About this journal

Essential Chem is an international, peer-reviewed, fully open access journal publishing reproducible multidisciplinary chemistry research. We aim to break down siloed specialisms by bringing together chemists at all career stages to foster better collaboration and information sharing across the greater chemistry community.

Accepting research articles, review articles, rapid communications, data notes, article commentaries, comments, and methods, Essential Chem also welcomes negative results and replication studies. We believe dissemination of all chemistry research provides value to the community and therefore accept your research—whether sound science or novel and innovating research. Green and sustainable research is encouraged, as are proposals for themed collections and Letters to the Editor that discuss analysis of articles previously published in Essential Chem.

Essential Chem publishes twelve distinct yet multidisciplinary sections:

• Analytical & Environmental
• Biological & Medicinal
• Catalysis & Organometallic
• Chemical & Process Engineering
• Electrochemistry
• Inorganic
• Materials & Energy
• Food
• Organic
• Physical
• Polymer
• Theoretical & Computational

Each Section is overseen by a Section Editor and Editorial Board who are experts within the relevant disciplines. It is anticipated that authors may identify multiple suitable sections for their research, however authors will need to select their preferred section upon submission.

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
Essential Chem 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 Section Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to single anonymized peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.

Publishing Ethics Statement
Essential Chem 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

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Editor-in-Chief : Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart – Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA

———  Journal Section Editors  ———

Analytical & Environmental:  Sibel Özkan – Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Biological & Medicinal:  Fawzi Mahomoodally – University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
Catalysis & Organometallic: 
Chemical & Process Engineering:  Hesham El-Enshasy – University of Technology Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
Electrochemistry:  Caleb Hill – University of Wyoming Laramie, USA
Food:  
Inorganic:  Scott Dalgarno – Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Materials & Energy:  Ryan Richards – Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
Organic:  Xuefeng Jiang – East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Physical:  Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart – Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
Polymer:  Roman Boulatov – University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Computational & Theoretical:  Bess Vlaisavljevich – University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

——— Editorial Board Members ———

Jennifer Aitken – Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA
Mehmet Atakay – Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Ryan Baumbach – Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Mehmet Gökhan Çağlayan – Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Cristian Celis-Barros – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA
Alexander Chemey – Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Qianjin Chen – Donghua University, Shanghai, China
Wim Dehaen   – KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Janardhan Reddy Koduru – Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea
Harshita Kumari – University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
Emma Lovell – University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Elisabeth Mansfield – National Institutes of Science & Technology (NIST), Boulder, USA
Kim McKelvey - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Liane Moreau  – Washington State University, Pullman, USA 
Shanlin Pan – University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA
Robert Paton – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Ivan Popov – University of Akron, Akron, USA
David Schilter – Texas State University, San Marcos, USA
Amadeo Sena – University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Mustafa Kemal Sezgintürk - Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey
Erik Strub – University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Jian Tian – Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Patrick Walsh – University of Pennsylvania, State College, USA
Jimmie Weaver – Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
Michael Wong  – Rice University, Houston, USA
Frankie White – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA
Qing-Zheng Yang – Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Wenke Zhang – Jilin University, Jilin, China
Gökhan Zengin – Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey

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