Journal profile · Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Main Group Chemistry
ISSN 1024-1221 · eISSN 1745-1167 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) · NETHERLANDS · Quarterly
Main Group Chemistry: CAS Zone 4 · Chemistry (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.73; subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 28 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Main Group Chemistry is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) 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 Metal complexes synthesis and properties, Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications and Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds, together about 27% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Main Group Chemistry is intended to be a primary resource for all chemistry, engineering, biological, and materials researchers in both academia and in industry with an interest in the elements from the groups 1, 2, 12–18, lanthanides and actinides. The journal is committed to maintaining a high standard for its publications. This will be ensured by a rigorous peer-review process with most articles being reviewed by at least one editorial board member. Additionally, all manuscripts will be proofread and corrected by a dedicated copy editor located at the University of Kentucky.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Metal complexes synthesis and propertiesMedicine11.5%
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and ApplicationsChemistry7.9%
- Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compoundsChemistry7.5%
- Organometallic Complex Synthesis and CatalysisChemistry6.5%
- Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and CharacterizationChemistry6.4%
- Crystal structures of chemical compoundsChemistry4.9%
- Synthesis and biological activityChemistry4.5%
- Crystallography and molecular interactionsChemistry3.7%
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
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 1.73LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 19LetPub ·
- h-index
- 28OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 165OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.76OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 34LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 959 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 60 | 4 | 9 |
| 2025 | 28 | 0 | 24 |
| 2024 | 23 | 1 | 51 |
| 2023 | 35 | 7 | 214 |
| 2022 | 78 | 5 | 278 |
| 2021 | 110 | 2 | 662 |
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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted10
- communicationswe also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notesLength not stated
- detailed articlesOur journal publishes full papers and detailed articlesLength not stated
- editorialOur journal publishes full papers and detailed articles; we also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notes which constitute an account of research that …Length not stated
- full paperOur journal publishes full papers and detailed articles; we also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notes which constitute an account of research that …Length not stated
- full papersOur journal publishes full papers and detailed articlesLength not stated
- noteswe also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notesLength not stated
- rapidwe also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notesLength not stated
- reviewOur journal publishes full papers and detailed articles; we also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notes which constitute an account of research that …Length not stated
- reviewsThe editorial board also solicits requests for reviews on emergent main group developments.Length not stated
- shortwe also encourage rapid, short, communications, and notesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. Colour figures can be included in the print version of the Journal, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized/All identities visible Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manusc…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
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
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- Country or region
- NETHERLANDS
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 1024-1221
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-1167
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Main Group Chemistry
What CAS zone is Main Group Chemistry in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Main Group Chemistry 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 Main Group Chemistry?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.73; CiteScore 3, h-index 28.
How long does peer review take at Main Group Chemistry?
Authors report an average review time of over 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Main Group Chemistry?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Main Group Chemistry?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Main Group Chemistry is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Main Group Chemistry open access, and what is the APC?
Main Group Chemistry is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
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: .