Nature Reviews Chemistry

Nature Reviews Chemistry is published by Springer Nature and is in Zone 1 of Chemistry in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis and Machine Learning in Materials Science, together about 19.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organic Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Nature Reviews Chemistry is an online-only journal for the weekly publication of Reviews, Perspectives and Comments in all disciplines within chemistry. Our Reviews aim to be balanced and objective analyses of the selected topic – with descriptions of relevant scientific literature and discussions that are easy to grasp for recent graduates in any chemistry-related discipline, as well as informing principal investigators and industry-based research scientists of the latest advances. Reviews should provide the authors' insight into future directions and their opinion of the major challenges faced by researchers in the field. Perspectives – as the name suggests – take a look at a topic from a slightly different angle. They may offer more personal viewpoints, explain the historical background to a topic, or discuss some of the social, ethical or environmental factors related to chemistry research in academia and industry. Our Comments address topical issues in chemistry — the aim is to cover subjects that are of interest to chemists generally that are not necessarily focussed on the results or practice of chemistry research. This may include, but is not limited to, discussions of education in chemistry and the practicalities of research outside the academic environment. Reviews, Perspectives and Comments are commissioned by the editorial team.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Chemical Engineering-General Chemical Engineering

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 10, Germany 3, United States 1, India 1, Italy 1 (17 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

50.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

67.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

13.68LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

7.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

8LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

179OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

465OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

22.99OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

2.82%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

48LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Springer Nature

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

Frequency

12 issues per year

Founded

2017

ISSN

2397-3358

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
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