''RSC Advances'' is an online-only

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covering research on all aspects of the

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. It was established in 2011 and is published by the

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. The

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is Russell J. Cox ( Leibniz University Hannover). In 2014, the journal moved to a very high publication frequency, initially about 100/year (similar to that of ''

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''), 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, 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

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. 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

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/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, and

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* {{Royal Society of Chemistry, state=collapsed Royal Society of Chemistry academic journals Publications established in 2011 Chemistry journals English-language journals Journals more frequent than weekly Irregular journals Online-only journals