The ''Journal of Cheminformatics'' is a

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that covers

cheminformatics Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to the use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called "'' in silico''" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive ...

and

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. It was established in 2009 with David Wild (

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) and

Christoph Steinbeck Christoph Steinbeck (born 1966 in Neuwied) is a German chemist and has a professorship for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia. Education Steinbeck received his PhD ...

(then at EMBL-EBI) as founding

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, and was originally published by Chemistry Central. At the end of 2015, the Chemistry Central brand was retired and its titles, including ''Journal of Cheminformatics'', were merged with the SpringerOpen portfolio of open access journals. , the editors-in-chief are Rajarshi Guha (

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) and Egon Willighagen (

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). The journal has issued a few special issues ("article collections") in 2011 and 2012, covering topics like PubChem3D, the

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, and the International Chemical Identifier. In June 2021 Willighagen announced his intention to step down at the end of the year, explaining in an open letter that the publisher

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was not sufficiently

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and open. Barbara Zdrazil started as editor in chief in 2022.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 8.489. The most cited paper is on a cross-platform molecule editor and visualizer called Avogadro, which has been cited more than 6800 times as of June 2024 according to the

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References

External links

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