About Journals

High impact science, fastest publication times in the chemical sciences, and award-winning technology are just some of the key benefits for authors and readers of journals from RSC Publishing. In total the RSC publishes over 25 journals and other periodicals, details of which can be found on the Journals Homepage.

High impact

A continued rise in citations, impact factors and immediacy indices provides a clear indication that more researchers than ever before are recognising journals from RSC as a key resource to access the very best research.   Indeed, journals from RSC feature in the top ten rankings for impact factor, in 6 of the 7 core chemistry categories as listed on ISI.  With an average 2008 impact factor for the RSC portfolio of 4.7 - our collection is at the forefront of the chemical sciences.

Fast publication

Journals from the RSC are recognised as the fastest in the field, some papers having been published within a day of receipt, including full peer review and editing. This is made possible by a dedicated, professional staff, and truly innovative electronic workflow systems.

Cutting-edge science

The RSC journal portfolio contains market-leading titles in major area of chemistry such as PCCP (in cooperation with many other European chemical societies), Dalton Transactions, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and Analyst (which has been published continuously since 1876).

The RSC flagship journals, Chemical Science, Chemical Communications and Chemical Society Reviews offer a home to the most innovative research in all areas of the chemical sciences.

New journals at the boundaries with other areas of science serve new and emerging research communities; journal launches in recent years include Soft Matter, Molecular BioSystems, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Integrative Biology, Metallomics, Nanoscale, MedChemComm to name but a few.

Award-winning technology

Journals published by RSC benefit from an innovative approach to technology.   The pioneering introduction of enhanced HTML journal articles saw the RSC receive the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation.  

In 2009 RSC announced further investment in the future of semantic technologies, as it acquired ChemSpider.   The partnership will enable RSC to work on furthering its strategic objective of disseminating knowledge to the chemical community and advancing the chemical sciences.