Editorial Policy | Johnson Matthey Technology Review
Editorial policy
Johnson Matthey Technology Review publishes articles, reviews and short reports on science driving down transport emissions, transforming energy systems, decarbonising chemicals production and creating a circular economy.
Areas of application and fundamental science will be considered in the fields of:

- Sustainable technologies: sustainable industry, low carbon, ‘green’ chemistry, recycling, life cycle analysis and the circular economy
- Catalysis: The development and investigation of new and improved heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts and biocatalysis
- Characterisation: Characterisation of industrially relevant materials including catalysts using established or novel techniques
- Chemical and industrial processes: Process optimisation, catalysis, engineering and design for bulk and speciality chemicals and the energy industry
- Digitalisation: Development of laboratory informatics platforms for data sharing; the use of artificial intelligence or machine learning for data analysis and modelling in industrial applications
- Electrochemistry: For energy conversion, generation, storage and transformation applications in automotive and other industries, for example fuel cells, electrolytic (green) hydrogen and the creation of chemicals
- Emissions control: Control of automotive and stationary emissions by precious and base metal catalysis; legislative developments
- Historical: History of Johnson Matthey, and historical developments in science affecting the chemical industry and sustainability
- Material design and metallurgy: Design and engineering of metals, alloys and materials for industrial applications
- PGM and specialist metallurgy: Fundamentals and applications of platinum group metals, their unique properties and applications in glass, catalysis and other industries; refining and recycling of pgms; sustainable technologies
- Surface chemistry and coatings: Molecular level understanding of gas and liquid interactions at solid surfaces and their application in industry
Other subjects may be considered at the Editor’s discretion. For more advice please contact us.
The Editor’s decision is final.
Last Updated: October 2022
Diversity and Inclusion
Johnson Matthey recognises the role that scientific publishing can play in improving diversity and inclusion. The Johnson Matthey Technology Review positively encourages contributions from traditionally underrepresented groups in research and scholarly publishing.
This journal follows fair and ethical procedures for assessing the quality of contributions. We do not discriminate on the basis of personal characteristics including sex, gender, race or ethnicity, first language, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, disability status or age. We take active steps to prevent biases from appearing in our commissioning, selection, peer review or decision making procedures.
See also our Ethics and Governance Policy
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Some facts about the journal
- The journal is Platinum Open Access – no author fees
- The website receives ~25,000 page views per month
- Popular articles may receive ~500+ downloads per month
- Published by Johnson Matthey since 1957 (formerly Platinum Metals Review)
- Johnson Matthey Technology Review is covered by Web of Science®, Science Citation Index® Expanded; Scopus®; CAS SciFinder® and other databases and is assigned an annual Journal Impact Factor from Clarivate Analytics
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