Aims and scope

Adsorption, Journal of the International Adsorption Society (JIAS), is a comprehensive resource for scientists, engineers, and technologists, providing peer-reviewed content on adsorption studies and closely related fields. JIAS aims to publish papers containing novel ideas in the field of adsorption, including new experimental or theoretical concepts spanning fundamental and practical aspects of adsorption. Fundamental aspects include molecular simulation, thermodynamics, kinetics, chemistry and physics of adsorption phenomena. Practical aspects include novel adsorbent materials, processes, applications, models, as well as new engineering and equipment designs. JIAS offers a variety of content such as articles, review papers, special issues as collections, tutorials, book reviews, and meeting announcements. Highly valued by authors, JIAS offers open access publishing at no cost to corresponding authors from participating institutions through Springer Nature Transformative agreements.

It is important to note that while adsorption of metal ions, organic ions, dyes and other chemicals from solution is a widely studied and important topic, JIAS does not accept routine studies in these areas that merely report adsorption capacities, isotherms, or kinetic data without significant new insights. Submissions in these areas must demonstrate exceptional innovation before consideration, such as the development of new adsorption mechanisms or theoretical models, the discovery and full characterization of novel adsorbent materials with transformative performance or mechanistic understanding relative to the state-of-the-art, or fundamental breakthroughs in adsorption science, selectivity, or regeneration methods. Authors must demonstrate that their work fits these criteria to avoid immediate rejection.