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
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Journal metrics
Usage
432K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
5.8 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
6.6 (2023) 5 year IF
9.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.474 (2023) SNIP
1.138 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
50 days avg. from submission to first
decision
55 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
13 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
52% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
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.
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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Editorial Board: Lutz Ackermann - University of Göttingen, Germany Fabrice Gallou - Novartis, Switzerland Felipe Garcia - Monash University, Australia Ramesh L. Gardas - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Pushpal Ghosh - Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, India Sachin Handa - University of Missouri, USA Robert Iafe - California State University San Marcos, USA Sonja Jost - DexLeChem GmbH, Germany Sergio N. Kuriyama - Instituto SENAI de Inovação em Química Verde, Brazil Bruce Lipshutz - University of California Santa Barbara, USA Debora M. Martino - Ambient Phototonics, USA Natalie O’Neil - Beyond Benign, USA Ekaterina Pas - Monash University, Australia Si-Fu Tang -Qingdao Agricultural University, China Duangamol N. Tungasmita - Chlulalongkorn University, Thailand Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal - George Washington University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews is abstracted and indexed in: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre; Chemical Abstracts Service; ISI Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences; Geobase; Google Scholar; Microsoft Academic; ProQuest and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).
Open access
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Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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