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. The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry and the American Chemical Journal. It publishes original research papers in all fields of chemistry. Since 2002, the journal is edited by Peter J. Stang. In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing model.

Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of the American Chemical Society is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Thomson-Gale, ProQuest, PubMed, Web of Science, and SwetsWise. According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has an impact factor of 14.612 for 2019.