''MedChemComm'' (in full: ''Medicinal Chemistry Communications'') is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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publishing
original (primary) research and
review articles
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on all aspects of
medicinal chemistry
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, including
drug discovery
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,
pharmacology
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and
pharmaceutical chemistry
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. Until December 2019, it was published monthly by the
Royal Society of Chemistry
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in partnership with the
European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
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, of which it was the official journal. Authors can elect to have accepted articles published as
open access
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. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2014
impact factor
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of 2.495, ranking it 27th out of 59 journals in the category "Chemistry, Medicinal"
[ ] and 163 out of 289 journals in the category "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology".
[ ]
The
editor-in-chief
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is Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna, Austria).
As of January 1, 2020 - the journal is now called RSC Medicinal Chemistry and continues to be published monthly under this new name.
Article types
''MedChemComm'' publishes Research Articles (original scientific work, usually between 4-10 pages in length) and Reviews (critical analyses of specialist areas).
References
External links
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Medicinal chemistry journals
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Publications established in 2010
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