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Journal of the American Chemical Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 0002-7863Verify ISSN ↗1520-5126Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: About US$4,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 13 / 448 | 97th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 17 / 402 | 95th | Q1 |
| Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 2 / 24 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Catalysis | 8 / 74 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1879–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.
Journal of the American Chemical Society is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 13 of 448), Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 17 of 402) and Q1 in Colloid and Surface Chemistry (rank 2 of 24), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of the American Chemical Society is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 22, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.491, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 759.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of the American Chemical Society is published by American Chemical Society. Its print ISSN is 0002-7863 and its online ISSN is 1520-5126.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the American Chemical Society has an h-index of 899 and a 2-year mean of 17.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Journal of the American Chemical Society published 4,859 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (37.1%), United States (28.3%) and Japan (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 98 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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