RSC Advances
At the heart of open access for the global chemistry community.
Editors-in-Chief: Russell Cox and Karen Faulds
Open Access: Gold
As the largest gold open access journal dedicated to the chemical sciences, we are here for everyone who wants to publish quality chemistry research and share it with the world. We are here for everyone who needs access to work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines. And as part of the Royal Society of Chemistry, we are at the heart of open, international research dissemination for the chemistry community. Great science matters. We make sure the world knows it.
ISSN: 2046-2069
Indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central
Journal Impact factor
4.6 (2024)
First decision time (all)
15 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
27 days
Scope
RSC Advances papers should provide an insight that advances the chemistry field. Papers that contain little or no chemistry and are not considered to be of interest or relevance to the chemistry community are not within the scope of the journal.
The criteria for publication are that the work must be high quality, well conducted and advance the development of the field. Articles submitted to the journal are evaluated by our international team of associate editors and reviewers for the overall quality and accuracy of the science presented.
Please ensure you have considered the following points before submitting your manuscript.
- Does the work present an advance over the existing literature?
- Have you provided sufficient evidence/data to support your conclusions?
- Have you provided adequate characterisation data for your materials/compounds? (Please check the supporting information section to ensure that the necessary requirements have been met and copies of relevant spectra have been provided where necessary)
- Are the results discussed in the context of the literature?
- Are the references relevant and do they appropriately reflect the existing literature?
A small number of topic areas have their own additional requirements:
Molecular docking studies should include some physical or experimental validation. Studies that screen a molecule against a set of receptors with no link to physical or experimental data are not suitable for publication.
Purely computational studies on the properties of materials not yet experimentally characterized should include a discussion of the reasons why these materials are potentially interesting for the chemistry community, as well as commenting on their synthetic feasibility. Calculations demonstrating synthetic feasibility should be performed where possible.
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Meet the team
Camilla Abbehausen
UNICAMP
Luis Alvarez de Cienfuegos Rodriguez
University of Granada
Donna Arnold
University of Kent
Vandana Bhalla
Guru Nanak Dev University
Shannon Biros
Grand Valley State University
Xi Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Edwin Chui
One Health International Limited
Nestor Mariano Correa
Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto
Maya Davidovich-Pinhas
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Rodrigo de Souza
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Pablo Andres Denis
Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay
P. Sujatha Devi
CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST)
Franck Dumeignil
University of Lille
Rawil Fakhrullin
Kazan Federal University
Baizeng Fang
The University of British Columbia
Giulia Fiorani
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Steven Fletcher
University of Maryland
Mauro Comes Franchini
University of Bologna
Juan Giner-Casares
University of Córdoba
Carmen Gomes
Iowa State University
José Gomes
University of Aveiro
Paul Groundwater
University of Sydney
Dr Ruchi Gupta
University of Birmingham
Mohammad Hassan
University of the Arts London
James Kah
National University of Singapore
Ranjit Koodali
New Mexico State University
Sreekumar Kurungot
CSIR National Chemical Laboratory
Lei Li
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Qian Li
Shandong University
Hiromitsu Maeda
Ritsumeikan University
Steven McIntosh
Lehigh University
Shivani Mishra
University of South Africa
Abha Misra
IISc Bangalore
Jeff Morin
University of Laval
Tiancheng Mu
Renmin University of China
Hideko Nagasawa
Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Brenno Neto
Universidade de Brasilia
Stephen Ojwach
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Megan O'Mara
University of Queensland
Andrea Pucci
University of Pisa
Roberto Rosal
Universidad de Alcalá
Estelle Roth
University of Reims
Chandra Sekhar Rout
CNMS Jain University
Giacomo Saielli
University of Padova
Ahjeong Son
Ewha Womans University
Oleksandr Stroyuk
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Hongqi Sun
University of Western Australia
Vincent Teng
Swansea University
Patrícia Valentão
University of Porto
Soma Venugopal Rao
University of Hyderabad
Xiao-Feng Wang
Jilin University
Yu Wang
University of Florida
Jin-Ming Wu
Zhejiang University
Zhong-Yong Yuan
Nankai University
Ji-Jun Zou
Tianjin University
Laura Fisher
Executive Editor
Sarah Rainford
Deputy Editor
Anna Moore
Editorial Production Manager
Namita Datta
Assistant Editor
Patrick de Jongh
Assistant Editor
Jie Gao
Assistant Editor
Anoushka Handa
Assistant Editor
Kate Jones
Assitant Editor
Claire Mitchell
Assistant Editor
Chloe Wallace
Assistan Editor
Karina Webster
Editorial Assistant
Jasmin AP
Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond
Publisher
Reviewer panel
RSC Advances has a dedicated reviewer panel made up of expert reviewers from across the chemical sciences and at all career stages.
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