{{Infobox journal | title = RSC Advances | cover = | editor = {{ubl|Russell Cox|Karen Faulds}} | discipline = Chemistry | abbreviation = RSC Adv. | publisher = Royal Society of Chemistry | country = United Kingdom | frequency = Irregular (70+/year) | openaccess = Yes | history = 2011–present | impact = 3.9 | impact-year = 2023 | website = https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/rsc-advances/ | link1 = https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/ra | link1-name = Online access | OCLC = 778745168 | LCCN = | CODEN = RSCACL | ISSN = | eISSN = 2046-2069 }} '''''RSC Advances''''' is an online-only peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on all aspects of the chemical sciences. It was established in 2011 and is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The current editors-in-chief are Russell Cox (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and Karen Faulds (University of Strathclyde).<ref>[https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/rsc-advances/editorial-board-members/#ra_cox Editorial Board] Retrieved on 2023-06-15.</ref>
In 2014, the journal moved to a very high publication frequency,<ref>[http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals?key=title&value=all RSC Journals] --- please click on letter '''R''', and then browse the issues of ''RSC Advances'' by expanding the issue tree-list.</ref> initially about 100/year (similar to that of ''ChemComm''), but later in the year (and in 2015) turned to even higher frequency—however it did not become a continuous journal. The number of pages published annually had increased dramatically from about 26,500 in 2013 to over 65,000 in 2014,<ref name="WilsonHumphrey2017">{{Cite journal|last=Wilson|first=Emma|last2=Humphrey|first2=Jamie|date=2017-03-10|title=Successfully transitioning the world's largest chemistry subscription journal to a gold open access publication|journal=Insights|volume=30|issue=1|pages=38–46|doi=10.1629/uksg.343|issn=2048-7754|doi-access=free}}</ref> culminating at 116 issues and 115,000+ pages (~1000 pages per issue) in 2016.
In late 2016, it was announced that with effect from January 2017, the journal would convert from a subscription based journal to an open access journal.<ref name="WilsonHumphrey2017" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2016/jul/rsc-advances-open-access/|title=RSC Advances goes gold open access|last=Chemistry|first=The Royal Society of|date=2016-07-01|website=www.rsc.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-13}}</ref> Meanwhile, the journal experienced a cool-down in publication volume, with each issue having only ~500 pages. There were 89 issues in 2017 and 74 issues in 2018.
== Abstracting and indexing == The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded,<ref name=ISI>{{cite web |url=http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ |title=Master Journal List |publisher=Thomson Reuters |work=Intellectual Property & Science |access-date=2013-03-27 |archive-date=2017-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926150543/http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences,<ref name=ISI /> and Scopus.<ref name=Scopus>{{cite web |url=http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/excel_doc/0003/148548/title_list.xlsx |title=Scopus title list |format=Microsoft Excel |publisher=Elsevier |access-date=2014-09-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202041814/http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/excel_doc/0003/148548/title_list.xlsx |archive-date=2013-12-02 }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/ra/about.asp}}
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