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Impact factor: 4.6*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 11.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 23.0 days***
CiteScore: 7.8****
Editor-in-chief: Shengming Ma
Open access publishing options available
Call for papers
Organic Chemistry Frontiers is pleased to announce a call for papers for Emerging Investigator Series. This on-going series will highlight the very best work from outstanding early-career chemists, who have been identified as having the potential to influence future directions in the field.
Check the current articles in the Emerging Investigator Series.
Journal scope
Organic Chemistry Frontiers publishes high-quality research from across organic chemistry. Emphases are placed on studies that make significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry by reporting either new or significantly improved protocols or methodologies.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Organic synthesis
- Development of synthetic methodologies
- Catalysis
- Natural products
- Functional organic materials
- Supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry
- Physical and computational organic chemistry

Meet the team
Find out who is on the editorial and advisory boards for Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
Editor-in-chief
Shengming Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
Associate editors
Buddhadeb Chattopadhyay, Centre of Biomedical Research (CBMR), India
Pei-Qiang Huang, Xiamen University, China
Arjan W. Kleij, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain
Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Michito Yoshizawa, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Qian Zhang, Northeast Normal University, China
Editorial board members
Guy Bertrand, University of California, San Diego, USA
Nicolai Cramer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéralde de Lausanne, Switzerland
Louis Fensterbank, Collège de France, France
Lichang Wang, Southern Illinois University, USA
Frank Würthner, University of Würzburg, Germany
Dan Yang, Westlake University, China
Transparent peer review
As part of our commitment to transparency and open science, Organic Chemistry Frontiers is now offering authors the option of transparent peer review, where the editor’s decision letter, reviewers’ comments and authors’ response for all versions of the manuscript will be published alongside the article under an Open Access Creative Commons licence (CC-BY).
Reviewers will remain anonymous unless they choose to sign their report.
Open access publishing options
Organic Chemistry Frontiers is a hybrid 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.
Gold open access
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Organic Chemistry Frontiers charges an article processing charge (APC) of £3,000 (+ 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.
Open access agreements
If your institution has an RSC open access agreement or APCs for gold open access, publishing in this journal 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 under an open access agreement or other APC discounts.
Traditional subscription model
Authors can also publish in Organic Chemistry Frontiers 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.
Partnership information
Organic Chemistry Frontiers belongs to the Frontiers journal portfolio, an enterprising collaboration between the Chinese Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Frontiers project aims to publish a series of high impact, quality chemistry journals that showcase the very best research from China, Asia and the rest of the world to an international audience.
For each journal title, the intention is to collaborate with a top Chinese institute in the relevant field. For Organic Chemistry Frontiers, this is the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC).
The key benefits
- It is wholly society and institute owned.
- The journal is truly international, China-led.
- The highest ethical standards are upheld.
Readership information
Academic and industrial scientists from organic chemistry, natural products research, material science, catalysis, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, theoretical chemistry, and other disciplines where involve knowledge in organic chemistry.
Subscription information
Free online access to the entire 2014 and 2015 content of the journal will be provided to all institutions/organisations with registered IP addresses.
Access is available to institutions/organisations who are not Royal Society of Chemistry customers following a simple registration process.
Individuals registered for a Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing personal account will also have access to all 2014 and 2015 free access content.
Online only 2025: ISSN 2052-4129, £2,487 / $3,978
*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
****CiteScore™ 2023 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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