Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Not to be confused with European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry (Bentham Open journal), or Medicinal Chemistry (OMICS Publishing Group journal).

The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in medicinal chemistry. It is published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in 1959 as the Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and obtained its current name in 1963.^[1] Philip S. Portoghese served as editor-in-chief from 1972 to 2011.^[1] In 2012, Gunda Georg (University of Minnesota) and Shaomeng Wang (University of Michigan) succeeded Portoghese (University of Minnesota). In 2021, Craig W. Lindsley (Vanderbilt University) became editor-in-chief. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 7.1.^[2]

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Discipline	Medicinal chemistry
Language	English
Edited by	Craig W. Lindsley
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
History	1959-present
Publisher	American Chemical Society (United States)
Frequency	Biweekly
Impact factor	7.1 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Med. Chem.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JMCMAR
ISSN	0022-2623 (print) 1520-4804 (web)
LCCN	a63000643
OCLC no.	39480771
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

See also

• ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters