RSC Sustainability

RSC Sustainability is a peer-reviewed, gold open access journal launched by the Royal Society of Chemistry, publishing solutions-focused research across the chemical sciences that tackles sustainability challenges and advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.6.《RSC 可持续性》（RSC Sustainability）是英国皇家化学会（Royal Society of Chemistry）创办的同行评审金色开放获取期刊，发表致力于解决可持续性挑战、推进联合国可持续发展目标的化学科学解决方案研究，2025 年影响因子为 6.6。

Scope

• The journal welcomes all solutions-focused research dedicated to solving sustainability challenges and reports advances in chemistry that contribute to and enable one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with authors asked to explain the link in a Sustainability Spotlight section.本刊欢迎一切致力于解决可持续性挑战的解决方案导向研究，发表有助于实现一项或多项联合国可持续发展目标的化学进展，并要求作者在可持续性聚焦（Sustainability Spotlight）栏目中阐明其研究与可持续性的关联。
• As an inclusive and interdisciplinary journal it celebrates multidisciplinary collaboration as well as traditional chemical science contributions, and it seeks submissions from the academic, industry, regulatory and government sectors.作为包容性与跨学科期刊，本刊既鼓励多学科合作，也接纳传统化学科学贡献，并面向学术界、产业界、监管机构与政府部门征稿。
• Its scope covers technologies to achieve responsible consumption and production of chemical products, including the efficient use of natural resources, the elimination of hazardous substances in production and use through sustainable and green chemistry, and the reuse and recycling of chemical products in a circular economy.收录范围涵盖实现化学产品负责任消费与生产的技术，包括自然资源的高效利用、通过可持续与绿色化学在生产和施用中消除有害物质，以及循环经济中化学产品的再利用与回收。
• Methods to analyse these processes, notably techno-enviro-economics, are explicitly in scope, and research claiming greater sustainability must be evidence-based, with quantitative measurements of toxicity, environmental persistence and performance comparisons against existing technologies.分析这些过程的方法（尤其是技术-环境-经济学）明确在收录范围内，宣称更可持续的研究须以证据为基础，提供毒性、环境持久性的定量测量以及与现有技术的性能比较。
• Authors are encouraged to follow life cycle thinking and to present side-by-side comparisons with existing technologies, while papers that primarily aim to increase the economic exploitation of non-renewable resources fall outside the journal's scope.本刊鼓励作者遵循生命周期思维，并与现有技术进行并列比较；主要以增加不可再生资源经济开发为目的的论文不属于收录范围。
• The journal nevertheless welcomes innovative chemical solutions for legacy environmental pollutants, particularly transformative approaches to environmental remediation, and it publishes experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of materials science.本刊仍欢迎针对遗留环境污染物的创新化学方案，尤其是变革性的环境修复方法，并发表覆盖材料科学广度的实验与理论工作。
• Article types include research papers, communications, critical reviews and tutorial reviews, and the journal complements the Royal Society of Chemistry's premier sustainability title Green Chemistry.文章类型包括研究论文、通讯（Communication）、批评性综述与教程综述，本刊与英国皇家化学会旗下旗舰可持续期刊《Green Chemistry》形成互补。

History

• The Royal Society of Chemistry announced the journal in May 2022 as one of three new gold open access titles alongside EES Catalysis and Sustainable Food Technology, as part of its sustainability programme and its commitment to the SDG Publishers Compact.英国皇家化学会于 2022 年 5 月宣布创办本刊，与《EES Catalysis》《Sustainable Food Technology》同为三本新金色开放获取期刊，是其可持续计划与可持续发展目标出版商契约承诺的一部分。
• The journal opened for submissions in August 2022 and published its first issue as volume 1, number 1 in January 2023, introduced by an inaugural editorial from the founding editor-in-chief.本刊于 2022 年 8 月开放投稿，2023 年 1 月出版第 1 卷第 1 期，创刊主编为其撰写了介绍性社论。^[1]
• The launch responded to the decision of the United Nations Environment Assembly in March 2022 to establish a solutions-focused science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution prevention, and the journal aims to host research that informs such policy interfaces.创办背景是 2022 年 3 月联合国环境大会决定设立一个聚焦解决方案的化学品、废物与污染预防科学政策面板，本刊旨在为支撑此类政策界面的研究提供发表平台。
• Article processing charges were waived for all authors during the first two years and fully covered by the Royal Society of Chemistry until mid-2025, after which an APC of GBP 2,100 applies, with institutional agreements, discounts and waivers available and a choice of CC BY or CC BY-NC licences.文章处理费在前两年对全体作者豁免，并由英国皇家化学会承担至 2025 年年中，此后收取 2100 英镑的文章处理费，另有机构协议、折扣与减免选项，许可可在 CC BY 与 CC BY-NC 之间选择。
• The journal was launched as a bimonthly title and now publishes monthly, and it received its first Journal Impact Factor of 4.9 in 2024, rising to 6.6 in 2025.本刊创刊时为双月刊，现改为月刊，2024 年获得首个影响因子 4.9，2025 年升至 6.6。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Tom Welton, Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Imperial College London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Officer of the Order of the British Empire, who served as president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2020 to 2022 and works on ionic liquids, green chemistry and biomass-derived polymers.主编为帝国理工学院（Imperial College London）可持续化学教授 Tom Welton，他是英国皇家化学会会士与大英帝国官佐勋章获得者，2020 至 2022 年任英国皇家化学会会长，研究方向为离子液体、绿色化学与生物质基聚合物。
• The editorial office in Cambridge is led by executive editor Kathryn Gempf, with publisher Neil Hammond and a team of deputy, assistant and publishing editors.编辑部设于剑桥，由执行编辑 Kathryn Gempf 领导，出版人为 Neil Hammond，并配有副编辑、助理编辑与出版编辑团队。
• Seven associate editors support the peer review operation, namely Francesca Kerton of Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, Haichao Liu of Peking University, Zhimin Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vincent Nyamori of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo of the Institute of Carboquimica in Spain, Martin Prechtl of the University of Lisbon and Zhenyu Sun of Beijing University of Chemical Technology.七位副编辑协助同行评审工作，分别是加拿大纽芬兰纪念大学（Memorial University of Newfoundland）的 Francesca Kerton、北京大学的 Haichao Liu、中国科学院（Chinese Academy of Sciences）的 Zhimin Liu、南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学（University of KwaZulu-Natal）的 Vincent Nyamori、西班牙碳化学研究所（Institute of Carboquimica）的 Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo、里斯本大学（University of Lisbon）的 Martin Prechtl 与北京化工大学的 Zhenyu Sun。
• The editorial board members are David Cole-Hamilton of the University of St Andrews and Mike Sutton of Lubrizol, and an advisory board of about eighteen members spans the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Singapore and Australia.编辑委员会委员为圣安德鲁斯大学（University of St Andrews）的 David Cole-Hamilton 与路博润（Lubrizol）的 Mike Sutton，顾问委员会约 18 人，来自英国、美国、加拿大、中国、阿曼、沙特阿拉伯、瑞士、意大利、葡萄牙、新加坡与澳大利亚等国。
• Peer review is anonymous, submissions are made through the journal homepage, pre-submission queries go to the executive editor, and the journal reported first decision times of 23 days overall and 42 days for peer-reviewed articles.同行评审采用匿名方式，稿件经期刊主页提交，投稿前咨询可联系执行编辑，该刊公布的首次决定时间为总体 23 天、经外审文章 42 天。