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Berichte der Deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
founded in 1868 in Berlin
Journal of the Chemical Society
founded in 1878 in London
Journal of the American Chemical Society
founded in 1879 at Easton (NY)
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CHEMISTRY JOURNALS
CAS indexes about 700,000 chemistry related papers per year (2007:
816,778)
American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry are the
biggest non-profit publisher: they publish 35,000 papers per year
The remaining 94% of chemistry-related papers are published by
publishing companies (Elsevier, Wiley, Springer ecc.)
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NUMBER OF CHEMISTRY-RELATED PAPERS AND PATENTS PUBLISHED
WORLWIDE (source: CAS statistical summary)
900000
800000
papers
patents
700000
600000
500000
400000
300000
200000
100000
0
1937
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1947
1957
1967
1977
1987
1997
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1997 CHEMISTRY-RELATED PAPERS: NATIONALITY OF AUTHORS (source:
CAS statistical summary)
United States
25%
Other countries
25%
United States
Japan
Germany
China
United Kingdom
France
Russia
Canada
Italy
Other countries
Italy
3%
Canada
3%
Japan
13%
Russia
5%
France
5%
United Kingdom
6%
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China
7%
Germany
8%
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2007 CHEMISTRY-RELATED PAPERS: NATIONALITY OF AUTHORS (source:
CAS statistical summary)
United States
Japan
Germany
China
United Kingdom
France
Russia
Canada
Italy
Other countries
United States
21%
Other countries
28%
Japan
10%
Italy
3%
Canada
2%
Russia
3%
Germany
6%
France
3%
United Kingdom
4%
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China
20%
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CHEMISTRY JOURNALS
Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Angewandte
Chemie (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) are the most prestigious
chemistry journals
JACS has the highest number of citations among chemistry journals
Angewandte Chemie has a higher impact factor
Nature Chemistry, born in 2009, is growing fast in prestige (fourth IF in its
category)
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CHEMISTRY JOURNALS
“Angewandte Chemie rejects 70% of received manuscripts”
(Peter Gölitz, Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie)
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CHEMISTRY JOURNALS
journal system in chemistry has been described as a 3-layered structure
publication in Science or Nature
publication in JACS or Angewandte Chemie
publication in chemistry journals specific to a subfield of chemistry or to a
narrower specialised area
(e.g. Molecular Crystals, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Journal of
Biomolecular NMR, Applied Spectroscopy, etc.)
(Walden & Lagoze, 2009)
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TIME DELAY FROM SUBMISSION TO PUBLICATION: SOME EXAMPLES
Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7350/full/nature10137.html
Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6033/1065.full
(print issue at library on June 14th)
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/OB/c1ob05240c
(print issue at library on May 30th)
Tetrahedron Letters
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040403911007490
(issue date: 13 July 2011)
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CHEMISTRY AND GREEN ROAD
Unlike other fields of science, there is not a preprint culture in chemistry
Attempts to create it failed
Why?
An issue: ACS doesn’t publish any work already appeared as a public
preprint
An assumption: the community of chemists doesn’t usually use preprint
or unrefereed versions of papers as vehicles for sharing information.
They usually share (and make publicly available) data
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CHEMISTRY AND GREEN ROAD
Royal Society of Chemistry
Allows authors to upload their articles (publisher version) on their
personal web pages and to deposit them on institutional or disciplinary
repositories (after 12 month embargo)
American Chemical Society
Doesn’t allow any kind of self archiving
Angewandte Chemie (Wiley)
Allows self archiving just of the unrefereed version of the papers
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CHEMISTRY AND GOLD ROAD
Only a few chemistry journals are completely open access
(e.g. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, Molecules, Acta Crystallographica E. Structure Reports)
many more chemistry related journals are open access
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY JOURNALS: 2010 impact factor
impact factor
1
Chemical Reviews
33.036
2
Chemical Society Reviews
26.585
3
Accounts of Chemical Research
21.852
4
Neture Chemistry
17.927
5
Angewandte Chemie
12.730
6
Nano Letters
12.219
7
Nano today
11.750
8
Advanced Materials
10.880
9
ACS Nano
9.865
10
Energy & Environmental Science
9.488
11
Journal of the American Chemical Society
9.023
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY JOURNALS: 2010 impact factor
impact factor
1
Aldrichimica Acta
11.786
2
Advances in Organometallic Chemistry
9.692
3
Natural Products Reports
8.881
4
Biomacromolecules
5.327
5
Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
5.250
5
Organic Letters
5.250
7
Bioconjugate Chemistry
5.002
8
Journal of Organic Chemistry
4.002
9
Current Organic Synthesis
3.952
10
Organometallics
3.888
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“L’uso del solo indicatore citazionale costituisce un obiettivo facile per
possibili future manipolazioni, inducendo comportamenti fuorvianti quali
l’estensiva autocitazione e la citazione mutua all’interno di un gruppo
ristretto, non giustificate da considerazione di natura tecnica”
ANVUR, bando VQR 2004-2010
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“Si ritiene importante comunicare ai giovani ricercatori il messaggio che
esiste un livello qualitativo anche profondamente diverso tra le varie
riviste e che ci si debba cimentare con severe procedure di peer review e
avere, quale obiettivo, quello di pubblicare nelle migliori riviste del proprio
settore”
ANVUR, bando VQR 2004-2010
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