The ''Journal of the American Chemical Society'' (also known as JACS) is a weekly

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that was established in 1879 by the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

. 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

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. Since 2021, the

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is Erick M. Carreira (

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

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 14.4.

Editors-in-chief

The following people are or have been editor-in-chief:

References

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