Chemical Science
Home to exceptional research and thought-provoking ideas. Open and free, for authors and readers.
Editor-in-Chief: Andrew Cooper
Open Access: Diamond
Your unique discoveries deserve to be celebrated. We are a home to world-leading interdisciplinary research from every aspect of the chemical sciences. We offer an open and trusted venue for your articles to flourish, and we are not afraid of publishing research that goes beyond the ordinary.
Too bold? Too progressive? No such thing
ISSN: 2041-6539
Indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science, Science Citation Index (SCI), PubMed Central, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Journal Impact Factor
7.5 (2024)
First decision time (all)
5 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
33 days
Scope
Our journal has a wide-ranging scope which covers the full breadth of the chemical sciences. The research we publish contains the sorts of novel ideas, challenging questions and progressive thinking that bring undiscovered breakthroughs within reach.
Your paper could focus on a single area, or cross many. It could be beyond the accepted bounds of the chemical sciences. It might address an immediate challenge, contribute to a future breakthrough or be wholly conceptual.
We're a team from every field of the chemical sciences, and know from experience that breakthroughs that drive the solutions to global challenges can come from anywhere, at any time. You could even start an entirely new area of research.
Chemical Science has a broad remit. We want bold papers that really challenge the status quo. So if you think something’s particularly controversial, new or exciting – well, that’s exactly the kind of paper we want.
Prof Andrew Cooper, Editor-in-chief
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Meet the team
Subi George
Associate Editor
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
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Christian Hackenberger
Associate Editor
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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Rommie Amaro
University of California
Paramjit Arora
New York University
Jennifer Aitken
Duquesne University
Knut Asmis
Leipzig University
Xinhe Bao
State Key Laboratory of Catalysis
David. N. Beratan
Duke University
Christopher Chang
Princeton University
Chi-Ming Che
University of Hong Kong
Vijay Chudasma
University College London
Koen Clays
KU Leuven
Michael Cohen
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU
Connor Coley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Josep Cornella
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
James Crowley
University of Otago
Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner
Ruhr University Bochum
Martina Delbianco
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Jillian Dempsey
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William Dichtel
Northwestern University
Haohong Duan
Tsinghua University
Xinliang Feng
TU Dresden
Ben Feringa
University of Groningen
Joshua Figueroa
University of California
Natia Frank
University of Nevada
Marina Freitag
Newcastle University
Jeremiah Gassensmith
University of Texas at Dallas
Gilles Gasser
Paris Science et Lettres University
Elizabeth Gibson
Newcastle University
Robert J. Gilliard, Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Frank Glorius
WWU Münster
Leticia González
University of Vienna
Alvar Gossert
ETH Zürich
Alexis Grimaud
Boston College
Tanja Gulder
University of Leipzig
Grace Han
Brandeis University
Buxing Han
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Mahesh Hariharan
IISER
Thomas Heine
Dresden Technical University
Felipe Herrera
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Xiao Jiang
Aramco Research Center
Stephanie Kath-Schorr
University of Cologne
Marina Kuimova
Imperial College London
Kyle Lancaster
Cornell University
Daniele Leonori
RWTH Aachen University
Xiasong Li
University of Washington
Yi Li
Jilin University
Julio Lloret-Fillol
ICIQ
Satoshi Maeda
Hokkaido University
Debabrata Maiti
IIT Bombay
Lara Malins
Australian National University
Swadhin Mandal
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
Todd Martinez
Stanford University
Carlos Martínez-Huitle
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
José Luis Medina-Franco
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Vicent Moliner
Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM)
Tim Noël
University of Amsterdam
Martin Oestreich
Technische Universität Berlin
David O'Hagan
University of St Andrews
Henrik Ottosson
Uppsala University
Zheng Ouyang
Tsinghua University
Satish Patil
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU
Sebastian Peter
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Warren Piers
University of Calgary
Seth Rasmussen
North Dakota State University
Erwin Reisner
University of Cambridge
Adrian Roitberg
University of Florida
Richmond Sarpong
University of California
George Schatz
Northwestern University
Danielle Schultz
Merck
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost
Princeton University
Thomas Snaddon
Indiana University
Miquel Solà
University of Girona
Pierre Stallforth
Hans Knöll Institute & Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Brent Sumerlin
University of Florida
Tahei Tahara
RIKEN
Ben Zhong Tang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhiyong Tang
National Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Simone Techert
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Christine Thomas
Ohio State University
He Tian
East China University of Science and Technology
Zhong-Qun Tian
Xiamen University
Alexandre Tkatchenko
University of Luxembourg
Helen Tran
University of Toronto
Christopher Vanderwal
University of California Irvine
Alejandro Vila
Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario & Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Lai-Sheng Wang
Brown University
Chu Wang
Peking University
Eranthee Weerapana
Boston College
Alison Wendlandt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Vivian Yam
University of Hong Kong
Nobuhiro Yanai
Kyushu University
Shao Q. Yao
National University of Singapore
Yan Yu,
University of Science and Technology of China
Liang Zhang
East China Normal University
Dr Jenny Zhang
University of Cambridge
Zhi-Jian Zhao
Tianjin University
Qi-Lin Zhou
Nankai University
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