Chinese Journal of Catalysis is an international peer-reviewed journal founded in 1980. It is co-sponsored by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Chemical Society, and it is currently published by the Elsevier B.V. and Science Press. The journal represents China's premier international journal in the chemical sciences and has been ranked among the top two chemistry journals in terms of SCI impact factor over the past five years. It is the most well recognized catalysis journal in China and has a broad readership. Chinese Journal of Catalysis was awarded the Second Class Prize of the National Journal Awards in 2005. Besides publishing regular manuscripts, Chinese Journal of Catalysis also publishes 3-4 themed special issues each year on hot topics guest-edited by prominent catalytic scientists.
The journal is dedicated to publication of original research in all aspects of catalysis, including heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, environmental catalysis, energy-oriented catalysis, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and biocatalysis. Manuscript types include Articles, Reviews, Communications, Highlights, Perspectives, and Viewpoints.
The editorial management of the journal currently follows the premium international way; the Editors-in-Chief and the Associate Editors professionally handle manuscripts including pre-screening of manuscripts, identifying referees, and making the final decision.The scope of the journal includes:
New trends in catalysis for applications in energy production, environmental protection, and preparation of new materials, petroleum chemicals, and fine chemicals;
Scientific foundation for the preparation and activation of catalysts of commercial interest or their representative models;
Spectroscopic methods for structural characterization, especially methods for in situ characterization;
New theoretical methods of potential practical interest and impact in the science and applications of catalysis and catalytic reactions;
Relationship between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis;
Theoretical studies on the structure and reactivity of catalysts.
The journal also accepts contributions on photocatalysis, biocatalysis, surface science, and catalysis-related chemical kinetics.
1. Introduction to the Journal
Chinese Journal of Catalysis is co-sponsored by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Chemical Society, and it is currently published by the Elsevier group. This monthly journal publishes in English timely contributions of original and rigorously reviewed articles in all fields of catalysis. The journal publishes Reviews, Communications, Articles, Highlights, Perspectives, and Viewpoints written in English.
Chinese Journal of Catalysis publishes manuscripts of highly scientific values that help the understanding and de-fining of new concepts in both the fundamental issues and practical applications of catalysis. Chinese Journal of Catalysis is a China's top journal in the chemical sciences with a current SCI impact factor of 1.964 (Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports 2015). The journal is abstracted and indexed by many databases, including Abstract Journals (VINITI), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CIG), Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions (RSC), Current Contents/ Engineering, Computing and Technology (Thomson ISI), Chemical Abstract Service/SciFinder (CAS), Chemistry Citation Index (Thomson ISI), EI Compendex (EI), Japan Information Center of Science and Technology, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Thomson ISI), Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson ISI), SCOPUS (Elsevier), and Web of Science (Thomson ISI), and all the important indexing systems in China.
The scope of Chinese Journal of Catalysis includes the fol-lowing: New trends in catalysis for applications in energy production, environmental protection, and production of new materials, petroleum chemicals, and fine chemicals; Scientific foundation for the preparation and activation of catalysts of commercial interest or their representative models; Spectro-scopic methods for structural characterization, especially in situ characterization; New theoretical methods of potential practical interest and impact in the science and applications of catalysis and catalytic reactions; Relationship between ho-mogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis; Theoretical studies on the structure and reactivity of catalysts. The journal also accepts contributions to photo-catalysis, biocatalysis, surface sciences, and chemical kinetic studies related to catalysis.
2. Types of contributions
There are six types of manuscripts.
Reviews deal with topics of current interest in the areas covered by Chinese Journal of Catalysis. Reviews are surveys, with entire, systematic, and important information, of recent progress in important topics of catalysis. Rather than an as-semblage of detailed information or a complete literature survey, a critically selected treatment of the material is de-sired. Unsolved problems and possible developments should also be discussed. Authors should have published articles in the field. The references for a Review should be more than 80.
Communicationsrapidly report studies with significant innovation and with major academic value. They are limited to 3 Journal pages (approximately 15000 characters). Manu-scripts accepted as Communications will be published after its acceptance as soon as possible.
Articles are original full-text reports on innovative, sys-tematic, and completed research in catalysis.
Highlights describe and comment on very important new results in the original research of a third person with a view to highlight their significance. The results should be presented clearly and concisely without the comprehensive details required for an original article. Research highlights should not be more than 2 Journal pages (approximately 9000 characters) in length and should be appropriately organized by the author. Chemical formulae, figures, and schemes should be restricted to important examples; and the number of formulae, figures, and schemes should be limited to 1?4. The number of references should be no more than 6.
Perspectives are short reviews of recent developments in an established or developing topical field. The authors of Perspectives should offer a critical assessment of the trend of the field, rather than a summary of literatures. Perspectives will be 2-5 Journal pages (10000-25000 characters) in length with a maximum of 20 references and one to four figures/tables.
Viewpoints describe the results of original research in general in some area, with a view to highlighting the progress, analyzing the major problems, and commenting on the possible research target and direction in the future. Viewpoints may be organized as the author wishes, but should not be more than 3-6 Journal pages (15000-30000 characters) in length. Chemical formulae, figures, and schemes should be restricted to important examples, and the number of references should be no more than 30.
3. Before submission
3.1. Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest, including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations, within the three years from the beginning of the submitted work that can inappropriately influence or is perceived to influence their work. Please visit the website (http://www.cjcatal.org) and see the "Conflict of interest" before submission, and declare the Conflict of interest during the manuscript submission process.
3.2 Plagiarism
Chinese Journal of Catalysis does not publish manuscripts that have already appeared in print or electronically. Submission of a manuscript implies that the paper has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis) and is not under consideration for publication in any medium and any language. It is not in violation of any copyright law, and all authors and responsible authorities of the manuscript have agreed to its submission. the authors are to ensure that the publication of the manuscript is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked through Crosscheck.
3.3. Author list
When submit a manuscript, the submitting author must provide the contact information (full name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and mailing address) of all co-authors. The submitting author has the obligation of informing all co-authors concerning the manuscript sub-mission. Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Editorial office from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement.
