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Impact factor: 3.288*
Publishing frequency: 48 issues per year
New Journal of Chemistry is owned by CNRS and published by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Editor-in-chief: Jean-François Gérard

Indexed in Web of Science and Scopus

Scope

NJC (New Journal of Chemistry) is a broad-based primary journal encompassing all branches of chemistry and its sub-disciplines. It contains full research articles, communications, perspectives and focus articles.

This well-established journal, owned by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France, has been co-published with the Royal Society of Chemistry since January 1998.

NJC is the forum for the publication of high-quality, original and significant work that opens new directions in chemistry or in other scientific disciplines.

In addition to having a significant chemical component, work published in NJC must demonstrate that it will have an impact on areas of research other than that of the reported work.

Editor-in-Chief

Jean-François Gérard, INSA Lyon, University of Lyon, France

Associate editors

Alexander J. Andre Cobb, King’s College London

Debbie Crans, Colorado State University, USA

Jaïrton Dupont, UFRGS, Brazil

Catharine Esterhuysen, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

David Farrusseng, IRCELYON-CNRS, France

Yannick Guari, University of Montpellier, France

Hendrik Heinz, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Suman L. Jain, CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, India

Peter Junk, James Cook University, Australia

Hee-Je Kim, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

Dai-Wen Pang, Wuhan University, China

Karine Philippot, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, France

Luca Prodi, University of Bologna, Italy

Maarten Roeffaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Akhila K. Sahoo, University of Hyderabad, India

Gregory Welch, University of Calgary, Canada

Kazunari Yoshizawa, Kyushu University, Japan

Jinghua Yu, University of Jinan, China

Davit Zargarian, University of Montreal, Canada

Members

Odile Eisenstein, Consulting Editor, Universite Montpellier 2, France

Kumar Biradha, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology, India

Robert Crabtree, Yale University, USA

George Gokel, University of Missouri, USA

Mir Wais Hosseini, Universite de Strasbourg, France

Takashi Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan

Henryk Kozlowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Jean-Pierre Majoral, University of Toulouse, France

Christina Moberg, KTH, Sweden

Sijbren Otto, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Alan Rowan, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Lionel Salem, Founding Editor

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, France

Jonathan Steed, Durham University, UK

Lin Xu, East China Normal University, China

Yi-Jun Xu, Fuzhou University, China

Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

Andrew Shore, Executive Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-4144-7197

Mike Andrews, Deputy Editor, ORCID 0000-0003-3762-8523

Michelle Canning, Development Editor

Daphne Houston, Editorial Assistant

Eva Balentova, Assistant Editor

Susannah Davies, Editorial Production Manager

Paige Boxhall, Publishing Editor

Debora Giovanelli, Publishing Editor

Helen Lunn, Publishing Editor

Samuel Oldknow, Publishing Editor

Huw Hedges, Publishing Assistant

Jeanne Andres, Publisher

Article types

New Journal of Chemistry publishes:

Communications
Full Papers
Perspectives
Focus articles
Comments

Note that there are page limits for Communications and Focus articles – please see below for more details

See more information about these article types

Communications

NJC Communications are concise articles that report results of immediate interest to the chemistry community; they may be complete publications, though a subsequent paper may be justified. Communications must not exceed 4 pages in length and use of the RSC Communications template for preparing your article is strongly encouraged.

Note: Prior to 2021 (up to Volume 44) these articles are named Letter. For more information on this, see here.

Full papers

Full papers contain original and significant work that is likely to be of wide general appeal or exceptional interest in its specialised area. However, work that has appeared in print in a short form such as an NJC Communication or Chemical communication is normally acceptable.

Perspectives

Perspectives are brief reviews giving the personal viewpoint of a leading scientist in their area of research, setting it in the context of the work of others and looking forward to future developments.

In some cases, pairs of collaborating scientists from different disciplines are invited to each give their perspective on their common field of research in order to demonstrate the benefits of collaborative research and facilitate dialogue between communities.

The majority of Perspectives are invited by the editorial office, however suggestions of suitable Perspectives in the form of a brief synopsis and biography of the author, are welcome.

Focus

Focus articles centre on a specific topic, giving a personal view and a critical evaluation of the current state of knowledge. These short articles summarise the key results, the work currently being done, the challenges ahead and how the field is evolving. Focus articles should not exceed 6 pages in length and use of the RSC article template for preparing your article is strongly encouraged. Please contact the editorial office if you are interested in submitting a Focus article.

Comments

Comments and Replies are a medium for the discussion and exchange of scientific opinions between authors and readers concerning material published in New Journal of Chemistry.

For publication, a Comment should present an alternative analysis of and/or new insight into the previously published material. Any Reply should further the discussion presented in the original article and the Comment. Comments and Replies that contain any form of personal attack are not suitable for publication.

Comments that are acceptable for publication will be forwarded to the authors of the work being discussed, and these authors will be given the opportunity to submit a Reply. The Comment and Reply will both be subject to rigorous peer review in consultation with the journal's Editorial Board where appropriate. The comment and Reply will be published together.

Journal specific guidelines

The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.

All submissions to NJC must include a file of the “integrated manuscript”: this is a file with all of the tables and artwork integrated into the text at a point close to where the table/figure/scheme, etc., is first mentioned.

Tables should be complete with the table number and title above the table and footnotes below. Please place the table in the text at a point where the entire table can fit on a single page (unless the table is longer than a single page).
Figures/schemes/charts should have the number and caption below the artwork. Avoid splitting the graphic over two pages (when possible) by placing it appropriately in the text.

To avoid the shifting of inserted graphics/tables during generation of the pdf file that is read by the editors and reviewers, authors are encouraged to upload a pdf version of their “integrated manuscript” in addition to the native file.

Submissions to NJC that do not include this “integrated manuscript” file will be un-submitted, and the author will be requested to upload the “integrated manuscript” file to complete the submission.

Please note that this policy does not require authors to use the journal template for NJC article types that do not have a limit on their length (regular Papers and Perspective reviews). However, the latest journal template should be used for Communications and Focus reviews, which are limited to 4 and 6 pages, respectively.

Readership information

New Journal of Chemistry is for academic and industrial scientists in all areas of the chemical sciences.

Subscription information

New Journal of Chemistry is part of collections RSC Gold, Core Chemistry and General Chemistry

Online only 2021: ISSN 1369-9261 £2,045 / $3,441

*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)

** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2020

NJC

Pre-submission queries please contact Andrew Shore, Executive Editor

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Post-submission queries please contact Susannah Davies, Editorial Production Manager

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