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Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

Impact factor: 3.4*

Time to first decision (all decisions): 21.0 days**

Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 33.0 days***

CiteScore: 6.6****

Editor-in-Chief: Dionisios Vlachos

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Journal scope

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is an interdisciplinary journal reporting cutting-edge research focused on enhancing the understanding and efficiency of reactions.

Reaction engineering leverages the interface where fundamental molecular chemistry meets chemical engineering and technology. Challenges in chemistry can be overcome by the application of new technologies, while engineers may find improved solutions for process development from the latest developments in reaction chemistry.

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a unique forum for researchers whose interests span the broad areas of chemical engineering and chemical sciences to come together in solving problems of importance to wider society.

All papers should be written to be approachable by readers across the engineering and chemical sciences. Papers that consider multiple scales, from the laboratory up to and including plant scale, are particularly encouraged.

Key topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Reaction engineering approaches or technologies

Reaction development & optimisation (including catalysis and catalyst design, mechanistic and kinetic studies, analysis and monitoring, mechanism and kinetics, screening, intensification and scale-up)
Synthesis technologies (including electrochemistry, photochemistry and mechanochemistry)
Reaction & process engineering (including continuous processes, reactor design, integrated reactors, microfluidics and new reactor concepts)
Flow chemistry (including organic, inorganic, enzymatic, analytical and process chemistry)
Digitalisation of chemistry and biochemistry (including analysis and monitoring, automation, visualisation, machine learning, algorithms, high-throughput discovery and cyber-physical systems)
Biochemical engineering (including biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, bioprocessing and chemical biology)
Materials synthesis & processing (including nanomaterials, nanoparticles, polymers, surfaces, interfaces and membranes)
Separations (including reactive extraction/distillation and membrane-based processes)

Biological, chemical, medical, environmental and energy applications

Pharmaceutical and speciality chemical development (including target identification and screening, synthetic route development and process design, intensification and scale-up)
Sustainable chemistry (including platform chemicals from bioresources and waste, alternative solvents, circular economy and efficient processes)
Environment & climate (including clean water, carbon capture, reactive and membrane separations, solar fuels and pollution abatement)

Why publish in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering?

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Meet the team

Find out who is on the editorial and advisory boards for the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.

Editor-in-Chief

Dionisios Vlachos, University of Delaware, USA

Associate editors

Ian R. Baxendale, Durham University, UK

Richard A. Bourne, University of Leeds, UK

Raj Gounder, Purdue University, USA

Saif A. Khan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Francesca Paradisi, University of Bern, Switzerland

Haihui Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Editorial board members

Shane Grosser, Merck, USA

Petra de Jongh, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Heather J. Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Anita Maguire, University College Cork, Ireland

Megan Smyth, Almac 新月直播app下载s, UK

Malcolm Berry, MB Chemistry Consulting Ltd, UK

Claude de Bellefon, University of Lyon, France

Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute CA, USA

Wayne Blaylock, Dow Chemical Company, USA

Cara Brocklehurst, Novartis AG, Switzerland

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

Cathy Chin, University of Toronto, Canada

Evelina Colacino, University of Montpellier, France

Avelino Corma, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain

Anna Croft, Loughborough University, UK

Paul Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota, USA

Stevan Djuric, High Point University, USA

Raju Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Dorota Gryko, Polish Academy of 新月直播app下载s, Poland

Ryan Hartman, New York University, USA

Joel Hawkins, Pfizer, USA

Ive Hermans, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Volker Hessel, University of Adelaide, Australia

Lin Huang, Trunk & Petal Pte Ltd., Singapore

Klavs Jensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Marty Johnson, Eli Lilly, USA

Niket Kaisare, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

C Oliver Kappe, University of Graz, Austria

Alexander Katz, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Francesca Kerton, Memorial University, Canada

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

Alexei Lapkin, University of Cambridge, UK

Hélène Lebel, University of Montreal, Canada

Angeliki Lemonidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Guangsheng Luo, Tsinghua University, China

Haresh Manyar, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Rebecca Meadows, AstraZeneca plc, UK

Massimo Morbidelli, Milano Politecnico, Italy

Timothy Noël, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Matthew O'Brien, Keele University, UK

Tatsuya Okubo, University of Tokyo, Japan

Polona 沤nidarši膷 Plazl, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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, Lancaster University, UK

Susannah L. Scott, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Doris Segets, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Manish Sharma, BASF, USA

Jay Siegel, Tianjin University, China

Ning Sun, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Annette Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

Laura Torrente Murciano, University of Cambridge, UK

Enrico Tronconi, University of Milan, Italy

Veronique Van Speybroeck, Ghent University, Belgium

Siegfried Waldvogel, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Robin White, Luxembourg Institute for 新月直播app下载 & Technology, Luxembourg

Karen Wilson, RMIT University, Australia

Sheryl L. Wiskur, University of South Carolina, USA

Wen-De Xiao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Zhen Yao, Zhejiang University, China

Carmine D'Agostino, University of Manchester, UK

Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID

Kay Burrows, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID

Emily Skinner, Editorial Manager, Journals

Sean Browner, Assistant Editor, Journals

Molly Colgate, Assistant Editor, Journals

Paul Scott, Assistant Editor, Journals

Alison Winder, Assistant Editor, Journals

Basita Javeed, Editorial Assistant, Journals

Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals

Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID

Article types

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering publishes the following article types.

Communications
Full papers
Reviews
Minireviews
Perspectives
Comments
Tutorial account

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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 新月直播app下载 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 not contain any unpublished research and 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. Perspectives should not contain any unpublished research.

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.

Tutorial Account

Tutorial Accounts introduce readers to a technique, concept or methodology at the interface of chemistry and chemical engineering. They are didactic articles, intended to lower the barrier to entry for interdisciplinary research, and do not contain any original or unpublished research and are not intended to review the relevant literature. Authors should contact the Editorial Office in the first instance to discuss the topic before submitting.

Tutorial accounts may be of importance to a wide range of researchers, or of critical importance to a narrow range of researchers. There are no strict length requirements. Tutorial Accounts may cite examples from literature to illustrate key points but it should be possible for a specialist reader to gain a basic, workable understanding of the topic from the article without requiring further reading.Some comparison of alternative approaches may be appropriate, and authors can provide the reader with directions for further reading.

Journal guidelines

There are no specific requirements regarding formatting of submissions; we recommend using the 新月直播app下载 template but this is not a requirement for submission. All articles accepted for publication in our journals are edited and typeset to our house style by professional editors; we will format the final publication for you.

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.

Open access publishing options

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a hybrid (transformative) journal and gives authors the choice of publishing their research either via the traditional subscription-based model or instead by choosing our gold open access option. Find out more about our Transformative Journals. which are Plan S compliant.

Gold open access

For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering charges an article processing charge (APC) of £2,750 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.

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Read & Publish

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Use our to check if your institution has an open access agreement with us.

Please use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript and check you are assigned as the corresponding author; this helps us to identify if you are eligible for Read & Publish or other APC discounts.

Traditional subscription model

Authors can also publish in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering via the traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Our standard licence allows you to make the accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as the green route to open access.

Learn more about green open access.

Themed Collections

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering publishes a number of themed collections on timely and important topics, guest edited by members of the journal community. Members of the community are welcome to submit proposals for themed collections that would be of interest to the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering readership. Please use the form below to submit a proposal. All proposals will be considered by the Editorial Board and assessed based on the timeliness and relevance of the topic.

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