Journal of the American Chemical Society
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal |
| Area of Expertise | chemistry |
| language | English |
| publishing company | ACS ( USA ) |
| First edition | 1879 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Impact Factor | 14,612 (2019) |
| Editor-in-chief | Peter J. Stang |
| editor | ACS |
| Web link | acs.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0002-7863 |
| ISSN (online) | 1520-5126 |
The Journal of the American Chemical Society , commonly associated with J. Am. Chem. Soc. or JACS for short, is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Chemical Society since 1879 . Two other journals have been included in the journal:
- in July 1893 the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry and
- the American Chemical Journal in January 1914 .
The weekly publication of original articles covers all areas of chemistry. JACS is the journal with the most citations in chemistry. The Impact Factor in 2019 was 14.612 with a five-year Impact Factor of 14.549. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor is listed thirteenth out of 177 journals in the category of multidisciplinary chemistry .
Peter J. Stang of the University of Utah has been the editor of JACS since 2002 .