About this journal

Aims and scope

Separation & Purification Reviews provides comprehensive summaries and interdisciplinary viewpoints of significant developments in all areas of separation and purification, including innovative methods, apparatus, theories, and applications. The journal presents reviews that cover a large amount of scientific/technical information in a concise and organized manner on topics such as adsorption, centrifugation, chromatography, crystallization, distillation, extraction, filtration, ion exchange, membrane separations of solid, liquid or gaseous materials. The appropriate content of review manuscripts is described in: Berthod, A. (2009) "So What? or Required content of a review article." Sep. Purif. Rev. 38:203-206.

PEER REVIEW

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 52K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 5.2 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 5.7 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 12.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.430 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.900 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 26 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 47 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 10 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 16% acceptance rate

Editorial board

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Alain Berthod
Institut des Sciences Analytiques
Université Claude Bernard – Lyon 1
5 rue de la Doua
Villeurbanne 69100, France

FOUNDING EDITOR

Carel J. van Oss
Department of Microbiology
School of Medicine
State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 14214

Pr. Carel Van Oss passed away in 2018.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein -  National Research Centre, Egypt
Imran Ali - Central University of Jania Millia Islamia, India
Thomas E. Beesley - Astec, Whippany, USA
Paul F. Bryan - Lygos, Inc., USA
Tai-Shung Chung - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Steven Cramer - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Petr S Fedotov - Vernadsky Institute, Russia
María Celia García-Alvarez-Coque - Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Z. G. Lei - Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Richard D. Noble - University of Colorado, USA
Anil Kumar Pabby - Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India               
Anurag Rathore - Indian Institute of Technology, India
Selvasembian RangabhashiyamSRM University- AP , India
Victoria F. Samanidou - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hai Nguyen Tran - DuyTan University, Vietnam
Jean-Luc ‪Veuthey - Université de Genève, Switzerland
Ralph T. Yang - University of Michigan, USA
Andrew Zydney - Pennsylvania State University, USA

Abstracting and indexing

Separation and Purification Reviews is abstracted/indexed in:

  • EBSCOhost (various)
  • Elsevier BV
    Chimica
    Compendex
    Scopus
  • Genamics JournalSeek
  • International Atomic Energy Agency
    INIS Collection Search (International Nuclear Information System)
  • OCLC
    ArticleFirst
    Electronic Collections Online
  • Ovid
    Inspec
  • Personal Alert (Email)
  • ProQuest (various)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
    Analytical Abstracts (Online)
  • The Engineering Index Monthly (DVD)
  • Clarivate Analytics
    Current Contents
    Science Citation Index Expanded
    Web of Science
  • World Ceramic Abstracts (Online)
  • WTI-Frankfurt eG
    Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts (Online)

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