Aims & Scope

The Journal of the American Chemical Society, founded in 1879, is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society and the world’s preeminent journal of chemistry and interfacing areas of science. The journal considers submissions in core fields such as, but not limited to:

  • Analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry
  • Biological and medicinal chemistry, and biotechnology
  • Sustainable and environmental chemistry
  • Computational and theoretical chemistry
  • Materials and nanoscience
  • Energy and catalysis
  • Chemical engineering
  • Earth, atmospheric and space chemistry
  • Chemical education
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Manuscript Types

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  • Article
  • Communication
  • Perspective*

*Article type by invitation only

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The Benefits of Publishing in an ACS Publications Journal

When you publish with ACS Publications, your research joins the most trusted, most cited, and most read portfolio of journals in the chemical and multidisciplinary sciences. As a nonprofit scholarly publisher, we aim to support the scientific community, and authors around the globe benefit from our:

  • Outstanding Editors: Every manuscript submitted to an ACS Publications journal is handled by our expert team of professional editors—all active researchers in their fields.
  • Trusted Peer Review: ACS Publications maintains a fast, informed peer review process that ensures fair and constructive feedback from a global network of leading scholars.
  • Global Exposure: For groundbreaking research, the scientific community reads and cites our journals. Researchers at more than 5,000 institutions in 99 countries have access to the ACS Publications portfolio, and our readers downloaded full-text articles more than 305 million times in 2023.
  • Innovative Systems: Our modern technologies and processes maintain the trust of the scientific community, and also ensure that you have a painless publishing experience as your manuscript is evaluated both quickly and rigorously.
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Publishing Open Access with ACS

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You can make your research articles fully open access in our hybrid journals under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND license, making them free to read for everyone.

Find out if your institution or research funder currently participates in an ACS read and publish agreement which supports open access publication in ACS journals. If not, explore CC BY and CC BY-NC-ND open access options, and additional details about publishing open access with us via the link below.

All research articles published in our fully open access journals are published under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND license, making them free to read for anyone.

Your article publishing charge (APC) may be covered by your institution or research funder through an ACS read and publish agreement.

ACS Central Science is a diamond open access journal - all articles are free to publish and read, with all editorial and publishing costs covered by the American Chemical Society. Articles are published open access under a CC BY license.

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