Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie
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Title	Angewandte Chemie
Discipline	Chemistry
Abbreviation	Angew. Chem.
Editor	Sven Türck
Publisher	Wiley-VCH
Country	Germany
Frequency	Weekly
History	1887–present
Impact	16.2

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Angewandte Chemie is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research across the chemical sciences. It is among leading periodicals alongside Nature (journal), Science (journal), Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, and Chemistry – A European Journal. The journal has been associated with major institutions and figures such as Max Planck Society, Leopoldina, Friedrich August Kekulé, Otto Warburg, and Robert B. Woodward through publication of foundational work.

History

Founded in 1887 in Germany by Friedrich Vieweg and associates, the journal evolved alongside German chemical industry players like BASF, Bayer (company), and Hoechst. Its development paralleled milestones involving scientists such as August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Emil Fischer, Arthur Harden, and Walther Nernst. Through the 20th century the title intersected with institutions including University of Berlin, University of Göttingen, Max Planck Society, and events like World War I and World War II that reshaped European publishing. Postwar reconstruction involved publishers such as VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and later Wiley-VCH, and editorial leadership connected to figures from Technische Universität München, University of Bonn, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The journal covers experimental and theoretical work reflecting contributions from researchers at Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Caltech, ETH Zurich, University of Tokyo, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Seoul National University, and University of Melbourne. Subject areas include synthesis showcased by investigators like E. J. Corey and Ryōji Noyori, catalysis associated with Gerhard Ertl and Richard F. Heck, materials chemistry connected to George M. Whitesides and M. Stanley Whittingham, and chemical biology with links to Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Alexander Fleming, and Paul Ehrlich. The journal publishes Articles, Reviews, Communications, and Minireviews, addressing methods developed at facilities such as CERN-adjacent collaborations, national labs like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, and consortia involving European Research Council awards and National Science Foundation grants.

Published weekly by Wiley-VCH, the journal operates editorial offices in Weinheim with an international editorial board drawing members from Imperial College London, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, and Yale University. The peer-review process involves external referees affiliated with societies like the Royal Society of Chemistry and American Chemical Society as well as academies such as National Academy of Sciences (United States) and Academia Europaea. Editorial policies reflect standards promoted by organizations including Committee on Publication Ethics and directives influenced by open science initiatives from Plan S and funding agencies like European Commission and Wellcome Trust.

The journal's impact factor positions it alongside titles such as Accounts of Chemical Research and Chemical Reviews, influencing citation practices exemplified in awards like the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Prize, Lasker Award, and Royal Society of Chemistry Awards. Notable recipients publishing in the journal include laureates such as Ahmed Zewail, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Ben Feringa, Fraser Stoddart, and John B. Goodenough. Debates over editorial decisions have involved institutions like Harvard University and Max Planck Society and been covered in media outlets such as Nature (journal), Science (journal), and The New York Times when high-profile papers attracted scrutiny. The title is cited repeatedly in research agendas from Horizon 2020 and national strategies like those of China and the United States.

The journal has published landmark work connected to concepts advanced by Linus Pauling, Dorothy Hodgkin, Fred Sanger, Herbert C. Brown, and Mildred Cohn. Contributions include synthetic methods resonant with Barton–McCombie deoxygenation and Suzuki coupling developments associated with Akira Suzuki; mechanistic insights building on Kekulé's structural ideas; and materials discoveries influential to battery technology research by Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough. Biochemical and methodological advances appearing in the journal intersect with CRISPR research by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, enzyme catalysis research related to Frances H. Arnold, and supramolecular chemistry advanced by Jean-Marie Lehn and Donald J. Cram.

Indexed in major databases such as Science Citation Index, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Service, PubMed, and Web of Science, the journal is accessible through library consortia including Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft subscriptions, university portals at University of California systems, and national libraries like the British Library and Library of Congress. Access models have evolved with mandates from Plan S, funders such as Wellcome Trust and National Institutes of Health, and initiatives by Directory of Open Access Journals and CrossRef. Options include subscription access, hybrid open access, and author-pay open access routes used by researchers funded by European Research Council grants.

Category:Chemistry journals