Chemical Communications
Last updated ISSN 1359-7345
Chemical Communications is published by Royal Society of Chemistry in chemistry. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Chemical Communications concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
- Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
- Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
- Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
- Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1359-7345, 1364-548X |
| Subject area | Chemistry |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 78,794 |
| Publishing since | 1965 |
| Journal website | www.rsc.org/chemcomm |
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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