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Catalysis Science & Technology is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant
Impact factor: 4.4*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 13.0 days**
Open access publishing options available
Time to first decision (peer-reviewed only): 31.0 days***
CiteScore: 8.7****
Editor-in-Chief: Bert Weckhuysen
Journal scope
Catalysis Science & Technology is committed to publishing research reporting high-quality, cutting-edge developments across the catalysis community at large. The journal places equal focus on publications from the heterogeneous, homogeneous, thermo-, electro-, photo-, organo- and biocatalysis communities. Works published in the journal feature a balanced mix of fundamental, technology-oriented, experimental, computational, digital and data-driven original research, thus appealing to catalysis practitioners in both academic and industrial environments.
Original research articles published in the journal must demonstrate new catalytic discoveries and/or methodological advances that represent a significant advance on previously published work, from the molecular to the process scales. We welcome rigorous research in a wide range of timely or emerging applications related to the environment, health, energy and materials.
Catalysis Science & Technology publishes Communications, Articles, Reviews and Perspectives. More details regarding manuscript types may be found in the Information for Authors section.
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Meet the team
Find out who is on the editorial and advisory boards for the Catalysis Science & Technology journal.
Editor-in-Chief
Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Associate editors
Shaojun Guo, Peking University, China
Mélanie Hall, University of Graz, Austria
Bin Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Núria López, Institut Catala d'Investigació Quimica, Spain
Will Medlin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Xiulian Pan, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Javier Ruiz-Martínez, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Kenichi Shimizu, Hokkaido University, Japan
Andrew Weller, University of York, UK
Chris Williams, University of South Carolina, USA
Yong Zhou, Nanjing University, China
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
Axel Knop-Gericke, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Antoni Llobet, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
Jennifer Love, University of Calgary, Canada
Ding Ma, Peking University, China
Debabrata Maiti, IIT Bombay, India
Noritaka Mizuno, University of Tokyo, Japan
Regina Palkovits, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Francesca Paradisi, University of Bern, Switzerland
Evgeny Pidko, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Javier Pérez-Ramírez, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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
Jinhua Ye, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-7935-6231
Kay Burrows, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-5485-6256
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 0000-0002-9369-8414
Open access publishing options
Catalysis Science & Technology 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.
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Catalysis Science & Technology 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
If your institution has a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry, APCs for gold open access publishing in Catalysis Science & Technology may already be covered.
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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 Catalysis Science & Technology 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.
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 RSC Gold subscription package.
Online only 2025: ISSN 2044-4761, £2,747 / $4,536
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**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
****CiteScore™ 2023 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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