The Journal of the American Chemical Society (also known as JACS) is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society.[1] The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (July 1893) and the American Chemical Journal (January 1914). It covers all fields of chemistry. Since 2021, the editor-in-chiefisErick M. Carreira (ETH Zurich).[2] In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing model.
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| Discipline | Chemistry |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Erick M. Carreira |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1879–present |
| Publisher | American Chemical Society (United States) |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Hybrid | |
| 14.4 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
| CODEN | JACSAT |
| ISSN | 0002-7863 (print) 1520-5126 (web) |
| LCCN | 16003159 |
| OCLC no. | 01226990 |
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The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 14.4.[8]
The following people are or have been editor-in-chief:[9]