Journal of Chemical Education

Journal of Chemical Education
Title	Journal of Chemical Education
Discipline	Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Educ.
Publisher	American Chemical Society
Country	United States
Frequency	Monthly
History	1924–present

Contents

Journal of Chemical Education The Journal of Chemical Education is a peer-reviewed periodical dedicated to the dissemination of chemical pedagogy, laboratory instruction, curriculum development, and educational research connected to chemistry. It serves teachers, instructors, curriculum developers, and researchers associated with institutions such as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and California Institute of Technology. The journal interfaces with organizations including the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Foundation, and National Research Council.

History

Founded in 1924, the periodical emerged within the milieu of early 20th-century scientific professionalization alongside institutions like Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, Yale University, Columbia University, and Princeton University. Early editorial leadership drew contributors from laboratories such as Bell Laboratories, DuPont, General Electric, and museums like the Smithsonian Institution. The magazine evolved through mid-century shifts influenced by events including World War I, World War II, and the Sputnik crisis, with pedagogical responses linked to policymakers at U.S. Department of Education, Office of Naval Research, and advisory committees at Carnegie Institution for Science. During the Cold War era, contributors referenced curricula aligned with reports from National Academy of Sciences, Presidential Commission on Higher Education, and international dialogues involving OECD and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

The journal covers laboratory experiments, lecture demonstrations, instructional technology, assessment, and curriculum design relevant to institutions such as Imperial College London, University of Toronto, McGill University, ETH Zurich, and University of Tokyo. Articles connect to chemical subfields practiced at centers like Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Content types include research reports, laboratory notes, historical retrospectives referencing figures associated with Royal Institution, Montgomery Bell Academy, and Franklin Institute, as well as reviews of textbooks published by houses like McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Wiley, Pearson Education, and Springer Nature. The journal frequently intersects with accreditation bodies such as ABET, professional societies like Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, and interdisciplinary programs at Scripps Research Institute.

The editorial office coordinates with academic editors from institutions including University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Texas A&M University, and Purdue University. Editorial boards have included scholars affiliated with Colby College, Amherst College, Swarthmore College, Wellesley College, and Oberlin College. Peer review employs reviewers drawn from laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Max Planck Society, Weizmann Institute of Science, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Governance aligns with publishing standards practiced by American Chemical Society Publications and editorial policies influenced by committees at Committee on Publication Ethics and scholarly offices such as Council of Science Editors.

The periodical is indexed in major services and databases used by researchers at National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC, and Chemical Abstracts Service. Libraries within networks like OCLC, repositories at HathiTrust, and aggregators such as ProQuest and EBSCO provide discovery. Citation tracking intersects with tools developed at Clarivate Analytics, Google Scholar, CrossRef, ORCID, and institutional platforms at MIT Libraries and Harvard Library. Specialized bibliographies assembled by entities like Royal Society and American Institute of Physics also list the journal.

Noteworthy contributions have included laboratory experiment compilations, multimedia pedagogy reports, and retrospectives on chemical education history involving scholars from George Washington University, Rutgers University, Brown University, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University. Special issues have focused on themes resonant with initiatives at Human Genome Project, Materials Project, MolSSI, and computational chemistry efforts at Argonne National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. Guest editors have hailed from University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, National Tsing Hua University, Seoul National University, and Peking University.

Published monthly by the American Chemical Society, the journal offers subscription access through institutional agreements with libraries at Columbia University Libraries, New York Public Library, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Open access options align with mandates from funders such as Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, Gates Foundation, and NIH. Article processing charges and copyright policies adhere to frameworks recognized by Sherpa/RoMEO and legal offices like U.S. Copyright Office. Digital distribution integrates platforms operated by JSTOR, Project MUSE, and publisher portals used by Taylor & Francis and SAGE Publications.

Category:Chemistry journals