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ACS Central Science
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ACS Central Science

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Published by: American Chemical Society Publications

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Chemistry 47 567 578 72

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1017
Documents by Best Scientists*: 790
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 58
SCIMAGO H-index: 151
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.286
Impact Factor: 10.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at ACS central science?

ACS central science primarily tackles Nanotechnology, Catalysis, Chemical engineering, Biophysics and Biochemistry. ACS central science focuses on Catalysis as well as the interrelated topic of Combinatorial chemistry.

  • Nanotechnology (13.78%)
  • Catalysis (9.45%)
  • Chemical engineering (8.17%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Automatic Chemical Design Using a Data-Driven Continuous Representation of Molecules (1210 citations)
  • Research and Development on Therapeutic Agents and Vaccines for COVID-19 and Related Human Coronavirus Diseases (642 citations)
  • Generating Focused Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery with Recurrent Neural Networks (570 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at ACS central science:

The journal articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Nanotechnology, Catalysis, Chemical engineering, Inorganic chemistry and Molecule. Specifically, studies on Nanocrystal are prevalent in the Nanotechnology works discussed in the journal publications. The published articles explore topics in Catalysis which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Combinatorial chemistry, Photochemistry and Electrochemistry.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Enzyme
  • Gene
  • Organic chemistry

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of ACS central science are Catalysis, Nanotechnology, Computational biology, Combinatorial chemistry and Chemical engineering. Nanotechnology and Polymer are closely related fields of research discussed in it. The Combinatorial chemistry study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Covalent bond.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A Comprehensive Review of the Global Efforts on COVID-19 Vaccine Development (39 citations)
  • A Single Immunization with Spike-Functionalized Ferritin Vaccines Elicits Neutralizing Antibody Responses against SARS-CoV-2 in Mice (38 citations)
  • C-H Activation: Toward Sustainability and Applications. (33 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in ACS central science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Carolyn R. Bertozzi (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Mark Peplow (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alán Aspuru-Guzik (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Prachi Patel (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Mircea Dincă (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in ACS central science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Stanford University (63 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (62 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Northwestern University (55 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (45 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (44 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 13.94% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 34.08% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.61% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.20% of all publications and 39.11% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • GTP Cyclohydrolase 1/Tetrahydrobiopterin Counteract Ferroptosis through Lipid Remodeling.

    Vanessa A N Kraft;Carla T Bezjian;Susanne Pfeiffer;Larissa Ringelstetter

    (2020)
    1150 Citations
  • Organic Electrochemistry: Molecular Syntheses with Potential.

    Cuiju Zhu;Nate W J Ang;Tjark H Meyer;Youai Qiu

    (2021)
    775 Citations
  • C-H Activation: Toward Sustainability and Applications.

    Toryn Dalton;Teresa Faber;Frank Glorius

    (2021)
    749 Citations
  • A Perspective toward Practical Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

    Meng Zhao;Bo-Quan Li;Xue-Qiang Zhang;Jia-Qi Huang

    (2020)
    745 Citations
  • Postsynthetic Modification: An Enabling Technology for the Advancement of Metal-Organic Frameworks

    Mark Kalaj;Seth M Cohen

    (2020)
    484 Citations
  • Covalent Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Catalysis: Principle, Current Status, and Challenges.

    Jia Guo;Donglin Jiang

    (2020)
    437 Citations
  • New Redox Strategies in Organic Synthesis by Means of Electrochemistry and Photochemistry

    Jinjian Liu;Lingxiang Lu;Devin Wood;Song Lin

    (2020)
    408 Citations
  • The Future of Molecular Machines.

    Ivan Aprahamian

    (2020)
    345 Citations
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting from Air, Anywhere, Anytime.

    Wentao Xu;Omar M Yaghi

    (2020)
    332 Citations
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enzyme Immobilization: Beyond Host Matrix Materials

    Xiaoliang Wang;Pui Ching Lan;Shengqian Ma;Shengqian Ma

    (2020)
    295 Citations

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