Abbreviated title (ISO 4) J. Cheminform. Language English | Discipline Cheminformatics Publication history 2009-present | |
Edited by Rajarshi Guha, Egon Willighagen Publisher Springer Science+Business Media | ||
The Journal of Cheminformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers cheminformatics and molecular modelling. It was established in 2009 with David Wild (Indiana University) and Christoph Steinbeck (EMBL-EBI) as founding editors-in-chief, and was originally published by Chemistry Central. At the end of 2015, the Chemistry Central brand was retired and its titles, including Journal of Cheminformatics, were merged with the SpringerOpen portfolio of open access journals.
As of 2016, the editors-in-chief are Rajarshi Guha (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) and Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University). The journal has issued a few special issues ("article collections") in 2011 and 2012, covering topics like PubChem3D, the Resource Description Framework, and the International Chemical Identifier.
Abstracting and indexing
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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 3.949. The most cited paper is on OpenBabel and, as of 2016, has been cited more than 700 times according to the Web of Science.