The ''Journal of the American Chemical Society'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the

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. The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the ''Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry'' (July 1893) and the ''American Chemical Journal'' (January 1914). It covers all fields of chemistry. Since 2021, the

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Erick M. Carreira Erick M. Carreira is a Cuban-born American organic chemist and professor at ETH Zürich. He is known for his research group's work in total synthesis projects, particularly asymmetric synthesis of complex natural products. He became the edito ...

( ETH Zurich). In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing model.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, EBSCO databases, ProQuest databases,

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, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 16.383.

Editors-in-chief

The following people are or have been editor-in-chief: * 1879–1880 –

Hermann Endemann Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Miss ...

* 1880–1881 – Gideon E. Moore * 1881–1882 – Hermann Endemann * 1882–1883 – ''Editorial Committee'' * 1884–1892 – Abram A. Breneman * 1893–1901 – Edward Hart * 1902–1917 – William A. Noyes Sr. * 1918–1949 – Arthur Lamb * 1950–1962 – W. Albert Noyes Jr. * 1963–1969 – Marshall D. Gates Jr. * 1969–1975 –

Martin Stiles Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

* 1975–1981 –

Cheves Walling Cheves Walling (1916 - June 18, 2007) was an American organic chemist, having been a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at and also the former Editor-in-Chief of ''Journal of the American Chemical Society''. He was also a Fellow of the National Acad ...

* 1982–2001 – Allen J. Bard * 2002–2020 – Peter J. Stang * since 2021 –

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Journal Of The American Chemical Society * Chemistry journals Publications established in 1879 Weekly journals English-language journals 1879 establishments in the United States