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2013 Impact Factors

30 Jul 2014

You know you can trust Royal Society of Chemistry journals to deliver high quality content.

Our exceptional standards are reinforced by the recently published 2013 Journal Citation Reports ®:

Individual journal Impact Factor (IF) highlights include: Chemical Society Reviews (up 22% to 30.425); Catalysis Science & Technology (up 27% to 4.760) and Energy & Environmental Science (up 33% to 15.490).

Energy & Environmental Science remains the top journal in the Environmental Sciences category, and is now in the top 5% in the other three categories where it is listed.

Natural Product Reports is #1 in the Chemistry: Medicinal category with a figure of 10.715.

Chemical Science, recently announced as moving to Gold Open Access in 2015, records an improved figure of 8.601. This is one example of how we, as a not-for-profit organisation, support and invest in the community.

Looking at all our journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category:

Of the top 20 journals in this category, six are from the Royal Society of Chemistry. No other publisher has more.
It’s the same when you look at 5-year Impact Factors: no other publisher has more in the top 20
33% of our journals have an IF above 5
83% of our journals now have an IF above 3
Three-quarters (76%) of our journals are in the top 25% of their ISI categories

More authors are choosing to publish their best work with us, and we have achieved all this while publishing more than double the number of articles in 2013 compared with 2010.

So the figures speak for themselves: our journals are the best place to publish work that advances excellence in the chemical sciences. For guaranteed impact, choose Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

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Journal	2013 Impact Factor	5-Year Impact Factor
Analyst	3.906	4.097
Analytical Methods	1.938	1.913
Catalysis Science & Technology	4.76	4.764
Chemical Communications (ChemComm)	6.718	6.485
Chemical Science	8.601	8.547
Chemical Society Reviews	30.425	33.159
Chemistry Education Research and Practice*	1.309	1.436
CrystEngComm	3.858	3.908
Dalton Transactions	4.097	3.959
Energy & Environmental Science	15.49	15.263
Faraday Discussions	4.194	4.193
Food & Function	2.907	3.132
Green Chemistry	6.852	7.081
Integrative Biology	3.996	4.455
JAAS (Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry)	3.396	3.134
Journal of Environmental Monitoring	2.109	2.133
Journal of Materials Chemistry	6.626	6.743
Lab on a Chip	5.748	6.002
MedChemComm	2.626	2.737
Metallomics	3.978	4.010
Molecular BioSystems	3.183	3.359
Nanoscale	6.739	6.925
Natural Product Reports (NPR)	10.715	10.353
New Journal of Chemistry (NJC)	3.159	2.837
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC)	3.487	3.389
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	2.939	2.793
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP)	4.198	4.023
Polymer Chemistry	5.368	5.676
RSC Advances	3.708	3.708
Soft Matter	4.151	4.429
Toxicology Researchǂ	3.273	3.273

ǂ Partial IF only

*Chemistry Education Research and Practice is listed in the Education, Scientific Disciplines category. It is the highest ranked journal devoted solely to chemistry education.

The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years.

The 5-Year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the Journal Citation Reports year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.

Data based on 2013 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Thomson Reuters, July 2014).

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Publishing Price List 2015

21 Jul 2014

We all want value for money.

Here at the Royal Society of Chemistry we’re proud to be a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. So we invest any surplus back into the community.

And as the world’s leading chemistry community, we want to make sure your researchers can access the very best content.

Our plans and pricing for 2015 show our commitment to this aim.

Key highlights and changes for 2015 include:

Chemical Science will become a Gold Open Access journal, with no article processing fees for at least two years
A new journal: Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, available free online to all existing customers (and registered individuals) until the end of 2016
Our collections continue to represent excellent discounts when compared with individual journal prices:
- RSC Gold, our most comprehensive package, has expanded to include Biomaterials Science
- We’ve increased the discount on the Core Chemistry Collection to 35%
More content: Nanoscale and Polymer Chemistry are doubling in frequency to 48 issues per year
To help smaller institutions, the flexibility of our eBook Pick and Choose model lets you choose only the books you and your researchers really need
Our annual eBook Collections are now available for all years from 2008 to 2015. We will publish a minimum of 65 eBooks in 2015

And in response to customer feedback, Methods in Organic Synthesis and Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions will merge to form Synthetic Reaction Updates – a new easily digestible, quality database with no content overlap.

If you would like to discuss your current subscriptions, or you have any questions, please contact us.

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Chemical Science moves to Gold Open Access

15 Jul 2014

Chemical Science, launched in 2010, is set to become the world’s first high-quality Open Access chemistry journal.

From the first issue in January 2015, our flagship journal will move to Gold Open Access. All content published from that date will be free to every reader.

Plus, unlike other Gold Open Access journals, we will waive all Article Processing Charges (APCs) for at least two years. So it will be free for authors too.

Why are we doing this?

First, we strongly believe that Gold Open Access is a sustainable model for the future of publishing. Chemical Science will become part of our wider Open Access offering, which also includes Gold for Gold vouchers.

Second, we’re a not-for-profit organisation and we’re passionate about promoting, supporting and celebrating chemistry. So we invest in advancing the chemical sciences, and we spread knowledge to the international community. It’s what we’ve been doing for 170 years.

By moving Chemical Science to Gold Open Access, we are giving the global community access to some of the very best research.

Read our Press Release to find out more.

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The RSC joins CrossMark

14 Jul 2014

Those who publish with us and read our journals will know that we take our responsibility as a publisher very seriously.

Now, we’re taking that responsibility one step further by improving our ability to maintain the content we publish.

CrossMark is a system provided by CrossRef, which monitors published articles bearing the CrossMark logo. If you’re connected to the internet, clicking the logo will tell you whether or not the article version you have is current, providing a CrossRef DOI link to any updates.

You will also be able to see key record information such as funding sources, researcher identifiers, related data, copyright & licensing data and publication history.

Being a member of CrossMark gives our authors extra assurance that their work’s integrity is being protected. It’s also helped to simplify the research process. If a paper bearing the CrossMark logo is downloaded or saved, the system will make sure that you’ll always have the right version, so no need for repeat searches.

The CrossMark logo will be added to all articles published in our journals from 14 July 2014. Find out more on our CrossMark Policy page.

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Celebrating the 2014 RSC Prize and Award Winners

06 May 2014

RSC Prizes & Awards

Each year the Royal Society of Chemistry presents prizes and awards to chemical scientists who have made a considerable contribution in their area of research, in industry and academia. The prizes and awards give recognition to these contributions from leading scientists.

In celebration of the 2014 RSC Prizes and Awards, we have collected together some of the exciting research recently published by the winners. This collection showcases articles authored by the winners from across the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journals portfolio, and all articles are free to access to all until June 6^th 2014.

Access the full collection

Dr Robert Parker, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry says:

“Each year we present Prizes and Awards to chemical scientists who have made an outstanding contribution, be that in their area of research, in industry or academia. We’re working to shape the future of the chemical sciences for the benefit of science and humanity and these Prizes and Awards give recognition to true excellence. Our winners can be very proud to follow in the footsteps of some of the most influential and important chemical scientists in history.”

Did you know?

An incredible 47 previous winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Awards have gone on to win Nobel Prizes for their pioneering work, including Harry Kroto, Fred Sanger and Linus Pauling. Indeed, one of the 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry Prize winners, Arieh Warshel, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year.

A full list of winners and more information about RSC Prizes and Awards can be found at: www.rsc.org/awards

Like what you read? Why not share it with your colleagues, using this convenient short link:

http://rsc.li/rscwinners-collection

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Environmental Science: Nano: issue 1 now online!

22 Jan 2014

The very first issue of Environmental Science: Nano has just been published online.

The issue features cutting-edge reports on nanomaterial interactions with biological and environmental systems as well as the sustainable design and use of engineered nanomaterials. And the great news is that all the articles are FREE to access.

Read the issue now and sign up for the e-alert to get details of subsequent issues delivered to your inbox.

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CrossCheck aids plagiarism detection

10 Jan 2014

Plagiarism.

It’s an ugly word that rings alarm bells for many in the world of scientific publishing, especially the authors. Because no-one wants their research to be copied and republished.

But with the increasing numbers of scientific articles submitted every day, how can we improve our ability to spot plagiarism and deal with it?

That’s where CrossCheck comes in.

Created by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software, it provides publishers with a mechanism for detecting plagiarism in scholarly publications. So we, and many other scholarly publishers, can compare manuscripts against published ones, using the large content repository and the iThenticate software.

You’ve always been able to trust us to publish your work quickly and efficiently, and make it available to the worldwide community. Now you know you have an additional reason to trust us to protect that work, and maintain the integrity of the scientific record for you and for future generations.

So that’s another reason to publish with us. You can hear why others have chosen us as a publisher in this video.

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About CrossRef
CrossRef is a not-for-profit membership association of publishers. Since its founding in 2000, CrossRef has provided reference linking services for over 64 million scholarly content items, including journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, reference entries, technical reports, standards, and data sets. CrossRef also provides additional collaborative services designed to improve trust in the scholarly communications process, including Cited-By linking, CrossCheck plagiarism screening, CrossMark update identification, and the FundRef funder identification service.

About iThenticate
iThenticate is the leading provider of professional plagiarism detection and prevention technology used worldwide by scholarly publishers and research departments to ensure the originality of written work before publication. iThenticate helps editors, authors and researchers prevent misconduct by comparing manuscripts against its database of over 43 billion web pages and 130 million content items, including 38 million works from 530 scholarly publisher participants of CrossCheck, a service offered by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software. iThenticate is developed by Turnitin, the leader in plagiarism and originality checking for educational institutions worldwide. The company is headquartered in Oakland, California with international offices in Newcastle, United Kingdom.

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Were you a winner at the 2013 MRS Fall meeting?

13 Dec 2013

ChemComm author Wei Luo from Oregon State University displays the copy of ChemComm in which his article appears

Thanks to everyone who visited our booth last week at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston – it was great to meet you!

We had a range of our top books and journals on display, including the very first issue of our new journal, Materials Horizons.

Congratulations to Ashok Kumar (University of South Florida), the lucky winner of our Kindle Fire prize draw.

Commiserations to everyone else who entered but we’ve got some exciting offers that we think you’ll be interested in:

Free access to Materials Horizons and Biomaterials Science

Simply fill in this short form on our Publishing Platform and you can read all issues of new journals Materials Horizons and Biomaterials Science for free until the end of 2015 and 2014 respectively. Plus, you’ll get access to all other free content across our journals and books, including a sample chapter from each book in the RSC eBook Collection.

20% off affiliate membership – with free access to Chemical Science

Join the Royal Society of Chemistry before 31 December 2013 using promotional code MRS13 and you’ll pay just £56 and receive a complimentary online subscription to our award-winning flagship journal Chemical Science.

We’ll also keep you up-to-date with the latest chemical science news from around the world with a free subscription to Chemistry World magazine.

And there are plenty more benefits to support you throughout your career.

Please stay in touch

All competition entrants are now signed up to the Materials Horizons table of contents e-alert. You can sign up to stay in touch with books and journals relevant to your field here.

Delegates were challenged by our Visual Elements Periodic Table jigsaw

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Free colour in journal articles

28 Nov 2013

Here at the Royal Society of Chemistry we are constantly looking to improve our procedures to make things easier for our journal authors.

And we are glad to say that we can now offer free colour for all images and figures in all of our journals, in print and online.

We believe this will further improve the efficiency of our submission, editing and publication processes, and enhance the readers’ experience as well.

So that’s one more reason to choose to publish with us.

View this video to hear from international researchers on why they choose Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

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SET for Britain 2014 competition

19 Nov 2013

If you’re an early-stage researcher undertaking an exciting scientific project, why not enter the 2014 SET for Britain competition for a chance to win up to £3000?

SET for Britain is an annual poster competition supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry along with other learned societies. The event aims to encourage and promote early-career scientists and engineers, as well as raising the profile of science and engineering within the Houses of Parliament.

There are five subject categories – biological and biomedical science, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics – and prizes are awarded in each category for the posters that best communicate high level science to a lay audience. The gold prize is £3,000, silver is £2,000 and bronze is £1,000.

Finalists will have the opportunity to present their research at the House of Commons Marquee on 17th March 2014, hosted by Andrew Miller MP, Chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee, where the prizes will be awarded and the overall winner will receive the Westminster medal.

The closing date for entries is Monday 20th December 2013. Find out more on our website.

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