Journal profile · Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Croatica Chemica Acta
ISSN 0011-1643 · eISSN 1334-417X · Croatian Chemical Society · CROATIA · Quarterly · Founded 1956
Croatica Chemica Acta: CAS Zone 4 · Chemistry (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.93; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review 6–12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 31 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Croatica Chemica Acta is published by Croatian Chemical Society and is in Zone 4 of Chemistry in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Synthesis and biological activity, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications and Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, together about 24.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organic Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA (abbrev.: Croat. Chem. Acta) is an international journal dedicated to the publication of papers from all fields of chemistry. The journal publishes four issues annually. It has been published since 1927 by the Croatian Chemical Society, with the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, and the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb as co-publishers. Editor-in-Chief: It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our longtime (2015–2025) Editor-in-Chief, Prof. emerita Olga Kronja, who passed away on November 29, 2025. Professor Kronja was an esteemed member of the Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb Acting Editor-in-Chief is Professor Vladislav Tomišić, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. All Issues published since 1950 are available online, free of charge and are archived at the Hrčak, a common platform for Croatian open access journals, managed by the University Computing Centre SRCE. CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, Essays and Data bank contributions. In the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the Editor, Book reviews, Obituaries and Croatian Chemical Society news. The Journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts Plus (CAPlus), Science Citation Index (SCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Current Contents – Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (CC), SCOPUS, EBSCOhost – Academic Search Complete, ProQuest, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and Portal of Croatian Scientific Journals (HRČAK) CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA is supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth of the Republic of Croatia.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Synthesis and biological activityChemistry8.8%
- Electrochemical Analysis and ApplicationsChemistry8.3%
- Inorganic and Organometallic ChemistryChemistry7.2%
- Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputer Science6.3%
- Analytical Chemistry and ChromatographyChemistry5.5%
- Synthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic CompoundsChemistry5.2%
- Metal complexes synthesis and propertiesMedicine4.9%
- Graph theory and applicationsMathematics4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Chemistry Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Chemistry Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Chemistry Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, EBSCOhost – Academic Search Complete, Portal of Croatian Scientific Journals (HRČAK)
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 0.93LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.2LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- h-index
- 43LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 225OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 39LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,037 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 3 |
| 2025 | 31 | 31 | 26 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 52 |
| 2023 | 29 | 29 | 68 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 69 |
| 2021 | 27 | 27 | 85 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 accepted13
- author’s reviewsCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- book reviewsIn the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the Editor, Book reviews, Obituaries and Croatian Chemical Society news.Length not stated
- conference papersCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- croatian chemical society newsIn the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the Editor, Book reviews, Obituaries and Croatian Chemical Society news.Length not stated
- data bank contributionsCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- essaysCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- feature articlesCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- letters to the editorIn the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the Editor, Book reviews, Obituaries and Croatian Chemical Society news.Length not stated
- notesCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- obituariesIn the appendix, the Journal publishes Letters to the Editor, Book reviews, Obituaries and Croatian Chemical Society news.Length not stated
- original scientific papersCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- preliminary communicationsCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
- reviewsCROATICA CHEMICA ACTA publishes Original scientific papers, Notes, Preliminary communications, Author’s reviews, Reviews, Feature articles, Conference papers, E…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access
Issues since 1950 are freely available online and archived at Hrčak. Model summary
All Issues published since 1950 are available online, free of charge and are archived at the Hrčak, a common platform for Croatian open access journals, managed by the University Computing Centre SRCE.
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
- Croatian Chemical Society
- Country or region
- CROATIA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1956
- ISSN
- 0011-1643
- Electronic ISSN
- 1334-417X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Croatica Chemica Acta
What CAS zone is Croatica Chemica Acta in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Croatica Chemica Acta is in Zone 4 of Chemistry, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Chemistry, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Chemistry. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Croatica Chemica Acta?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.93; CiteScore 1.1, h-index 31.
How long does peer review take at Croatica Chemica Acta?
Authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Croatica Chemica Acta?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Croatica Chemica Acta is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Croatica Chemica Acta open access, and what is the APC?
Croatica Chemica Acta is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .