Journal Guide

Journal of Chemical Ecology is devoted to promoting an ecological understanding of the origin, function, and significance of natural chemicals that mediate interactions within and between organisms. Such relationships, often adaptively important, comprise the oldest of communication systems in terrestrial and aquatic environments. The strong interdisciplinary association that has developed between chemists and biologists has accelerated our understanding of these interactions in nature. Scientific contributions, including review articles, original research papers, rapid communications, and Letters to the Editor are welcome from either members or nonmembers of the International Society of Chemical Ecology. Manuscripts must be in English. They may include substantive observations of interactions in nature, the elucidation of the chemical compounds involved, the mechanisms of their production and reception, and the translation of such basic information into survey and control protocols. To be considered for peer

The Journal of Chemical Education (JCE) is co-published by the ACS Division of Chemical Education and ACS Publications. Launched in 1924, JCE is the world’s premier chemical education journal.

JCE publishes peer-reviewed articles and related information as a resource to those in the field of chemical education and to those institutions that serve them. The journal typically addresses chemical content, laboratory experiments, instructional methods, and pedagogies. JCE serves as a means of communication among people across the world who are interested in the teaching and learning of chemistry. The global audience includes instructors of chemistry from middle school through graduate school, professional staff who support these teaching activities, as well as some scientists in commerce, industry, and government.

The criteria for a publishable manuscript include these areas of evaluation: scholarship, novelty, pedagogy, utility, and presentation. To be considered for publication by the Journal of Chemical Education, a manuscript must:

• Demonstrate scientific and scholarly rigor, supported by up-to-date citations to relevant literature and guided by a rationale for how the work fits into existing knowledge.
• Exhibit novelty through original scholarship or a creative or innovative practice.
• Have pedagogical content and educational relevance and insight that demonstrate a positive impact on teaching and learning while articulating audience level, use with students, and details for adopting and adapting the material, if applicable.
• Be useful to JCE readers by showing a connection to teaching and learning within the context of curricula or coursework.
• Present well-developed ideas in a comprehensive, organized discussion written in clear, concise English and making effective use of display elements (figures, schemes, tables, etc.).
• Adhere to the requirements and JCE protocols outlined in the Author Guidelines for each respective manuscript type and be submitted according to ACS publishing policies

JCE does not publish science research papers (or papers exclusively covering scientific content) unless they have a direct link to the teaching and learning of chemistry.

The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (JCIM) is a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers reporting new methodologies in chemical informatics and molecular modeling and its application and validation by experimental means. As a member of this community – author, reader, or reviewer -- you’ll stay abreast of advances and applications in molecular simulation, developments in multi-scale modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning models applied to chemical and biological data, computer science techniques applied to chemical problems, pattern recognition, clustering, computer-aided molecular design of new materials, catalysts, or ligands, development of new computational methods and algorithms and their implementation in software, and analysis of chemical and physical data.

• Computer simulation using molecular dynamics and free energy methods
• Machine learning models of chemical and biological data
• Combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) multi-scale simulations
• Computer-aided molecular design of new materials, catalysts, or ligands
• Development of new computational methods or efficient algorithms implemented in software
• Biopharmaceutical chemistry, including analyses of biological activity and other applications related to drug discovery 

The journal does not consider straightforward applications of molecular docking methods to a single target system without adequate experimental validation.

The Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy publishes scientific reports relating the functional and biochemical aspects of the nervous system with its microanatomical organization. The scope of the journal concentrates on reports which combine microanatomical, biochemical, pharmacological and behavioural approaches.Papers should offer original data correlating the morphology of the nervous system (the brain and spinal cord in particular) with its biochemistry. The Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy is particularly interested in publishing important studies performed with up-to-date methodology utilizing sensitive chemical microassays, hybridoma technology, immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization and receptor radioautography, to name a few examples.The Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy is the natural vehicle for integrated studies utilizing these approaches. The articles will be selected by the editorial board and invited reviewers on the basis of their excellence and potential contribution to this field of neurosciences. Both in vivo and in vitro integrated studies in chemical neuroanatomy are appropriate subjects of interest to the journal. These studies should relate only to vertebrate species with particular emphasis on the mammalian and primate nervous systems.

The Journal of Chemical Sciences publishes original articles and rapid communications by Indian and other researchers, spanning topics in the chemical sciences. It was originally part of the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences – Part A, founded by the Nobel Laureate Professor C.V. Raman in 1934. It was renamed Journal of Chemical Sciences, matching its present-day focus, in 2004. The journal presents original research articles and rapid communications, covering all areas of chemical sciences. A significant feature is its special issues, brought out from time to time, devoted to conference symposia/proceedings in frontier areas of the subject, held not only in India but also in other countries. It is published bi-monthly by the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology(JCTB) is an international, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal concerned with the application of scientific discoveries and advancements in chemical and biological technology that aim towards economically and environmentally sustainable industrial processes. Areas relevant to the scope of the journal include: Environmental and Sustainable Technology.

The Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation is a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers on new theories, methodology in quantum electronic structure, molecular dynamics, and statistical mechanics and/or their important applications.

Specific topics include but are not limited to:

• Advances in ab initio quantum mechanics, density functional theory
• Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations
• Ab initio dynamics for chemical reactions
• Solvation models
• QM/MM methods for complex chemical processes
• New theories for quantum computers and their chemical applications
• Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science for chemical theory and computation
• Computational chemistry packages that present innovative methods
• Design and properties of new materials and bio-molecular systems
• Novel theories and applications in surface science
• Biomolecular dynamics for protein folding/phase separation

The Journal welcomes submissions that include advances in theory, methodology, and data science with applications to compelling problems in chemistry and materials science. The Journal does not consider papers on the following topics:

Straightforward applications on only single-class systems of well-established methods, including DFT, traditional wave function theories, and molecular dynamics.

The Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (JCED) publishes data on phase behavior and physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties obtained from both experiment and computation, which are viewed as complementary. JCED encourages manuscripts that report on consequential (relevant, comprehensive, and robust) data and place these data into context by addressing what can be learned from differences and similarities to prior published data on related systems. 

Examples of topics that are in-scope:

• New measurements of thermophysical/thermochemical properties for chemical systems whose compositions are known.
• New experimental phase equilibrium data (e.g., vapor-liquid, supercritical fluid, liquid-liquid, solid-solid, solid-liquid, solid-vapor, solid-supercritical fluid, and gas hydrate equilibrium).
• Thermophysical/thermochemical properties and phase equilibrium data obtained from quantum chemistry, molecular simulation, and molecular mechanics calculations.
• Comprehensive Reviews of experimental or computational techniques for thermophysical/thermochemical properties and phase equilibria and thought-provoking Perspectives on topics of current interest to the thermophysical properties research community.

Examples of topics that are NOT in-scope:

• Phase equilibrium or thermophysical/thermochemical properties of mixtures whose compositions are NOT known. Many environmental and biological samples fit in this category.
• Reaction kinetics and catalysis.
• Applications that do not measure or calculate the fundamental thermophysical properties or phase equilibria (e.g., permeabilities through membranes without measurement or calculation of solubilities and diffusivities).
• Computational approaches (including machine learning) that predict data via a correlation of molecular or other macroscopic properties.
• Materials synthesis and characterization where the phase equilibrium and/or thermophysical properties are not the main focus of the paper.

Journal of Cheminformatics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling.

Journal of Chemistry was founded in 2004 by Professor N. A. Mohamed Farook who served as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal between 2004 and 2011.