Journal Details
Sustainability & Circularity NOW

About the Journal
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Sustainability & Circularity NOW Author and Reviewer Information
Sustainability & Circularity NOW tackles very serious sustainability challenges and shape an ambitious and interdisciplinary agenda to resolve the global environmental crises that we face. Launching in 2024, it is a chemistry journal that offers the perfect platform for bright minds to share their most revolutionary research in the field of Chemical Science and beyond.
Why publish with us?
- Interdisciplinary reach: Bridges the gap between disciplines to innovate for circular chemistry.
- Rapid peer review: Benefit from Thieme’s revolutionary Select Crowd Review, providing feedback within 72 hours.
- Open access: A fully gold open access journal.
Journal scope
The journal aims to bring together people from academia, industry, education, government, and policy to shape an ambitious, interdisciplinary agenda to tackle global environmental crises.
Sustainability & Circularity NOW welcomes solutions to enhance the sustainability and circularity of existing molecules, materials, and industrial processes, as well as groundbreaking discoveries of new and more sustainable molecules, materials, and synthetic procedures. Work on policy, industry and education relating to sustainable and circular chemistry is also welcomed.
- This journal covers mainly but not exclusively the following research areas:
- Green and Circular Chemistry
- Sustainable Chemistry and Materials
- Safe and Sustainable Design
- Product Design for Circularity
- Circular Material Design
- Circular Economy
- Green Manufacturing and Engineering (with specifications on green metrics, e.g. E-factor, Eco-scale ...)
- Biomass or Wastes as Raw Materials
- Biobased and Circular Plastics
- Zero Emissions Energy Carriers
- Metal Recovery and Recycling
- Alternative / Renewable Clean Energy
- Life-Cycle Assessment
- Environmentally Friendly Reagents and Feedstocks
- Sustainable Synthesis and Catalysis
- Sustainable Industrial Processes
- Sustainability case studies aimed at fostering public and policy debate
- Green/sustainable chemistry education
For more information about the journal, please refer to this link:https://www.thieme.de/de/suscirc-now/journal-information-171850.htm
Meet Our Editorial Board
Led by Editor-in-Chief Chris Slootweg, our board comprises thought leaders committed to sustainability.
“We hope to contribute to the timely development of a sustainable and circular society” – Editor-in-Chief Chris Slootweg on the launch of Sustainability & Circularity NOW
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Review for Sustainability & Circularity NOW
Sustainability & Circularity NOW uses Thieme’s revolutionary Select Crowd Review for reviewing manuscripts. It offers a fast, interactive and secure review process, allowing an evaluation of a manuscript within a very short time. We are constantly looking for new highly motivated crowd members. Please get in touch with SusCircNOW@thieme.de if you would like to become a member of the crowd. Learn more about Select Crowd Review.
Editor-in-Chief Chris Slootweg about the Thieme journal Sustainability & Circularity NOW
For more information about publication details for Sustainability & Circularity NOW, including editorial contacts, publisher information, copyright and licensing terms, visit this link: https://www.thieme.de/de/suscirc-now/imprint-172019.htm