Journal of Catalysis

The Journal of Catalysis usually with J. Catal. abbreviated, is a scientific chemical journal, published since 1962.

Which appears in English language peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier. The articles published in the journal articles deal primarily with the field of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis.

In addition to scientific papers include more Letters to the Editor, short letters to recently published articles, research notes, articles without scientific priority and Priority Communications, Item with new findings, which have a clear requirement for a fast publication, included in the journal.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 5,787. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the journal impact factor with this in the category of physical chemistry is performed on 21 out of 134 journals in the category of chemical and engineering sciences in fifth place out of 133 journals.

Chief Editor of the Journal of Catalysis is Enrique Iglesia, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.

The topics of the publications ranging from studies of catalytic elementary processes at surfaces or metal complexes on analytical methods up to theoretical aspects of catalysis.

According to his own statement, the magazine is counted among the top ten chemistry journals in terms of relevance and impact factor.