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Publishing frequency: 100 issues per year
Indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) and MEDLINE
Chair: Douglas Stephan
ChemComm is the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal for urgent communications of outstanding significance from across the chemical sciences.
The RSC’s most cited journal, we have been one of the most trusted venues for rapid publication of short communications for more than 50 years.
ChemComm is here to support researchers throughout their careers. Whether you’re a first-time author or a senior academic you can trust us to handle your submission fairly and efficiently.
Our publication times are amongst the fastest in chemistry, and researchers typically receive a first decision on their peer-reviewed manuscript within 3 weeks of submission.
ChemComm is part of the RSC’s family of high impact general chemistry journals, alongside Chemical Science and Chemical Society Reviews
Scope
ChemComm publishes urgent research which is of outstanding significance and interest to experts in the field, while also appealing to the journal’s general chemistry readership. Our communication format is ideally suited to short, urgent studies that are of such importance that they require accelerated publication.
Work which is routine or of only moderate significance, or research which is of interest only to the specialist, is generally not suitable for publication in ChemComm.
Our scope covers the breadth of the chemical sciences, including:
- Analytical chemistry
- Biomaterials chemistry
- Bioorganic/medicinal chemistry
- Catalysis
- Chemical Biology
- Coordination Chemistry
- Crystal Engineering
- Energy
- Sustainable chemistry
- Green chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Inorganic materials
- Main group chemistry
- Nanoscience
- Organic chemistry
- Organic materials
- Organometallics
- Physical chemistry
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Synthetic methodology
- Theoretical and computational chemistry
Chair
Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto, Canada
Associate editors
Davide Bonifazi, University of Vienna, Austria
Penny Brothers, Australian National University, Australia
Rachel Caruso, RMIT University, Australia
Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington, USA
Itaru Hamachi, Kyoto University, Japan
Michaele Hardie, University of Leeds, UK
Chao-Jun Li, McGill University, Canada
Amy Prieto, Colorado State University, USA
S Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg, Germany
Yang Tian, East China Normal University, China
T Don Tilley, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sandeep Verma, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Brendan Abrahams, University of Melbourne, Australia
Polly Arnold, University of Edinburgh, UK
Louise Berben, University of California, Davis, USA
Wesley Browne, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Raffaella Buonsanti, EPFL, Switzerland
Luiz Henrique Catalani, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Lifeng Chi, Soochow University, China
Arindam Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Derrick Clive, University of Alberta, Canada
Seth Cohen, University of California, USA
Marcetta Darensbourg, Texas A&M University, USA
Jyotirmayee Dash, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Gautam R Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Abhishek Dey, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India
Joshua Figueroa, University of California, San Diego, USA
Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Sujit Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science and Education Research, India
Nathan Gianneschi, University of California, San Diego, USA
Robert Gilliard Jr., University of Virginia, USA
David González-Rodríguez, Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain
Rebecca Goss, University of St Andrews, UK
Mike Greaney, University of Manchester, UK
Shaojun Guo, Peking University, China
Michaele Hardie, University of Leeds, UK
Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, USA
Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, China
Todd Hudnall, Texas State University, USA
Ilich A. Ibarra Alvarado, National University of Mexico, Mexico
Hiroshi Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan
Jong Seung Kim, Korea University, Korea
Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mi Hee Lim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Teck-Peng Loh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tien-Yau Luh, National Taiwan University, Chinese Taipei
Doug MacFarlane, Monash University, Australia
Hiromitsu Maeda, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste, Italy
Nazario Martin, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Keiji Maruoka, Kyoto University, Japan
Alexander Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Wonwoo Nam, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Jean-Francois Nierengarten, University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
Thalappil Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge, UK
Robin Rogers, The University of Alabama, USA
Paolo Samori, Université de Strasbourg, France
Ellen Sletten, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Smith, University of York, UK
Mizuki Tada, Nagoya University, Japan
Christine Thomas, Ohio State University, USA
Zhong-Qun Tian, Xiamen University, China
Tomás Torres, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Helma Wennemers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Judy Wu, University of Houston, USA
Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Xianran Xing, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Shuli You, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Atsuo Yamada, University of Tokyo, Japan
Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Wenwan Zhong, University of California, Riverside, USA
Eli Zysman-Colman, University of St. Andrews, UK
Richard Kelly, Executive Editor, 0000-0003-2380-9315
Harriet Riley, Deputy Editor
Christian Harding, Development Editor
Harriet Kent, Editorial Assistant
Helen Saxton, Editorial Production Manager
Jason Woolford, Senior Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-7768-4645
Danny Andrews, Publishing Editor
Matthew Bown, Publishing Editor
Laura Cooper, Publishing Editor
Hannah Dunckley, Publishing Editor
Alan Holder, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0001-5228-877X
Yoriko Lam, Publishing Editor
Becky Webb, Publishing Editor
Amy Welch, Publishing Editor
David Bishop, Publishing Assistant
Natalie Ford, Publishing Assistant
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
This Lectureship recognises early career researchers, within 8 years of their PhD, who have made a significant contribution, in their independent career.
Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.
This award is presented annually. Nominations open in the autumn and close in late winter.
Nominations are welcome from anyone and are to be sent to the Editorial Office with details explaining the reason for their nomination. Self-nomination is not permitted.
Nomination details required:
- A one-page CV for the nominee, including a summary of their education, dates of key career achievements, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents, and other indicators of esteem, together with evidence of career independence.
- A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
- Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.
- A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
- The nominator and independent referees should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.
The nominations are then shortlisted by a selection panel from the ChemComm Editorial Board, with a winner chosen from this shortlist.
The recipient of this award receives: the opportunity to present at 3 different locations over a 12-month period, with at least one event taking place at an international conference, and a contribution of up to £1,500 to cover associated travel and accommodation costs. Also, a certificate and an invitation to submit a review article to ChemComm.
Latest recipient: Professor Bill Morandi (ETH Zurich)
Readership information
ChemComm is for academic and industrial chemists in all areas of the chemical sciences.
Subscription information
ChemComm is part of collections RSC Gold, Core Chemistry and General Chemistry.
Online only 2021: ISSN 1364-548X, £3,237 / $5,701
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2020
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