Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Last updated ISSN 1549-9618
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation is published by American Chemical Society in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,500.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Enzyme Structure and Function
- Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
- Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Key facts
| Publisher | American Chemical Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1549-9618, 1549-9626 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,500 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,139 |
| Publishing since | 1964 |
| Journal website | pubs.acs.org/journal/jctcce |
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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