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Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Journal of the American Chemical Society

0002-7863

Published by: ACS Publications

https://pubs.acs.org/journal/jacsat

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Chemistry 3 4279 9689 204

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 6941
Documents by Best Scientists*: 11446
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 209
SCIMAGO H-index: 734
SCIMAGO SJR: 5.554
Impact Factor: 15.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of the American Chemical Society?

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Organic chemistry, Stereochemistry, Photochemistry, Inorganic chemistry and Medicinal chemistry. More specifically, the research on Organic chemistry in the journal is related to Catalysis. The Catalysis study featured in Journal of the American Chemical Society draws connections with the study of Combinatorial chemistry.

The in-depth study on Stereochemistry also explores topics in the intersecting field of Crystallography. Journal of the American Chemical Society investigates Crystallography research which frequently intersects with Molecule. The study on Inorganic chemistry presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Ion.

  • Organic chemistry (19.48%)
  • Stereochemistry (16.21%)
  • Photochemistry (13.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Preparation of graphitic acid (23703 citations)
  • Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers (20845 citations)
  • THE ADSORPTION OF GASES ON PLANE SURFACES OF GLASS, MICA AND PLATINUM. (14766 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of the American Chemical Society:

The main points discussed in the most cited publications deal with Organic chemistry, Catalysis, Stereochemistry, Photochemistry and Crystallography. The journal articles explore research in Polymer chemistry and overlapping concepts in Polymer and Polymerization to expand the discourse in Organic chemistry. The journal publications facilitate discussions on Catalysis that incorporate concepts from other fields like Inorganic chemistry, Combinatorial chemistry and Medicinal chemistry.

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

  • Organic chemistry
  • Enzyme
  • Biochemistry

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Catalysis, Combinatorial chemistry, Molecule, Photochemistry and Crystallography are the focal point of discussions in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Topics in Catalysis explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Electrochemistry, Ligand, Medicinal chemistry and Metal. The journal facilitates discussions on Combinatorial chemistry that incorporate concepts from other fields like Electrophile, Enantioselective synthesis, Reactivity (chemistry), Substrate (chemistry) and Aryl.

Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Molecule and the similar topic of Chemical physics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • High Efficiency (15.8%) All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Regioregular Narrow Bandgap Polymer Acceptor. (33 citations)
  • Chemo-physical Strategies to Advance the in Vivo Functionality of Targeted Nanomedicine: The Next Generation. (30 citations)
  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Guidelines, Fair and Square (29 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 Journal of the American Chemical Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Herbert C. Brown (520 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Barry M. Trost (464 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Henry Gilman (461 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roger Adams (423 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • George A. Olah (402 papers) absent 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 Journal of the American Chemical Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Northwestern University (2023 papers) published 70 papers at the last edition, 29 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (1817 papers) published 166 papers at the last edition, 13 less than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (1486 papers) published 63 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1467 papers) published 42 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (1361 papers) published 47 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, 3.48% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 26.18% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.90% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.44% of all publications and 47.48% 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

  • Operando Identification of the Dynamic Behavior of Oxygen Vacancy-Rich Co3O4 for Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Zhaohui Xiao;Yu-Cheng Huang;Chung-Li Dong;Chao Xie

    (2020)
    1263 Citations
  • Solvation Structure Design for Aqueous Zn Metal Batteries.

    Longsheng Cao;Dan Li;Enyuan Hu;Jijian Xu

    (2020)
    1253 Citations
  • Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption

    Yuhang Wang;Aoni Xu;Ziyun Wang;Linsong Huang

    (2020)
    1250 Citations
  • Tackling the Activity and Selectivity Challenges of Electrocatalysts toward the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction via Atomically Dispersed Biatom Catalysts

    Xiangyu Guo;Jinxing Gu;Shiru Lin;Shengli Zhang

    (2020)
    1035 Citations
  • Synthetic Methods Driven by the Photoactivity of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes

    Giacomo E. M. Crisenza;Daniele Mazzarella;Paolo Melchiorre

    (2020)
    1033 Citations
  • Efficient Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrate on Strained Ruthenium Nanoclusters

    Jie Li;Guangming Zhan;Jianhua Yang;Fengjiao Quan

    (2020)
    1003 Citations
  • Boosting Oxygen Reduction of Single Iron Active Sites via Geometric and Electronic Engineering: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dual Coordination

    Kai Yuan;Kai Yuan;Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht;Longbin Li;Ling Shuai

    (2020)
    972 Citations
  • Tailoring Acidic Oxygen Reduction Selectivity on Single-Atom Catalysts via Modification of First and Second Coordination Spheres.

    Cheng Tang;Ling Chen;Haijing Li;Laiquan Li

    (2021)
    897 Citations
  • Mechanism of Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxyhydroxide: Cobalt Superoxide Species as a Key Intermediate and Dioxygen Release as a Rate-Determining Step

    Aliki Moysiadou;Seunghwa Lee;Chia-Shuo Hsu;Hao Ming Chen

    (2020)
    861 Citations
  • Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks as a Tunable Platform for Functional Materials.

    Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Rui-Biao Lin;Zhangjing Zhang;Shengchang Xiang

    (2020)
    717 Citations

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