ACS Central Science
Last updated ISSN 2374-7943
ACS Central Science is published by American Chemical Society in chemistry. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in ACS Central Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- History and advancements in chemistry
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Academic Writing and Publishing
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Click Chemistry and Applications
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Key facts
| Publisher | American Chemical Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2374-7943, 2374-7951 |
| Subject area | Chemistry |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,858 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | pubs.acs.org/journal/acscii |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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