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RSC Sustainability

Dedicated to sustainable chemistry and new solutions.

Editor-in-Chief: Tom Welton

Open Access: Gold

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You and your research have the power to make the world a better place. If you’re looking into developing new sustainable technologies, or finding cleaner chemical solutions, then we want to hear from you. RSC Sustainability is a dedicated forum for your quality discoveries, offering a space for research to grow and make an impact around the globe.

As an inclusive and interdisciplinary journal, RSC Sustainability welcomes research from all subject areas that are dedicated to solving sustainability challenges for a better, greener future.

ISSN: 2753-8125

Indexed in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus, Web of Science

Journal Impact factor

4.9 (2024)

First decision time (all)

25 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

40 days

Scope

RSC Sustainability welcomes all solutions-focused research dedicated to solving sustainability challenges. The journal reports advances in chemistry which also contribute to and enable one or more of the . As an inclusive journal, we celebrate multidisciplinary collaboration as well as traditional chemical science contributions. We seek contributions from the academic, industry, regulatory and government sectors.

Our journal scope covers technologies to achieve responsible consumption and production of chemical products, including:

  • Efficient use of natural resources
  • Elimination of hazardous substances in production and use (sustainable and green chemistry)
  • Reuse and recycling of chemical products (circular economy)
  • Methods to analyse these processes (techno-enviro-economics) 

Research claiming the greater sustainability of chemical entities should be evidence-based and include quantitative measurements of toxicity, environmental persistence, performance comparisons with existing technologies etc. We encourage authors to follow life cycle thinking, requesting side-by-side comparisons with existing technologies to demonstrate genuine improvements in sustainability.

Papers that primarily aim to increase the economic exploitation of non-renewable resources fall outside our journal's scope. However, we welcome innovative research presenting chemical solutions for addressing legacy environmental pollutants, particularly those offering transformative approaches to environmental remediation.


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Meet the team

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Tom Welton

Imperial College London

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Francesca Kerton

Francesca Kerton

Associate Editor

Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Haichao Liu

Haichao Liu

Associate Editor

Peking University

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Zhimin Liu

Zhimin Liu

Associate Editor

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Vincent Nyamori

Vincent Nyamori

Associate Editor

University of KwaZulu-Natal

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Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo

Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo

Associate Editor

Institute of Carboquimica (ICB-CSIC

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Martin Prechtl

Martin Prechtl

Associate Editor

University of Lisbon

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Zhenyu Sun

Zhenyu Sun

Associate Editor

Beijing University of Chemical Technology

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David Cole-Hamilton

David Cole-Hamilton

Editorial Board Member

University of St Andrews

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Mike Sutton

Mike Sutton

Editorial Board Member

Lubrizol

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Ala'a Al-Muhtaseb

Sultan Qaboos University

Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern

University of Bath

Jothi Kothandaraman

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Adam Lee

Griffith University

Hong Li

Institute of Physics

Chen Liao

Argonne National Laboratory

Matthew Lui

Hong Kong Baptist University

Shengzhong Liu

Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy

Greta Patzke

University of Zurich

Peter Styring

The University of Sheffield

Gyorgy Szekely

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Luigi Vaccaro

University of Perugia

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Sónia Ventura

University of Aveiro

Lei Wang

Westlake University

Charlotte Williams

University of Oxford

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Ben Xu

Northumbria University

Iris Yu

National University of Singapore

Jon Ferrier

Executive Editor

Laura Ghandi

Deputy Editor

Lucy Argyle

Editorial Production Manager

Alex Holiday

Editorial Assistant

Jamie Purcell

Assistant Editor

Alexander John

Assistant Editor

Emily Ellison

Assistant Editor

Clare Fitzgerald

Assistant Editor

Lauren Yarrow-Wright

Assistant Editor

Kevin Vincent

Assistant Editor

Andryj Borys

Assistant Editor

Lee Colwill

Publishing Assistant

Neil Hammond

Publisher

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