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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
Open access publishing options available
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?
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 Supplementary Information (SI)
- Open access options
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
Megan Smyth, Almac Sciences, 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 Sciences, 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
Anita Maguire, University College Cork, Ireland
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 Žnidaršič 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 Science & 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 0000-0002-7935-6231
Kay Burrows, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-5485-6256
Emily Skinner, Editorial Manager, Journals
Molly Colgate, Assistant Editor, Journals
Katie Morton, Assistant Editor, Journals
Charu Storr-Vijay, 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
Journal guidelines
There are no specific requirements regarding formatting of submissions; we recommend using the Royal Society of Chemistry 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.
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 £3,000 (+ 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.
Learn more about publishing open access.
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 Reaction Chemistry & Engineering may already be covered.
Use our journal finder 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.
Subscription information
Online only 2025: ISSN 2058-9883, £2,945 / $4,856
*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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