''Chemical Science'' is a weekly

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covering all aspects of

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. It is the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. It was established in July 2010 and is published by the

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; before 2018, it was published monthly. It won the Best New Journal 2011 award from the

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. The

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is Andrew Ian Cooper (

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). In January 2015, the journal moved to an

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publishing model. It has since become a

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journal, with no charges to readers or authors.

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 2023

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of 7.6.

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