About Chemistry Central Journal

What is Chemistry Central Journal?

Chemistry Central Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal encompassing all aspects of chemistry.

The journal covers research in all areas of chemistry, including analytical, biological, environmental, industrial, inorganic, organic, physical and theoretical chemistry as well as materials science, and is divided into over fifty subject areas. Section Editor(s) and Editorial Board Members can be found here.

Chemistry Central Journal offers scientists the opportunity to publish their research rapidly in an open access medium that is freely available online to researchers worldwide. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are subject to rigorous peer review. Published material may include electronic supplementary material, such as animations (e.g., MOL files) or data (e.g. raw spectra) that can be downloaded for a reader's use.

Chemistry Central Journal aims to work closely with operators of open data repositories such as PubChem. Requests for collaboration are welcome, please contact the Editorial Office.

Content overview

Chemistry Central Journal considers the following types of articles:

• Research: primary research from any area of chemistry, or chemistry related/interdisciplinary area.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction.
• Database articles: describe a new database or a substantial improvement of an existing database (for example by an expansion of data to broaden the range of users, or by a major increase in functionality).
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Software articles: describe the source code for software applications, tools or algorithm implementations. Typically, an archive of the source code of the current version of the software should be included with the submitted manuscript as a supplementary file.
• Commentary articles: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. Editorial Board members and Section Editors may write such articles to highlight hot or emerging areas of research within a given field.

Peer review policies

All articles will be subject to in-house screening, following this the Section Editor(s) will assign the article to up to 4 referees. We make every effort to reach decisions within 5 weeks of submission. If the referees have requested revisions, in general, only two revised version will be considered for further peer-review.

All peer review is closed - authors are not given the names of the referees of their article. In the event that the referees do not agree, the final decision will be taken by the Section Editor(s) with the advice of the Editorial Advisory Board.

Editorial Advisory Board members, Section Editors and referees are asked to declare any competing interests they may have in reviewing a manuscript.

On occasion, authors of rejected articles will be offered the opportunity to submit their research article to one of the other journals published by BioMed Central. Where relevant, the referee reports will be passed on to the second journal, which may expedite the peer review process. Referee reports are not passed on to any journal outside of BioMed Central.

If an author is not satisfied with the decision made on their manuscript, they are welcome to contact the Editorial Office with their appeal. A second opinion on the manuscript will be sought where appropriate.

Chemistry Central Journal is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Chemistry Central Journal

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, CAS and Scopus.

Articles in Chemistry Central Journal should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Chemistry Central Journal 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Chemistry Central Journal does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Chemistry Central Journal using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Chemistry Central Journal is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Chemistry Central Journal however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Chemistry Central Journal's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Chemistry Central Journal will be available.

Chemistry Central Journal is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.