Dalton Transactions

Dalton Transactions is published by Royal Society of Chemistry and is in Zone 3 of Chemistry in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Magnetism in coordination complexes, Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications and Metal complexes synthesis and properties, together about 30.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Inorganic Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Dalton Transactions welcomes high-quality, original submissions where the advancement of knowledge in inorganic chemistry is significant. Specific guidance for some areas of our scope is given below. Solid-state inorganic materials (including nanomaterials)We encourage work in the area of solid-state, materials and nano-chemistry that includes a significant inorganic chemistry component. Contributions could include the synthesis, characterisation, and applications of new inorganic or inorganic-organic hybrid solids, together with studies of their properties. However, studies of properties of known compounds are only encouraged if there is a clear advance in the inorganic chemistry, and where this forms a major component of both the novelty and significance in the paper. CatalysisStudies that utilize well-characterized inorganic and organometallic compounds as catalysts for chemical transformations are welcome but must emphasize the advancement of knowledge in inorganic chemistry. This would include catalyst design and synthesis, structure-activity relationships and/or mechanistic studies.Work reporting new catalysts for well-studied reactions must contextualize the reported results within the state-of-the-art to demonstrate impact and advancement. Studies that generate ill-defined species in situ and/or report tables of catalytic data without appropriate comparison with existing catalysts will not be considered at Dalton Transactions. Bioinorganic and medicinal inorganic chemistryWe welcome work on model compounds of metalloenzymes and biologically active inorganic compounds, including reports on their synthesis, characterization and studies of their applications. Spectroscopic or computational work on metalloenzymes, or pure biochemical, biological, or biomedical studies on inorganic compounds are only encouraged if they clearly relate to specific properties of the metals or metalloid elements involved, and significantly further our understanding of inorganic chemistry.The same applies to papers related to the sensing and visualization of biorelevant metal ions. Such work is expected to have its focus on inorganic aspects and must completely characterize the inorganic compounds involved. Theoretical and computational studiesWe welcome studies that report new models of reactivity, selectivity, bonding or structure, or new computational methods, that have relevance for the design of subsequent experiments.This is most clearly demonstrated by the description

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear

Editor-in-chief Christine ThomasPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 25%); most named Mainland China 1, India 1, Spain 1, Australia 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

3.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.58LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

168LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

227OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

25,179OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.62OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

23.47%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

1,543LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 2 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly hardLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

17 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer review, Open peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Weekly

Founded

2003

ISSN

1477-9226

Electronic ISSN

1477-9234

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website