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Journal overview

Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews (GCLR) is an international, cross-disciplinary, fully open access journal focused on the contribution of chemistry to sustainable development.

GCLR’s scope aims to build upon the definition of Green Chemistry as first defined by its Founding Editor John Warner, together with Paul Anastas, in Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.

GCLR  is dedicated to bringing together academic, teaching, and industry professionals, including environmental scientists and law and policy makers, who constitute the green chemistry community. We welcome original research letters and articles, review articles, perspective and feature articles, reports on recent innovations, as well as educational resources from those working in related disciplines across chemistry, chemical engineering, political science, jurisprudence, and economics.

GCLR accepts the following article types: Research Article, Research Letter, Review Article, Methods, and Brief Reports.

All contributions should clearly demonstrate impact to advancing the field by reference to the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry and the Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the United Nations in 2015. Such topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Green synthesis and catalysis
  • Green manufacturing and engineering
  • Green product design
  • Green chemistry education
  • Critical raw materials and sustainable resources
  • Energy harvest, storage, and savings
  • Circular economy
  • Environmental chemistry and green metrics
  • Ethics, legislation, and economics

We encourage authors to deposit their manuscripts as a pre-print to speed up the dissemination of research, which allows for feedback before formal peer review. Deposition of your manuscript in a pre-print server will have no bearing on the peer review process and final decision made on your manuscript.

Authors who believe their manuscript would benefit from English editing prior to submission should seek a professional editing service or native English speaker. Details of editing services available from Taylor & Francis are available here.

Peer Review Statement
Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality, original research contributions in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to single anonymized peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.

Publishing Ethics Statement
Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. Taylor & Francis is a member of Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) and utilizes Similarity Check via CrossRef for all journals.

  • More information on our ethical standards and policies can be found here
  • The Journal has an appeals and complaints policy which can be viewed here

All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

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