Journal profile · Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Russian Chemical Bulletin
ISSN 1066-5285 · eISSN 1573-9171 · Springer US · RUSSIA · Monthly · Founded 1952
Russian Chemical Bulletin: CAS Zone 3 · Chemistry (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.56; subscription journal; median 89 days to acceptance (76 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 364 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Russian Chemical Bulletin is published by Springer US 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 Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Fluorine in Organic Chemistry and Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds, together about 20.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organic Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Publishing nearly 500 original articles on actual trends in chemistry per year, by leading Scientists from Russia and throughout the world, Russian Chemical Bulletin is a prominent international journal. The coverage of the journal spans practically all areas of fundamental chemical research including: General and Inorganic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Chemical Physics; Organic Chemistry; Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry; Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Bioorganic and Biomolecular Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Chemistry of Polymers; Supramolecular Chemistry; Nanochemistry; Materials Chemistry; Interdisciplinary Articles. The journal does not publish papers dealing with highly specialized or purely applied subjects. Papers containing material published or submitted for publication in other journals are not accepted. The Russian Chemical Bulletin publishes papers containing the results of original studies as Full Papers, Brief Communications, or Letters to the Editor. The journal also publishes Analytical Reviews (including authoґs reviews and prognostic reviews) dealing with topical problems of chemical science as well as information communications. Author´s analytical reviews should represent an integration and analysis of results of a series of studies dealing with a common topic mostly carried out by one author or a group of authors. Prognostic and analytical reviews should provide a critical consideration of the current state and prospects for development of relevant issues of chemical sciences. The size of reviews is not strictly limited. The size of Full Papers is not strictly limited: however, it is desirable that it does not exceed 16 pages of typewritten text (three figures are considered equivalent to one page). The size of a Brief Communication should not exceed eight typewritten pages. Letters to the Editor should briefly present fundamentally important scientific results requiring rapid publication. A Letter to the Editor should not exceed in size four typewritten pages. More information is available at the editor's website via the following link: http://www.russchembull.ru/
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Editor-in-chief Mikhail P. EgorovPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Inorganic and Organometallic ChemistryChemistry7.7%
- Fluorine in Organic ChemistryPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics7%
- Synthesis and Reactions of Organic CompoundsChemistry5.8%
- Analytical Chemistry and ChromatographyChemistry5.5%
- Synthesis and Reactivity of Sulfur-Containing CompoundsChemistry5.2%
- Organophosphorus compounds synthesisChemistry5.2%
- Chemical Reaction MechanismsChemistry4.7%
- Synthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic CompoundsChemistry4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Chemistry Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 3 |
| 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
Early warning / risk: CAS Early Warning Journal List: listed in the March 2026 Xinrui edition (Under Review); not listed in the other 5 editions.LetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASCurrent ContentsPublisher 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
- 1.56LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- h-index
- 36LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,945OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.37OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 56.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 353LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 226,800Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 38,788 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 187 | 0 | 17 |
| 2025 | 364 | 3 | 309 |
| 2024 | 379 | 9 | 946 |
| 2023 | 342 | 10 | 1,718 |
| 2022 | 341 | 20 | 1,930 |
| 2021 | 318 | 13 | 1,916 |
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
89 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 49 days – 132 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 155 days (76 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 270 days
- Sample
- 76 articles with submission and acceptance dates (653 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)
- 3–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
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.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Peer review
- License & copyright Copyright Information
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as (tacitly or explicitly) by the responsible authorities at the institution where th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Use of language editing services is optional and does not guarantee acceptance or peer review. Model summary
Please note that using these tools, or any other service, is not a requirement for publication, nor does it imply or guarantee that editors will accept the article, or even select it for peer review.
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 US
- Country or region
- RUSSIA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1952
- ISSN
- 1066-5285
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-9171
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 75, Issue 6 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Russian Chemical Bulletin
What CAS zone is Russian Chemical Bulletin in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Russian Chemical Bulletin is in Zone 3 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 Russian Chemical Bulletin?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.56; CiteScore 2.8, h-index 58.
How long does peer review take at Russian Chemical Bulletin?
Based on the dates recorded on 76 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 89 days (interquartile range 49–132 days); authors report an average review time of 3–8 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 Russian Chemical Bulletin?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Russian Chemical Bulletin is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Russian Chemical Bulletin open access, and what is the APC?
Russian Chemical Bulletin is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .