Journal profile · CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Journal of Cheminformatics
ISSN 1758-2946 · Springer International Publishing · ENGLAND · Founded 2009
Journal of Cheminformatics: CAS Zone 2 · Chemistry (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 7.94; fully open access; APC about USD 2,390; median 140 days to acceptance (103 articles, last 24 months); 197 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Cheminformatics is published by Springer International Publishing and is in Zone 2 of Chemistry in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Machine Learning in Materials Science and Protein Structure and Dynamics, together about 53.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Cheminformatics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics. Coverage includes, but is not limited to: chemical information systems, software and databases, and method development for molecular modelling chemical structure representations and their use in structure, substructure, and similarity searching of chemical substance and chemical reaction databases computer and molecular graphics, computer-aided molecular design, expert systems, QSAR, and data mining techniques
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Editor-in-chief Karina Martinez-MayorgaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Taiwan, China 3, United Kingdom 2, Spain 1, Israel 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputer Science33.2%
- Machine Learning in Materials ScienceMaterials Science13.1%
- Protein Structure and DynamicsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.5%
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry StudiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.2%
- Analytical Chemistry and ChromatographyChemistry3.8%
- Biomedical Text Mining and OntologiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.8%
- Machine Learning in BioinformaticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.7%
- Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Chemistry Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Chemistry Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Chemistry Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASDBLPPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
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
- 7.94LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 7.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 10Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.67LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 123OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 973OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 8.35OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 183LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 2,300,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,899 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 167 | 167 | 98 |
| 2025 | 197 | 197 | 1,396 |
| 2024 | 147 | 147 | 2,775 |
| 2023 | 124 | 124 | 3,280 |
| 2022 | 90 | 90 | 2,457 |
| 2021 | 100 | 100 | 6,990 |
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 Crossref · to
140 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 108 days – 174 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (103 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 169 days
- Sample
- 103 articles with submission and acceptance dates (397 in the window); the latest was accepted on
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".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 14 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 1,990 / USD 2,390 / GBP 1,690 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,390 / EUR 1,990 / GBP 1,690 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,590 / USD 2,290 / EUR 1,890 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,690 / USD 2,390 / EUR 1,990 | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
- AI and XAI in Drug DiscoveryDeadline
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted11
- brief reportBrief ReportLength not stated
- commentCommentLength not stated
- correspondenceCorrespondenceLength not stated
- data noteData NoteLength not stated
- databaseDatabaseLength not stated
- educational articleEducational ArticleLength not stated
- meeting reportMeeting reportLength not stated
- methodologyMethodologyLength not stated
- researchResearchLength not stated
- reviewReviewLength not stated
- softwareSoftwareLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use MetaboT: an LLM-based multi-agent framework for interactive analysis of mass spectrometry metabolomics knowledge graphs
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics generates complex, high-dimensional data that holds vast potential for biological discovery but remains difficult to integrate and interpret. Kn…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
Data availability strongly encouraged or required; deposit in public repositories or include in paper/supporting files. Model summary
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Open access under CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY licence. Model summary
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Journal of Cheminformatics articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribut…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
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
- Springer International Publishing
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2009
- ISSN
- 1758-2946
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Cheminformatics
What CAS zone is Journal of Cheminformatics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Cheminformatics is in Zone 2 of Chemistry, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Chemistry, Multidisciplinary / Computer Science, Information Systems / Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Chemistry. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Cheminformatics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 7.94; CiteScore 9.8, h-index 123.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Cheminformatics?
Based on the dates recorded on 103 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 140 days (interquartile range 108–174 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Cheminformatics based?
Of the 7 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Taiwan, China (3), United Kingdom (2) and Spain (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Cheminformatics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Cheminformatics is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS and DBLP; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Cheminformatics open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Cheminformatics is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,390.
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: .