Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
ACS Chemical Health & Safety
ISSN 1878-0504 · American Chemical Society · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1994
ACS Chemical Health & Safety: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.8 (journal website); transformative journal; APC about USD 4,500; 98 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ACS Chemical Health & Safety is published by American Chemical Society and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Chemical Safety and Risk Management, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Risk and Safety Analysis, together about 58.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ACS Chemical Health & Safety reports on chemical safety, security, risk assessment and management, incident case studies and hazard warnings, and other influential safety topics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Mary Beth MulcahyPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Chemical Safety and Risk ManagementChemical Engineering33.1%
- Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringEnvironmental Science12.8%
- Risk and Safety AnalysisDecision Sciences12.3%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions8.3%
- History and advancements in chemistryChemistry6.4%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering2.9%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science2.5%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.16LetPub ·
- h-index
- 45OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 269OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.39OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 19.14%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 68LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,030 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 76 | 67 | 40 |
| 2025 | 98 | 28 | 208 |
| 2024 | 87 | 26 | 376 |
| 2023 | 76 | 30 | 712 |
| 2022 | 70 | 10 | 518 |
| 2021 | 82 | 19 | 1,048 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 2 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Transformative journalLetPub
A subscription journal moving to full open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,500 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- asap articlesASAP (as soon as publishable) articles are edited and published online ahead of issue.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePreprints
- Preprints
ASAP articles are edited and published online ahead of issue. Model summary
ASAP (as soon as publishable) articles are edited and published online ahead of issue.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1994
- ISSN
- 1878-0504
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 33, Issue 4 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ACS Chemical Health & Safety
What CAS zone is ACS Chemical Health & Safety in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ACS Chemical Health & Safety is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ACS Chemical Health & Safety?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.8; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 45.
Which databases index ACS Chemical Health & Safety?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ACS Chemical Health & Safety is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is ACS Chemical Health & Safety open access, and what is the APC?
ACS Chemical Health & Safety is a transformative journal. APC about USD 4,500.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .