Chemical Science (journal)

Chemical Science is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of chemistry. It is the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[1] It was established in July 2010 and is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry; before 2018, it was published monthly. It won the Best New Journal 2011 award from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.^[2] The editor-in-chief is Andrew Ian Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Chemical Science

Discipline	Chemistry
Language	English
Edited by	Andrew Ian Cooper
Publication details
History	2010-present
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Weekly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Impact factor	7.4 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Chem. Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	CSHCCN
ISSN	2041-6520 (print) 2041-6539 (web)
OCLC no.	648957145
Links
Journal homepage

In January 2015, the journal moved to an open access publishing model.^[3] It has since become a diamond open access journal, with no charges to readers or authors.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• Directory of Open Access Journals

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 7.4.^[4]

See also

• Chemistry portal

• Chemical Communications
• Chemical Society Reviews