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
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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 Rangabhashiyam - SRM 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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4 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Separation & Purification Reviews (2003 - current)
Formerly known as
- Separation and Purification Methods (1972 - 2002)
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