Applied Clay Science

Applied Clay Science is an international subscription journal published by Elsevier in Amsterdam since 1985 and devoted to the fundamental and applied science of clays and clay minerals, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.2 and a first-quartile place in mineralogy《应用粘土科学》（Applied Clay Science）是（Elsevier）自 1985 年起在阿姆斯特丹出版的国际性订阅期刊，专注粘土与粘土矿物的基础与应用研究，2025 年影响因子为 5.2，在矿物学领域位居第一四分位。

Scope

• Structure, crystallography and mineralogy of clays and clay minerals, together with their genesis, deposits, geology and geochemistry粘土与粘土矿物的结构、结晶学与矿物学性质，以及其成因、矿床、地质与地球化学。
• Synthesis and purification, thermal behaviour, and the surface, interface, thermodynamic and mechanical properties that make up their physical chemistry合成与提纯、热行为，以及构成其物理化学性质的表面与界面性质、热力学性质与力学性质。
• Interaction with water and with polar and apolar molecules, supported by work on colloidal properties, rheology and modelling与水以及极性、非极性分子的相互作用，并辅以胶体性质、流变学与模型研究。
• Modification by thermal, physical and chemical treatments, yielding organoclays, pillared clays and clays altered by biological microorganisms经热、物理与化学处理实现的改性，产出有机粘土、柱撑粘土以及经微生物改造的粘土。
• Clay-based advanced materials such as clay polymer (bio)nanocomposites, zeolites and geopolymers synthesised from clays, and related lamellar solids including layered double hydroxides and cement silicate hydrates以粘土为基础的高级材料，如粘土聚合物（生物）纳米复合材料、由粘土合成的沸石与地质聚合物，以及层状双氢氧化物、水泥硅酸盐水合物等相关层状固体。
• Environmental uses covering radioactive waste disposal, water engineering, heavy-metal depollution and filtration, and clay minerals in pesticide, drug and animal-feed formulations环境应用，涵盖放射性废物处置、水工程、重金属去污与过滤，以及粘土矿物在农药、药物与饲料配方中的使用。
• Industrial uses in drilling fluids and muds, foundry moulding, fillers and coatings for paint, rubber and plastics, ceramics, construction, paper, catalysis and cosmetics, alongside geotechnical and agricultural applications and hydrocarbon and geothermal prospection工业用途，包括钻井液与钻井泥浆、铸造造型、涂料与橡胶塑料填料、陶瓷、建筑、造纸、催化与化妆品，并延伸至岩土与农业应用以及油气与地热勘探。
• Whatever the application, the journal requires the manuscript to keep its focus on the clay itself, a rule stated in the aims and scope无论应用方向如何，该刊要求稿件始终把焦点放在粘土本身，这一规则明确写在其宗旨与范围中。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in July 1985 under the Elsevier imprint in Amsterdam, and the journal has been published from that city ever since第 1 卷于 1985 年 7 月由（Elsevier）在阿姆斯特丹出版，此后该刊一直在该城市印行。
• It was conceived as a bridge between fundamental clay mineralogy and industrial practice, a framing that still governs its aims and scope four decades later该刊最初被定位为连接基础粘土矿物学与工业实践的桥梁，这一框架四十年后仍主导其宗旨与范围。
• Publication grew to twelve issues a year, and volume numbering passed 229 by 2022, so issues accumulate quickly despite the modest annual article count出版规模发展为每年 12 期，卷号到 2022 年已超过 229，因此尽管年发文量不大，卷册积累很快。
• The scope widened from mineralogy towards environmental remediation, geopolymers, nanocomposites and layered double hydroxides, and the board now fields papers from chemistry, materials science and geotechnical engineering收稿范围从矿物学扩展至环境修复、地质聚合物、纳米复合材料与层状双氢氧化物，编委会如今处理来自化学、材料科学与岩土工程的稿件。
• The impact factor stood at 5.467 in 2021 and 5.907 in 2022, eased to 5.8 in 2024 and settled at 5.2 in 2025, when the journal ranked second of 30 in mineralogy and second quartile in physical chemistry and multidisciplinary materials science影响因子 2021 年为 5.467、2022 年为 5.907，2024 年回落至 5.8，2025 年为 5.2，该年在矿物学 30 种期刊中列第 2 位，在物理化学与材料科学综合类属第二四分位。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, and its stated author benefits include free PDFs and a liberal copyright policy该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）与（Scopus）收录，官方列出的作者权益包括免费 PDF 与宽松的版权政策。

Editors

• Peng Yuan of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is one of two editors-in-chief, with research on clay mineralogy, halloysite and environmental mineral materials中国科学院广州地球化学研究所的袁鹏是两位主编之一，研究粘土矿物学、埃洛石与环境矿物材料。
• Maria Victoria Villar of CIEMAT in Madrid shares the editor-in-chief role, working on bentonite barriers and clay buffers for radioactive waste disposal马德里（CIEMAT）的（Maria Victoria Villar）同为主编，研究用于放射性废物处置的膨润土屏障与粘土缓冲材料。
• Five associate editors cover the journal's spread, namely Pilar Aranda of CSIC Madrid, Juraj Bujdak of Comenius University in Bratislava, Alberto Lopez Galindo of the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada, Giuseppe Lazzara of the University of Palermo and Vanessa Prevot of the Institute of Chemistry of Clermont-Ferrand五位副主编覆盖全刊方向，分别为马德里（CSIC）的（Pilar Aranda）、布拉迪斯拉发考门斯基大学的（Juraj Bujdak）、格拉纳达安达卢西亚地球科学研究所的（Alberto Lopez Galindo）、巴勒莫大学的（Giuseppe Lazzara）与克莱蒙费朗化学研究所的（Vanessa Prevot）。
• The wider board numbers 35 editors and members from 13 countries, led by France with seven, Italy with six, Spain with five and China with four更大的编委阵容由来自 13 个国家的 35 位编辑与委员组成，法国 7 人、意大利 6 人、西班牙 5 人、中国 4 人位居前列。
• Manuscripts go through Elsevier's Editorial Manager, and the board separates full research papers from reviews and short technical notes when assigning handling editors稿件经（Elsevier）的（Editorial Manager）系统处理，编委会在指派责任编辑时把完整研究论文与综述、短篇技术札记区别对待。
• Every submission is peer reviewed, and the publisher's author services add free PDFs and discounts on other Elsevier titles on top of the journal's own editorial screening所有投稿均经同行评议，出版方的作者服务在该刊自身的编辑初筛之外，还提供免费 PDF 与其它（Elsevier）刊物的订阅折扣。