Resources Chemicals and Materials

Resources Chemicals and Materials is a gold open access peer-reviewed journal founded in 2022 and published by KeAi Publishing for Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, hosted on the ScienceDirect platform, devoted to the creation, production, characterization and economics of materials and chemicals arising during the processing, conversion and utilization of various resources, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.4《资源化学品与材料》（Resources Chemicals and Materials）是 2022 年创办的黄金开放获取同行评审期刊，由（KeAi Publishing）为沈阳化工大学出版并在（ScienceDirect）平台上线，聚焦各类资源加工、转化与利用过程中材料与化学品的创制、生产、表征与经济性，2025 年影响因子为 10.4。

Scope

• The journal focuses on the creation, production, characterization and economics of materials and chemicals arising during the processing, conversion and utilization of various resources该刊聚焦各类资源在加工、转化与利用过程中所产生的材料与化学品的创制、生产、表征与经济性。
• The resources covered are naturally occurring organic ones such as fossil fuels, organic wastes and biomass, inorganic ones such as metallic and non-metallic ores, and a variety of secondary platform intermediates such as syngas, methanol, metal oxides and CO2所涉资源既包括化石燃料、有机废弃物与生物质等天然有机资源、金属与非金属矿石等无机资源，也包括合成气、甲醇、金属氧化物与（CO2）等二次平台中间体。
• Its major subject categories are natural growing materials, organic fossil resources, metallic ore resources, non-metallic inorganic matters, platform intermediates, and process wastes and residues其主要学科方向为天然生长材料、有机化石资源、金属矿石资源、非金属无机物、平台中间体以及工艺废弃物与残余物。
• The journal welcomes high-quality submissions featuring fundamental research results and technical developments, as well as reviews and research highlights on hot topics by leading experts in the related subjects and fields该刊欢迎报告基础研究成果与技术发展的高质量投稿，也欢迎相关学科领域领军专家就热点主题撰写综述与研究亮点。
• With a rapid cycle from submission to production, it provides an open access platform for laboratory scholars, fundamental scientists and technical engineers to share working results, knowledge and engineering experiences该刊以从投稿到出版的快速循环，为实验室学者、基础科学家与技术工程师提供开放获取平台，用以分享工作成果、知识与工程经验。
• It operates a double blind review process in which every manuscript is read by a minimum of two independent expert reviewers, while the editor-in-chief takes the final decision on acceptance该刊实行双盲评审，每篇稿件至少由两位独立专家评审，录用与否由主编最终决定。
• The journal reports four days from submission to first decision, 60 days to a decision after review and 94 days to acceptance, with an acceptance rate of 29 percent该刊报告投稿至首次决定为 4 天，外审后决定为 60 天，录用为 94 天，录用率为 29%。
• It is indexed in Scopus, Ei Compendex, the Emerging Sources Citation Index, the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCOhost and CAS该刊被（Scopus）、（Ei Compendex）、（ESCI）、（DOAJ）、（EBSCOhost）与（CAS）收录。

History

• The journal was founded in 2022, with volume 1 appearing that year, and it has published one volume a year since, reaching volume 5 in 2026该刊于 2022 年创办，当年出版第 1 卷，此后每年一卷，2026 年已出至第 5 卷。
• It is owned by Shenyang University of Chemical Technology in Shenyang, China, which holds the copyright of the journal and its bound volumes, while authors retain the copyright of their individual articles该刊由中国沈阳的沈阳化工大学所有，期刊及合订本版权归该校所有，单篇论文版权则由作者保留。
• KeAi Communications holds non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights, and the journal is produced on the ScienceDirect platform of Elsevier（KeAi Communications）持有非独家出版与发行权，期刊在爱思唯尔的（ScienceDirect）平台制作上线。
• It is a fully open access journal in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, all articles carry a CC BY-NC-ND license, and an article publishing charge of up to 800 US dollars applies with waivers available该刊是践行布达佩斯开放获取倡议（BOAI）的完全开放获取期刊，全部文章采用（CC BY-NC-ND）许可，文章处理费最高 800 美元并设有减免机制。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.4 places it in the first quartile of the Journal Citation Reports category ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL on the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Scopus reports a 2025 CiteScore of 14.6其 2025 年影响因子为 10.4，居期刊引用报告（JCR）化学工程（ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL）学科 Q1 区（数据库为（ESCI）），（Scopus）报告其 2025 年（CiteScore）为 14.6。
• Each volume appears in four issues, in March, June, September and December该刊每卷出版 4 期，分别为 3 月、6 月、9 月与 12 月。

Editors

• Guangwen Xu, of the Key Laboratory on Resources Chemicals and Materials of the Ministry of Education at Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, and Guoqing Guan, of the Institute of Regional Innovation at Hirosaki University in Japan, serve as editors-in-chief（Guangwen Xu）与（Guoqing Guan）任共同主编，前者任职于沈阳化工大学资源化学品与材料教育部重点实验室，后者任职于日本弘前大学区域创新研究所。
• Six editors support the journal, among them Muhammad Aziz of Tohoku University in Japan, Haipeng Yu of Northeast Forestry University, Xiaogang Hao of Taiyuan University of Technology, Ondrej Masek of the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and Linxin Zhong of South China University of Technology该刊设 6 位编辑，包括日本东北大学的（Muhammad Aziz）、东北林业大学的（Haipeng Yu）、太原理工大学的（Xiaogang Hao）、英国爱丁堡大学的（Ondrej Masek）与华南理工大学的（Linxin Zhong）。
• The editorial board lists more than sixty members drawn from universities and institutes in China, Japan, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand and Greece编委会列名成员逾 60 人，来自中国、日本、美国、加拿大、英国、比利时、瑞士、奥地利、俄罗斯、马来西亚、泰国、越南、新西兰与希腊等国的大学与研究所。
• The editorial office is hosted by Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, manuscripts are submitted entirely online through an Editorial Manager system, and authors may opt to release preprints on SSRN编辑部设于沈阳化工大学，稿件经（Editorial Manager）系统全程在线投稿，作者也可选择在（SSRN）发布预印本。
• The journal carries the Chinese national serial publication number CN 21-1628/TQ alongside its electronic ISSN该刊除电子版（ISSN）外，还持有国内统一连续出版物号（CN 21-1628/TQ）。
• Articles are preserved through the CLOCKSS and Portico archiving services论文通过（CLOCKSS）与（Portico）归档服务长期保存。