Journal of Organic Chemistry

Journal of Organic Chemistry
Title	Journal of Organic Chemistry
Discipline	Organic chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Org. Chem.
Publisher	American Chemical Society
Country	United States
Frequency	Weekly
History	1936–present
Impact	4.8
Issn	0022-3263

Journal of Organic Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in Organic chemistry, affiliated with the American Chemical Society and produced in the United States. The journal issues original papers on synthesis, mechanisms, structure, reactivity, and methodology with connections to Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and industrial research centers such as DuPont, Pfizer, Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline. It serves authors and readers from institutions like University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Max Planck Society, and Tsinghua University.

History

Founded in 1936 during the interwar period by leaders connected to American Chemical Society governance and influenced by contemporaneous journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Reviews, the journal emerged amid organizational changes involving Royal Society of Chemistry and early 20th century publishing houses. Throughout the Cold War era it reflected research trends at Bell Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and collaborations with Imperial College London and University of Tokyo. During the late 20th century editors engaged with initiatives at National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and international meetings like the Gordon Research Conferences and IUPAC symposia.

Scope and Content

The journal covers experimental and theoretical contributions relevant to synthetic strategies linked to laboratories at Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, and University of Oxford. Articles include total syntheses related to natural products studied at Scripps Research Institute, organometallic transformations associated with groups at Nagoya University and University of California, Los Angeles, and mechanistic investigations comparable to work from Weizmann Institute of Science and University of Pennsylvania. Content types parallel reports in Angewandte Chemie, Tetrahedron Letters, Chemical Communications, and Accounts of Chemical Research.

Editorial Policy and Peer Review

Editorial policy reflects standards promoted by professional bodies such as the American Chemical Society, ethical frameworks of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and guidelines from funding agencies including National Science Foundation and European Research Council. Peer review typically involves anonymous referees from institutions like Royal Institution, Karolinska Institute, University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. Conflicts of interest are managed in line with practices at Nature Publishing Group and Elsevier journals, while data-sharing expectations echo policies from Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted in major services including Chemical Abstracts Service, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed Central; it is listed in databases used by researchers at Cornell University, University of Toronto, University of Sydney, and Seoul National University. Indexing facilitates citation tracking by entities such as Clarivate Analytics, bibliometrics used by Times Higher Education, and university libraries at Princeton University Library and British Library.

Impact and Reception

Impact metrics are reported by Journal Citation Reports and influence hiring and promotion panels at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and University of California, San Diego. The journal's output has shaped research agendas in medicinal chemistry at Roche, agrochemical programs at Bayer, and instrumentation developments at Bruker Corporation and Agilent Technologies. Reception in the community is often compared to high-profile outlets like Journal of the American Chemical Society and specialty titles published by Wiley-VCH.

Notable Publications and Contributions

Noteworthy contributions include landmark total syntheses tied to researchers affiliated with Scripps Research Institute and Harvard Medical School, mechanistic elucidations akin to studies from California Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich, and methodology advances related to catalysis groups at Princeton University and Stanford University. The journal has published influential papers on asymmetric catalysis comparable to Nobel-recognized work at University of California, Berkeley and on reaction mechanism discoveries associated with Max Planck Society laboratories. Several articles have been widely cited in monographs and compendia used at Oxford University Press and cited in policy reports from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief and board members have historically been drawn from leading institutions such as Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Rice University. Editorial appointments reflect networks connecting to societies like the American Chemical Society, research centers including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and international academies such as the Royal Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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