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The scope of ACS Earth and Space Chemistry includes the application of analytical, experimental, and theoretical chemistry to investigate research questions relevant to the Earth and Space. The journal encompasses the highly interdisciplinary nature of research in this area, while emphasizing chemistry and chemical research tools as the unifying theme. The journal publishes broadly in the domains of high- and low-temperature geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, marine chemistry, planetary chemistry, astrochemistry, and analytical geochemistry.

Among the areas the journal covers are:

Earth Interior

• High pressure experiments
• Core and mantle investigations
• Studies of planetary Interiors
• Mineral-melt phase equilibria, partitioning, and kinetics
• Mineralogy and mineral physics
• Igneous and metamorphic petrology, petrogenesis, and geochronology

Earth Surface

• Mineral-microbe-water reactions, thermodynamics, and kinetics
• Reactive transport modeling and colloid transport
• Multiscale science and scaling of geochemical and biogeochemical reactions

Atmosphere

• Atmospheric composition and reaction pathways
• Chemistry-climate interactions
• Biogeochemical cycles

Ocean

• Chemical fluxes and marine trace element chemistry
• Effects of global change on marine chemistry and the cryosphere
• Chemistry of the paleo-environment

Space

• Chemistry of planetary atmospheres and surfaces
• Investigations of meteorites and tektites
• Properties of cometary and interstellar materials
• Spectroscopy and chemistry of stars, interstellar clouds, and planetary formation

Analytical

• Analytical methods for characterization of Earth and Space materials

ACS Measurement Science Au is an open access journal publishing experimental, computational, or theoretical research in all areas of chemical measurement science. The journal welcomes work on any phase of analytical operations, including sampling, measurement, and data analysis. Papers dealing with established methods need to offer a significantly improved, original application of the method. Topics include:

• Chemical Reactions and Selectivity
• Chemometrics and Data Processing
• Electrochemistry
• Elemental and Molecular Characterization
• Imaging
• Instrumentation
• Mass Spectrometry
• Microscale and Nanoscale systems
• Omics (Genomics, Proteomics, Metabonomics, Metabolomics, and Bioinformatics)
• Sensors and Sensing (Biosensors, Chemical Sensors, Gas Sensors, Intracellular Sensors, Single-Molecule Sensors, Cell Chips, Arrays, Microfluidic Devices)
• Separations
• Spectroscopy
• Surface analysis

ACS Sensors is a peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge on all aspects of sensor science that selectively sense chemical or biological species or processes. Articles should address conceptual advances in sensing. Papers should demonstrate the use of the sensor in complex samples appropriate to the application, show it is fit-for-purpose, and exhibit a correlation of the sensor’s performance with an existing analytical method. Papers may focus on sensor development for commercialization or developing sensors that are used to provide new scientific knowledge.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Biosensors
• Chemical sensors
• Gas sensors
• Intracellular sensors
• Single molecule sensors
• Protein engineering for sensing
• Cell chips
• Arrays
• Microfluidic devices
• Clinical applications
• Environmental sensing
• Instrumental in vivo imaging
• Novel transduction methods
• Machine learning in sensing
• Surface chemistry
• Material chemistry for sensing

The Most Cited Journal in Analytical Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry is a peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge in all branches of analytical chemistry. Articles fit our scope that describe new or expanded chemical measurement approaches or that uniquely address the principles and performance of existing approaches. Articles may be theoretical or they may report experimental results. Papers dealing with established analytical methods must offer a significantly improved, original application of the method.

Subfields covered in Analytical Chemistry can include the following, as long as the manuscript focuses on improving our understanding of chemical measurements:

• Analytical operations (e.g., sampling, measurements, data analysis)
• Bioanalytical chemistry
• Bioengineering
• Chemical analysis
• Environmental sciences
• Forensics
• Materials Science
• Medical Sciences

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Chemical reactions and selectivity
• Chemometrics and data processing
• Computation, machine learning, and informatics
• Electrochemistry
• Elemental and molecular characterization
• Imaging
• Immunoassays, enzyme assays, and related technologies
• Instrumentation
• Mass Spectrometry
• Microscale and nanoscale analytical systems
• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Omics research (e.g., proteomics, metabolomics, genomics, lipidomics)
• Sensing science
• Separations
• Spectroscopy
• Surface Analysis

Chemical & Biomedical Imaging is a peer-reviewed open access journal devoted to the publication of cutting-edge research papers on all aspects of chemical and biomedical imaging. This interdisciplinary field sits at the intersection of chemistry, physics, biology, materials, engineering, and medicine. The journal aims to bring together researchers from across these disciplines to address cutting-edge challenges of fundamental research and applications. 

Chemical & Biomedical Imaging welcomes papers that:

• showcase innovations in molecular and biomedical imaging
• push the limits of chemical, spatial and temporal resolution at single molecule, single particle or single cell level
• demonstrate advances in developing new chemical probes and methodologies for biomedical applications 

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Imaging of processes and reactions
• Imaging of nanoscale, microscale, and mesoscale materials
• Imaging of biological interactions and interfaces
• Single-molecule and cellular imaging
• Whole-organ and whole-body imaging
• Molecular imaging probes and contrast agents
• Bioluminescence, chemiluminescence and electrochemiluminescence imaging
• Nanophotonics and imaging
• Chemical tools for new imaging modalities
• Chemical and imaging techniques in diagnosis and therapy
• Imaging-guided drug delivery
• AI and machine learning assisted imaging

APCs are automatically waived for all articles submitted by December 31, 2025, if accepted after peer review.

Journal of Proteome Research is a monthly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research across all aspects of global protein and metabolite analysis and function. The emphasis of the journal is on a multidisciplinary approach to the life sciences through the synergy between the different types of "omics".

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Proteomics (bulk and single cell)
• Metabolomics (bulk and single cell)
• Mass Spectrometry Imaging (proteins, peptides, and metabolites)
• Proteogenomics
• Metaproteomics
• Lipidomics
• Interactomics- Affinity purification MS, Crosslinking MS, Proximity Analysis, Two Hybrid Methods
• Protein Footprinting, 3D Proteomics
• Multi-omics system analysis
• Computational methods including bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, or other software tools to aid in data analysis and analysis of experimental systems.
• Methods for multi-omics analyses
• Development of methods and application to new areas, including studies in paleobiology, archeology, rare species (e.g., Komodo dragon), and forensic science, to name a few.

The Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, published by the American Chemical Society on behalf of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of mass spectrometry, including fields of scientific inquiry in which mass spectrometry can play a role, including both applications and fundamentals. These fields include chemical, biological, health, environmental, physical, geological, and forensic sciences, as well as omics sciences, such as proteomics and metabolomics.

The journal publishes papers on both fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry, in addition to new instrumentation and methods development. Papers that report on applications should have a principal focus on the use of a new mass spectrometry tool or approach to solve a qualitative or quantitative problem.

Fundamental and application-based subjects welcomed by the journal include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals

• Instrumentation principles, design, and demonstration
• Structures and chemical properties of gas-phase ions
• Thermodynamic properties
• Ion spectroscopy
• Chemical kinetics
• Mechanisms of ionization
• Theories of ion fragmentation
• Cluster Ions
• Potential energy surfaces

Applications

• Development or validation of new methodology
• Omics related research (e.g., proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, multi-omics systems)
• Structural elucidation
• Biopolymer sequencing
• Automation/implementation of high throughput methods
• Environmental and forensic measurements
• Computer applications, new algorithms and software