Journal of the American Chemical Society
The Journal of the American Chemical Society is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society.[1] The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (July 1893) and the American Chemical Journal (January 1914). It covers all fields of chemistry. Since 2021, the editor-in-chief is Erick M. Carreira (ETH Zurich).[2] In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing model.
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| Discipline | Chemistry |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Erick M. Carreira |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1879–present |
| Publisher | American Chemical Society (United States) |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| 16.383 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | JACSAT |
| ISSN | 0002-7863 (print) 1520-5126 (web) |
| LCCN | 16003159 |
| OCLC no. | 01226990 |
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, Scopus, EBSCO databases, ProQuest databases, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, and the Science Citation Index Expanded.[3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 16.383.[4]
Editors-in-chief
The following people are or have been editor-in-chief:[5]
- 1879–1880 – Hermann Endemann
- 1880–1881 – Gideon E. Moore
- 1881–1882 – Hermann Endemann
- 1882–1883 – Editorial Committee
- 1884–1892 – Abram A. Breneman
- 1893–1901 – Edward Hart
- 1902–1917 – William A. Noyes Sr.
- 1918–1949 – Arthur Lamb
- 1950–1962 – W. Albert Noyes Jr.
- 1963–1969 – Marshall D. Gates Jr.
- 1969–1975 – Martin Stiles
- 1975–1981 – Cheves Walling
- 1982–2001 – Allen J. Bard
- 2002–2020 – Peter J. Stang
- since 2021 – Erick M. Carreira
References
- List of Issues back to 1879
- JACS Editors and Editorial Board
- "Journal of the American Chemical Society". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- "Journal of the American Chemical Society". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.
- "Celebrating 140 Years". JACS. Retrieved 28 July 2022.