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When you publish with ACS Publications, your research joins the most trusted, most cited, and most read portfolio of journals in chemistry and multidisciplinary sciences.
As a nonprofit scholarly publisher, ACS Publications supports you in sharing your science with the global chemistry community through 85+ journals known for rigorous peer review, quick decision times, strong Impact Factors and high editorial standards. ACS is proud to offer flexible publishing options, including open access journals.
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNALS
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ACS publishes the most respected & trusted chemistry journals, led by internationally renowned Editors that bridge the physical and life sciences and connect the basic sciences with applied disciplines such as medicine and engineering.
Two-Year Journal Impact Factor: 14.5
Total Citations: 568,486
Time to First Peer Review Decision: 28.2 days
Editor-in-Chief:
Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich
Two-Year Journal Impact Factor: 3.7
Total Citations: 72,318
Time to first Peer Review Decision: 28 days
Editor-in-Chief:
Krishna N. Ganesh, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Two-Year Journal Impact Factor: 11.7
Total Citations: 130,517
Time to first Peer Review Decision: 28.4 days
Editor-in-Chief:
Cathleen Crudden, Queen's University Department of Chemistry
Two-Year Journal Impact Factor: 8.6
Total Citations: 4,796
Time to first Peer Review Decision: 27.1 days
Editor-in-Chief:
Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology
Two-Year Journal Impact Factor: 13.1
Total Citations: 18,793
Time to first Peer Review Decision: 41.6 days
Editor-in-Chief:
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University
Two-Year Journal Impact Factor: 51.5
Total Citations: 230,879
Time to first Peer Review Decision: 65.4 days
Editor-in-Chief:
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Princeton University
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Our portfolio encompasses all areas of food and agricultural research, serving as the premier source for researchers across all sectors.
ACS Publications publishes almost 20 journals spanning biological chemistry, chemical biology, and related fields.
Our environmental and sustainability portfolio spans a wide variety of subjects, from green chemistry to environmental technologies, air quality, water research and more.
Explore our extensive portfolio of journals spanning materials science, nanoscience, nanotechnology and related fields.
Our organic and inorganic chemistry portfolio encompasses a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from the core principles of organic and inorganic chemistry to specialized fields.
Discover journals in physical chemistry and chemical physics, including specialized fields such as catalysis, energy, quantum chemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry.
Submitting your work to one of the fully open access ACS Au journals means your research will have extra potential for influence. 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.
Engage with the scientific community and discover what ACS has to offer in the field of Measurement Science covering analytical results in diverse fields such as optical materials, sensors, and engineering.
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When you publish with an ACS Publications journal you benefit from:
- Expert Editors-in-Chief and their team of editors handling your manuscript, all of whom are active, practicing researchers in the field.
- A rigorous peer review process, ensuring the thorough evaluation of manuscripts.
- Rapid processing times to help communicate your latest findings to the widest and most relevant audiences, faster.
- Wide readership of your work – readers downloaded ACS full-text articles over 346 million times in 2024.
- A range of flexible choices to publish open access, through any of our journals, including our fully open access publications.
- Discoverability through world-leading abstracting and indexing services, including Web of Science™, Scopus, CAS, EBSCOhost and PubMed.
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PUBLISHING TOOLS & RESOURCES
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“For submission ACS always reviewed any research work thoroughly and genuinely. I like the way the editors and reviewers work with each article so that the article can be completely free from any errors.”
Postdoctoral Scientist, Materials Chemistry, India
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