Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts is published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, together about 42.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

TCA publishes papers in all fields of theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry, and modeling. Fundamental studies as well as applications are included in the scope. In many cases, theorists and computational chemists have special concerns which reach either across the vertical borders of the special disciplines in chemistry or else across the horizontal borders of structure, spectra, synthesis, and dynamics. TCA is especially interested in papers that impact upon multiple chemical disciplines.TCA was founded in 1962 specifically to provide theoretical chemists with a high-quality, peer reviewed communication medium for their work. TCA publishes regular articles (Research) reporting original work. Such articles contain full details of the theory and/or computations. Research articles should report work of particular interest to specialists in the theoretical and computational chemistry fields. Examples of such work include numerical methods, new developments in wavefunction or DFT methods, parameterization and force field validation, basis set and related developments, new classical and quantal algorithms and simulation methodologies and implementations, and finally applications of new or existing methodologies to the extent that they address particularly interesting and topical chemical problems and/or break new ground in illustrating the capabilities of the method(s) examined. Manuscripts focusing on graph theoretical work, QSAR and docking studies, and routine applications of molecular dynamics, are generally judged to fall outside the scope of the journal. There is no restriction on manuscript size; brevity is encouraged insofar as scientific content allows. The TCA Brief Reports section guarantees review of manuscripts submitted for the Brief Reports section within two weeks of their receipt to meet the need for rapid publication. Brief Reports (formerly known as Letters) are normally restricted to 12,000 characters, including tables and references. In addition, up to six figures may be submitted. In response to the need for accounts that assist researchers in maintaining a perspective on important recent developments, TCA also publishes Mini Reviews, either of a coherent body of work or of an especially rapidly developing subfield of theoretical or computational chemistry. Mini Reviews (formerly known as Overviews) should summarize recent progress in a specific field and should be written in a style that addresses the broad theoretical and compu

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Chemistry, Physical

Editor-in-chief Juan-Carlos Sancho-GarciPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 7%); most named United States 11, Spain 6, Germany 4, Italy 4, Mainland China 3 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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INSPECCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar

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Impact

Impact factor

1.76LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.51LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

97LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

183OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,204OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.98OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

13.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

91LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

297,200Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Single anonymous peer review, Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1962

ISSN

1432-881X

Electronic ISSN

1432-2234

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website