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Journal History

2011	Inaugural issue released, initially published as a quarterly journal.
2014	Indexed by Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).
2015	Received its first impact factor of 2.000.
2016	IF increased to 2.964. Changed to a monthly released journal.
2017	IF increased to 3.082.
2018	IF increased to 3.465. The following topic sections were setup: Electrocatalysis; Metal Catalysis; Biomass Catalysis; Computational Catalysis.
2019	The 2018 Impact Factor was received (3.444). New sections were set up: Catalytic Materials; Environmental Catalysis; Photocatalysis; Nanostructured Catalysts; Catalysis in Organic and Polymer Chemistry; Biocatalysis and General.
2020	The 2019 Impact Factor was received (3.520). Catalysts published its 4000th paper. Catalysts organized The 1st International Electronic Conference on Catalysis Sciences and its webinar series (“Recent Advances in Biocatalysis for Biomanufacturing”and “Bioelectrochemistry”).
2021	IF increased to 4.146. Catalysts published its 5000th paper. New sections were set up: Catalytic Reaction Engineering; Industrial Catalysis; Catalysis for Sustainable Energy; Catalysis for Pharmaceuticals.

2011–	Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Keith Hohn
2018–	Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta for Section “Catalytic Materials” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jean-François Lamonier for Section “Environmental Catalysis” Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Vincenzo Baglio for Section “Electrocatalysis” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Adam F. Lee for Section “Nanostructured Catalysts” Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Evangelos Topakas for Section “Biocatalysis” Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Juan J. Bravo-Suarez for Section “Biomass Catalysis” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. C. Heath Turner for Section “Computational Catalysis”
2019–	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kotohiro Nomura for Section “Catalysis in Organic and Polymer Chemistry”
2020–	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Detlef W. Bahnemann for Section “Photocatalysis”