Abbreviated title (ISO 4) J. Am. Chem. Soc. Language English Publication history 1879–present | Discipline Chemistry Edited by Peter J. Stang | |
Publisher American Chemical Society (United States) | ||
The Journal of the American Chemical Society (also known as JACS) 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 (July 1893) and the American Chemical Journal (January 1914). It publishes original research papers in all fields of chemistry. Since 2002, the journal is edited by Peter J. Stang (University of Utah). 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 had an impact factor of 12.113 for 2014 and its newest impact factor is 13.038 for 2015.