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ChemComm is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant
Impact factor: 4.3*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 18 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 23 days***
Chair: Douglas Stephan
Indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) and MEDLINE
Open access publishing options available
ChemComm publishes short, exciting Communication articles from all areas of the chemical sciences. As the Royal Society of Chemistry’s most cited journal, it has become one of the most trusted journals in chemistry for 60 years.
Our publication times are amongst the fastest in chemistry. Researchers typically receive a first decision on their peer-reviewed manuscript within three weeks of submission.
ChemComm is part of the RSC’s family of high impact general chemistry journals, alongside Chemical Science and Chemical Society Reviews.
Journal scope
ChemComm publishes urgent, new research of outstanding significance and interest to experts in the field, while also appealing to the journal’s broad chemistry readership.
Our 4-page Communication articles are easy to read and digest, allowing readers to quickly and easily understand the main points of your research. Communications can report a stand-alone piece of research, or exciting results at an early stage of an investigation. They do not need to be full or extensive studies. We also publish two types of review articles: Feature Articles and Highlights.
Our scope covers all topics in chemistry, and research at the interface of chemistry and other disciplines (such as materials science, nanoscience, physics, engineering and biology) where there is a significant novelty in the chemistry aspects.
Major topic areas covered include:
- analytical chemistry
- catalysis
- chemical biology and medicinal chemistry
- computational chemistry and machine learning
- energy and sustainable chemistry
- environmental chemistry
- green chemistry
- inorganic chemistry
- materials chemistry
- nanoscience
- organic chemistry
- physical chemistry
- polymer chemistry
- supramolecular chemistry
ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award
This award recognises emerging scientists in the early stages of their independent academic careers who have made a significant contribution to the chemical sciences.
We expect to open nominations for the 2024 lectureship in Spring.
Read about eligibility, how to nominate, and see all award winners
Meet the team
Find out who is on the editorial and advisory boards for the ChemComm journal.
Chair
Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto, Canada
Associate editors
Lutz Ackermann, University of Göttingen, Germany
Davide Bonifazi, University of Vienna, Austria
Deanna D’Alessandro, University of Sydney, Australia
Fengtao Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Itaru Hamachi, Kyoto University, Japan
Michaele Hardie, University of Leeds, UK
Kim Jelfs, Imperial College London, UK
Chao-Jun Li, McGill University, Canada
David Lou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Connie Lu, University of Bonn, Germany
Marinella Mazzanti, EPFL, Switzerland
Yang Tian, East China Normal University, China
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
Akkattu T. Biju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Penny Brothers, Australian National University, Australia
Wesley Browne, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Raffaella Buonsanti, EPFL, Switzerland
Rachel Caruso, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Hong Chen, Soochow University, China.
Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Arindam Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Derrick Clive, University of Alberta, Canada
Seth Cohen, University of California, San Diego
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
Robert Gilliard Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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
Hongyan He, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Eva Hevia, University of Bern, Switzerland
Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, China
Todd Hudnall, Texas State University, USA
Ilich A. Ibarra Alvarado, National University of Mexico, Mexico
Hai-Long Jiang, University of Science and Technology of China
Ajeet Kaushik, Florida Polytechnic University
Jong Seung Kim, Korea University, Korea
Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Zongkui Kou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Mi Hee Lim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Zhaoming Liu, Zhejiang University, China
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
Alexander Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Wonwoo Nam, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Kenneth Ozoemena, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Thalappil Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Kerri Pratt, University of Michigan, USA
Yan Qiao, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
S Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge, UK
Robin Rogers, The University of Alabama, USA
Ilhyong Ryu, Osaka Metropolitan University
Paolo Samori, Université de Strasbourg, France
David Scanlon, University of Birmingham, UK
Ellen Sletten, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Smith, University of York, UK
Mizuki Tada, Nagoya University, Japan
Zhong-Qun Tian, Xiamen University, China
Tan Tianwei, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Tomas Torres, Autonomous University of Madrid
Judy Wu, University of Houston, USA
Jin Xie, Nanjing University, China
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
Yan Yu, University of Science and Technology, China
Fan Zhang, Fudan University, China
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
Jon Ferrier, Deputy Editor
Danny Andrews, Development Editor
Ershad Abubacker, Development Editor
Jade Holliday, Editorial Assistant
Helen Saxton, Editorial Production Manager, 0000-0002-1560-7396
Becky Webb, Senior Publishing Editor
Kirstine Anderson, Publishing Editor
Matthew Bown, Publishing Editor
Laura Cooper, Publishing Editor
Hannah Fielding, Publishing Editor
Anoushka Handa, Publishing Editor
Claire Harding, Publishing Editor
Alan Holder, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0001-5228-877X
Charlie Palmer, Publishing Editor
Rosie Rothwell, Publishing Editor
Donna Smith, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-1337-2327
Laura Smith, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-2976-8529
Natalie Ford, Publishing Assistant
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
Open access publishing options
ChemComm is a hybrid (transformative) journal and gives authors the choice of publishing their research either via the traditional subscription-based model or instead by choosing our gold open access option. Find out more about our Transformative Journals. which are Plan S compliant.
Gold open access
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, ChemComm charges an article processing charge (APC) of £2,750 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.
Learn more about publishing open access.
Read & Publish
If your institution has a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry, APCs for gold open access publishing in ChemComm may already be covered.
Use our journal finder to check if your institution has an open access agreement with us.
Please use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript and check you are assigned as the corresponding author; this helps us to identify if you are eligible for Read & Publish or other APC discounts.
Traditional subscription model
Authors can also publish in ChemComm via the traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Our standard licence allows you to make the accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as the green route to open access.
Readership information
ChemComm is for academic and industrial chemists in all areas of the chemical sciences.
Subscription information
ChemComm is part of RSC Gold, Core Chemistry and General Chemistry subscription packages.
Online only 2025: ISSN 1364-548X, £3,750 / $6,606
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
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