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ACS membership benefits.

Submitting your work to one of the fully open access ACS Au journals means your research will have extra potential for influence. You can achieve your goals of reaching a wide, international audience, and you won’t be waiting around for a decision either – our median time is, on average, 28 days from submission for peer-reviewed papers.

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PUBLISHING WITH ACS

When you publish your work in an ACS Au family journal, you benefit from:

Wide discoverability and readership thanks to indexing in Web of Science, Scopus, Pub Med and Chemical Abstracts Service
Validation of your research through a fair, efficient and rigorous peer review process, overseen by active research experts in the field
Quick decisions underpinned by the ACS's secure peer review systems - you won’t be hanging around waiting for news about your work

The article processing charge (APC) for any paper accepted into the ACS Au journals varies depending on the license type chosen. The APC could be paid directly by your institution if it has an ACS Institutional Open Access agreement.

If accepted, as Corresponding Author, you also qualify for a year's ACS Membership with a Premium Package. (If you already have an ACS Premium Package, you can claim a $250 APC discount.)

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ACS Publications has an ACS Au journal for everyone. Spanning all of chemistry with a multidisciplinary scope, there’s JACS Au, with a further nine open access journals, each with a focus on a different area of chemistry. From nanoscience to physical chemistry; polymers to measurement science; biological and medicinal chemistry to chemical engineering; materials science to organic and inorganic chemistry – there's an ACS Au journal which can be the perfect home for your work. Explore the ACS Au portfolio and find the right journal for your research.