Journal of Cheminformatics

Academic journal

Journal of Cheminformatics

Discipline| Cheminformatics
Language| English
Edited by| Rajarshi Guha, Barbara Zdrazil
Publication details
History| 2009–present
Publisher|

BioMed Central

Frequency| Upon acceptance

Open access

| Yes
License| Creative Commons Attribution

Impact factor

| 5.7 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| J. Cheminform.
Indexing
CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN| JCOHB3
ISSN| 1758-2946

OCLC no.| 320093938
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access

The Journal of Cheminformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers cheminformatics and molecular modelling.[1][2] It was established in 2009 with David Wild (Indiana University) and Christoph Steinbeck (then at EMBL-EBI) as founding editors-in-chief, and was originally published by Chemistry Central.[3] At the end of 2015, the Chemistry Central brand was retired and its titles, including Journal of Cheminformatics, were merged with the SpringerOpen portfolio of open access journals.[4]

As of 2016[update], the editors-in-chief are Rajarshi Guha (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) and Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University).[5] The journal has issued a few special issues ("article collections") in 2011 and 2012, covering topics like PubChem3D, the Resource Description Framework,[6] and the International Chemical Identifier.

In June 2021 Willighagen announced his intention to step down at the end of the year, explaining in an open letter that the publisher Springer Nature was not sufficiently FAIR and open.[7] Barbara Zdrazil started as editor in chief in 2022.[8][9]

## Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* Chemical Abstracts Service[10]
* Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences[11]
* Europe PubMed Central[12]
* Science Citation Index Expanded[11]
* Scopus[13]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 8.489.[14][2] The most cited paper is on a cross-platform molecule editor and visualizer called Avogadro,[15] which has been cited more than 6800 times as of June 2024 according to the Web of Science.[16]

## References

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1. ^ "Aims and Scope". Journal of Cheminformatics. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
2. ^ a b Peter Willett (4 August 2020). "The Literature of Chemoinformatics: 1978-2018". International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21 (15). doi:10.3390/IJMS21155576. ISSN 1422-0067. PMID 32759729. Wikidata Q98220972.
3. ^ Steinbeck, Christoph. "Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live!". SteinBlog. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
4. ^ "Chemistry Central journals to transfer to SpringerOpen". Springer_Science+Business_Media. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
5. ^ "New Editors-in-Chief for Journal of Cheminformatics". SpringerOpen blog. Springer Science+Business Media. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
6. ^ Jeremy G. Frey; Colin L Bird (September 2013). "Cheminformatics and the Semantic Web: adding value with linked data and enhanced provenance". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science. 3 (5): 465–481\. doi:10.1002/WCMS.1127. ISSN 1759-0876. PMC 3884755. PMID 24432050. Wikidata Q28660809.
7. ^ Willighagen, Egon (11 June 2021), Conflict of Interest. Or why I am stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics., doi:10.5281/zenodo.4926030
8. ^ @jcheminf (7 December 2021). "We are delighted to announce that, starting 1 January 2022, our new co-Editor-in-Chief will be @BZdrazil" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022 – via Twitter.
9. ^ Barbara Zdrazil; Rajarshi Guha (25 April 2022). "Diversifying cheminformatics". Journal of Cheminformatics. 14 (1). doi:10.1186/S13321-022-00597-5. ISSN 1758-2946. PMID 35468863. Wikidata Q111736243.
10. ^ "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
11. ^ a b "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
12. ^ "Europe PMC". europepmc.org. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
13. ^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
14. ^ "Journal of Cheminformatics". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
15. ^ Hanwell, Marcus D; Curtis, Donald E; Lonie, David C; Vandermeersch, Tim; Zurek, Eva; Hutchison, Geoffrey R (December 2012). "Avogadro: an advanced semantic chemical editor, visualization, and analysis platform". Journal of Cheminformatics. 4 (1): 17. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-4-17. PMC 3542060. PMID 22889332.
16. ^ ""Avogadro: an advanced semantic chemical editor, visualization, and analysis platform" on Publons". publons.com. Publons. Retrieved 9 June 2024.

## External links

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Scholia has a venue profile for Journal of Cheminformatics.

* Official website