Green Chemistry Journal (IJGC): Scope, Indexing and How to Publish in 2026

Green chemistry has a definition problem. Ask ten researchers what it means and you will get answers ranging from solvent substitution to carbon accounting to soil cleanup. Most chemistry journals pick one interpretation and reject the rest.

The International Journal of Green Chemistry (IJGC) picks a specific one, and says so clearly: remediation, phytoremediation, phytostabilization and environmental engineering science. If your work is about cleaning up contamination or reducing environmental burden through chemistry, this green chemistry journal has a defined place for it.

It is a peer-reviewed, hybrid open access journal published since 2015 by JournalsPub. Here is what it covers, who runs it, where it is indexed, and how to submit.

What IJGC Covers

This green chemistry journal’s stated scope is narrower than the phrase “green chemistry” usually implies, and that is to your advantage if your work fits it. It covers recent advancement in green chemistry and related environmental science, with a declared focus on a niche segment of technology dealing with remediation, phytoremediation, phytostabilization and environmental engineering science.

Two issues a year makes this a small journal. Fewer slots, but also a short table of contents where your paper is visible rather than buried.

The full Focus and Scope is on the journal page.

Research Areas

Reading the recent issues alongside the stated scope, the published work falls into five areas.

Remediation and Bioremediation

Contaminant degradation, biostimulation, soil and water treatment. Hydrocarbon remediation appears directly in recent issues, including nutrient-driven biostimulation approaches.

Phytoremediation and Phytostabilization

Plant-based approaches to contaminated land. This is named explicitly in the journal’s scope and is a defining part of its identity — relatively few chemistry journals list it as core.

Industrial Effluent and Wastewater Treatment

COD and BOD reduction, total dissolved solids, treatment strategy evaluation and the sustainability economics around them.

Clean Energy and Decarbonisation Chemistry

Electrolytic hydrogen, embodied carbon accounting, low-carbon feedstocks and the chemistry of industrial decarbonisation.

Environmental Chemistry and Public Health

Chemical exposure in consumer and agricultural supply chains, and the health implications of chemical treatment practices.

Recent Papers

Four examples that show the journal’s working range.

A Chemical Thorn in the Heart of Flowers: An Investigation into Chemical Preservation of Commercial Flowers and Its Health Implications — Ravuri Hema Krishna investigates chemical preservation across the floral supply chain for jasmine, rose, chrysanthemum and marigold, and what it means for the people handling them. An unusual angle, and a good example of the journal’s willingness to take applied environmental chemistry seriously.

Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Degradation with the Action of Bio-stimulant using NPK Fertilizer — Ukpaka and co-authors monitor hydrocarbon degradation across different biostimulant dosages, with curve fitting and rate analysis. Core remediation work.

Industrial Effluent Pollution and Sustainable Treatment Strategies: An Analytical Approach — Kunder and Parikh examine industrial effluent loads, covering COD, BOD and total dissolved solids, against treatment strategy options.

Statistical Analysis of Embodied Carbon Emissions Intensity of Hydrogen Produced in India by Grid Connected Water Electrolysers — Rupsha Bhattacharyya analyses alkaline and PEM electrolysers against grid carbon intensity and the economics of continuous operation.

The pattern: a real contaminant or process, measured data, and a practical conclusion. Theoretical green chemistry without an environmental application is less common here.

Who Runs the Journal

The Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Sandeep Rai, Technical Director and General Manager of R&D at Dyne Chemicals LLP in Gujarat.

Like a handful of applied journals, this one is led from industry rather than academia. For a green chemistry journal built around remediation and environmental engineering, that is a reasonable fit: an industrial R&D director evaluates whether a treatment approach would work at scale, at cost, under real effluent loads. If your paper is a process or treatment study with practical intent, that is a useful reader. If it is purely theoretical, consider whether the fit is right.

Indexing

This green chemistry journal is indexed in three databases: Google Scholar, Advanced Science Index and JournalTOCs.

JournalTOCs is the most useful of the three for a niche journal. Researchers use it to set table-of-contents alerts by subject, which means your paper can reach people who have already registered an interest in environmental and green chemistry, rather than waiting to be found by search.

Now the part to be clear about: IJGC is not indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Chemical Abstracts Service or PubMed, and it does not currently publish an SJIF or Index Copernicus Value. Compared with most chemistry journals, this is limited indexing coverage.

What that means in practice: if your institution, funder or thesis committee requires a Scopus or Web of Science indexed publication, this green chemistry journal will not meet that requirement, and you should confirm your own rules before submitting anywhere. If you are publishing applied remediation or effluent treatment work that needs a peer-reviewed home with a DOI, and discoverability through Google Scholar is sufficient for your purpose, it does that job.

Is This the Right Journal for Your Paper?

Probably a good fit if:

• Your work is on remediation, phytoremediation or phytostabilization — these are named in the scope, not merely tolerated
• You have a real contaminant or effluent, measured data and a practical treatment conclusion
• Your paper is applied environmental chemistry that broader chemistry journals consider too specialised
• Google Scholar discoverability and a DOI meet your requirement

Look elsewhere if:

• You need Scopus, Web of Science, CAS or PubMed indexing
• Your work is synthetic or theoretical chemistry with no environmental application
• You need a published impact metric for a promotion or evaluation file
• Your paper is pharmacological or biomedical rather than environmental

How to Submit

Check the scope first, carefully. This journal’s scope is specific. Remediation and environmental engineering chemistry fit. General organic synthesis, analytical method development without environmental context, and pharmacological studies generally do not.

Read the guidelines. Manuscript Guidelines, For Authors and the Peer Review Policy are all published on the site.

Submit through the portal. Upload your manuscript via the manuscript submission system.

Plan around two issues a year. With a January–June and July–December cycle, submission timing affects when your paper appears. Earlier in a cycle is generally better.

What Reviewers Will Look For

Environmental and remediation chemistry manuscripts come back for a predictable set of reasons.

• Contaminant identified and quantified. Compound or class, initial concentration, matrix, measurement method. “Hydrocarbon contamination” is not a specification.
• Treatment conditions complete. Dosage, contact time, temperature, pH, mixing, scale. A remediation result without conditions cannot be reproduced.
• Analytical method validated. Instrument, calibration range, detection and quantification limits, recovery rates.
• Controls present. Untreated matrix, natural attenuation baseline, blank runs. Without them, degradation attributed to your treatment is unproven.
• Replicates and scatter. Number of runs, standard deviation, not a single curve.
• Efficiency reported properly. Percentage removal with the time period and starting concentration attached, not a bare figure.
• Scale and cost addressed. An industry editor will ask what this costs and whether it works beyond the bench. Answering it first strengthens the paper.
• Current references. Remediation technology and decarbonisation chemistry both move quickly.

Conclusion

IJGC is a small, specialised green chemistry journal with limited indexing. That is the honest summary, and if your institution requires Scopus or Web of Science, it settles the question before you read further.

What it offers, for a specific kind of author, is genuine: a clearly stated niche in remediation, phytoremediation and environmental engineering chemistry that few journals name explicitly; a decade of publication since 2015; a DOI on every article; an Editor-in-Chief running industrial R&D at a chemicals company; and a small table of contents where an applied treatment study is visible rather than lost.

For a bioremediation study, an effluent treatment analysis, a phytoremediation trial or applied decarbonisation chemistry, it is a realistic venue — particularly for work that general chemistry journals return as too applied or too narrow.

If that describes your research, read the manuscript guidelines, work through the checklist above, and submit your manuscript.

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