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering brings together communities of chemists and chemical engineers working to ensure the crucial role of reaction chemistry in today’s world.

The journal’s focused mission encompasses a broad range of topic areas, including experimental, theoretical and modelling aspects in the following.

Development of new reactions and methodologies
Reaction screening and optimization
Reaction pathways and design
Reaction mechanism and kinetics
Reaction analysis and monitoring
Catalysis and catalytic reaction engineering

Heterogeneous
Homogeneous
Biocatalysis

Electrochemical synthesis and electrocatalysis
Multiphase and reacting flows
Emerging reactor technologies
Sustainable reaction engineering
Catalyst design through structure-function investigation
Reactive separations

Papers that consider multiple scales are particularly encouraged.

Why publish in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering?

By publishing in the journal, you will receive international exposure of your work to chemical scientists and chemical and process engineers from across academia and industry, as well as the other benefits that are part of publishing in Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

Fast times to publication
Efficient, fair and transparent peer review
A dedicated editorial service
Hot article promotion
Free colour, PDF reprints and electronic supplementary information (ESI)
Open access options

Chair

Klavs F Jensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Scientific editors

Ian R Baxendale, Durham University, UK

Saif A Khan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Editorial board members

Donna G Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, USA

Joel M Hawkins, Pfizer Worldwide R&D, USA

Volker Hessel, University of Adelaide, Australia

Steven V Ley, University of Cambridge, UK

Guangsheng Luo, Tsinghua University, China

Anita Maguire, University College Cork, Ireland

Dionisios G Vlachos, University of Delaware, USA

Neil Hammond, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0001-6390-8874

Laura Fisher, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-8761-0383

Hugh Cowley, Development Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-4021-0518

Lucy Argyle, Editorial Production Manager, Journals

Jack Busby, Senior Publishing Editor, Journals

Eloise Laity, Publishing Editor, Journals

Carole Martin, Publishing Editor, Journals

Millie Newman, Publishing Editor, Journals

Eve Rooks, Publishing Editor, Journals

Oliver Hill, Editorial Assistant, Journals

Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals

Malcolm Berry, GlaxoSmithKline, UK

Claude de Bellefon, University of Lyon, France

Wayne Blaylock, Dow Chemical Company, USA

Richard Bourne, University of Leeds, UK

Jian-Feng Chen, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Avelino Corma, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain

Paul Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota, USA

Stevan Djuric, High Point University, USA

Raj Gounder, Purdue University, USA

Ryan Hartman, New York University, USA

Ive Hermans, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Lin Huang, A*STAR, Singapore

Marty Johnson, Eli Lilly, USA

C Oliver Kappe, University of Graz, Austria

Alexander Katz, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Beata Kilos-Réaume, Dow Chemical Company, USA

Dong Pyo Kim, POSTECH, Republic of Korea

Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Amol Kulkarni, National Chemical Research Laboratory, India

Alexi Lapkin, University of Cambridge, UK

Angeliki Lemonidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Massimo Morbidelli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Timothy Noël, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Matthew O'Brien, Keele Univeristy, UK

Tatsuya Okubo, University of Tokyo, Japan

Anastasios Polyzos, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, USA

Rebecca Ruck, Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA

Andrew Rutter GlaxoSmithKline, UK

Basu Saha, London South Bank University, UK

Manish Sharma, BASF, USA

Jay Siegel, Tianjin University, China

Enrico Tronconi, University of Milan, Italy

Siegfried Waldvogel, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Robin White, TNO, Netherlands

Sheryl L. Wiskur, University of South Carolina, USA

Wen-De Xiao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Jun-ichi Yoshida, Kyoto University, Japan

Article types

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering publishes the following article types.

Communications
Full papers
Reviews
Minireviews
Perspectives
Comments

See more information about these article types

Communications

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Communications contain novel scientific work of such importance that rapid publication is desirable. Authors should briefly indicate in a covering letter the reasons why they feel that publication of their work as a Communication is justified.

Full papers

Full papers in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering contain original scientific work that has not been published previously. Please note that the Royal Society of Chemistry strongly discourages the fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short publications. There is no page limit for full paper articles.

Reviews

The purpose of a Review is to bring the reader up-to-date with research in a particular area. The article should aim to provide an authoritative, in-depth discussion of current progress. Authors are encouraged to identify areas in the field where further developments are imminent or of urgent need. Please note that Reviews in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering should not contain any original research.

Minireviews

Minireviews are highlights or summaries of research in an emerging area (typically from the last two-three years). Minireviews are not intended to be comprehensive overviews, rather they are meant to highlight recent and important developments in that specific area.

Minireviews should set the topic in the context of the relevant literature. A small amount of speculation of possible future developments may also be appropriate in the Conclusions section.

Perspectives

Perspectives are invited contributions offering the personal viewpoint of leading scientists in their area of research. They present a state-of-the-art account of an area of current interest with an emphasis on future challenges and opportunities. Since the readership of Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is wide-ranging, the article should be easily comprehensible to a non-specialist in the field, whilst at the same time providing an authoritative discussion of the area concerned. There are no strict length requirements, but as a general guide Perspectives should be typically between 6 - 20 pages in length.

Comments and Replies

Comments and Replies are a medium for the discussion and exchange of scientific opinions between authors and readers concerning material published in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.

For publication, a Comment should present an alternative analysis of and/or new insight into the previously published material. Any Reply should further the discussion presented in the original article and the Comment. Comments and Replies that contain any form of personal attack are not suitable for publication.

Comments that are acceptable for publication will be forwarded to the authors of the work being discussed, and these authors will be given the opportunity to submit a Reply. The Comment and Reply will both be subject to rigorous peer review in consultation with the journal’s Editorial Board where appropriate. The Comment and Reply will be published together.

Journal guidelines

For guidance on preparing your article please visit our Prepare your article page, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals. Note that some journals have additional specific guidelines.

Subscription information

Online only 2018: ISSN 2058-9883, £1,847 / $3,047

*2017 Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate Analytics, June 2018)