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The Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (JCED) publishes data on phase behavior and physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties obtained from both experiment and computation, which are viewed as complementary. JCED encourages manuscripts that report on consequential (relevant, comprehensive, and robust) data and place these data into context by addressing what can be learned from differences and similarities to prior published data on related systems. 

Examples of topics that are in-scope:

• New measurements of thermophysical/thermochemical properties for chemical systems whose compositions are known.
• New experimental phase equilibrium data (e.g., vapor-liquid, supercritical fluid, liquid-liquid, solid-solid, solid-liquid, solid-vapor, solid-supercritical fluid, and gas hydrate equilibrium).
• Thermophysical/thermochemical properties and phase equilibrium data obtained from quantum chemistry, molecular simulation, and molecular mechanics calculations.
• Comprehensive Reviews of experimental or computational techniques for thermophysical/thermochemical properties and phase equilibria and thought-provoking Perspectives on topics of current interest to the thermophysical properties research community.

Examples of topics that are NOT in-scope:

• Phase equilibrium or thermophysical/thermochemical properties of mixtures whose compositions are NOT known. Many environmental and biological samples fit in this category.
• Reaction kinetics and catalysis.
• Applications that do not measure or calculate the fundamental thermophysical properties or phase equilibria (e.g., permeabilities through membranes without measurement or calculation of solubilities and diffusivities).
• Computational approaches (including machine learning) that predict data via a correlation of molecular or other macroscopic properties.
• Materials synthesis and characterization where the phase equilibrium and/or thermophysical properties are not the main focus of the paper.

The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (JCIM) is a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers reporting new methodologies in chemical informatics and molecular modeling and its application and validation by experimental means. As a member of this community – author, reader, or reviewer -- you’ll stay abreast of advances and applications in molecular simulation, developments in multi-scale modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning models applied to chemical and biological data, computer science techniques applied to chemical problems, pattern recognition, clustering, computer-aided molecular design of new materials, catalysts, or ligands, development of new computational methods and algorithms and their implementation in software, and analysis of chemical and physical data.

• Computer simulation using molecular dynamics and free energy methods
• Machine learning models of chemical and biological data
• Combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) multi-scale simulations
• Computer-aided molecular design of new materials, catalysts, or ligands
• Development of new computational methods or efficient algorithms implemented in software
• Biopharmaceutical chemistry, including analyses of biological activity and other applications related to drug discovery 

The journal does not consider straightforward applications of molecular docking methods to a single target system without adequate experimental validation.

The Journal of the American Chemical Society, founded in 1879, is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society and the world’s preeminent journal of chemistry and interfacing areas of science. The journal considers submissions in core fields such as, but not limited to:

• Analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry
• Biological and medicinal chemistry, and biotechnology
• Sustainable and environmental chemistry
• Computational and theoretical chemistry
• Materials and nanoscience
• Energy and catalysis
• Chemical engineering
• Earth, atmospheric and space chemistry
• Chemical education

The Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation is a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers on new theories, methodology in quantum electronic structure, molecular dynamics, and statistical mechanics and/or their important applications.

Specific topics include but are not limited to:

• Advances in ab initio quantum mechanics, density functional theory
• Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations
• Ab initio dynamics for chemical reactions
• Solvation models
• QM/MM methods for complex chemical processes
• New theories for quantum computers and their chemical applications
• Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science for chemical theory and computation
• Computational chemistry packages that present innovative methods
• Design and properties of new materials and bio-molecular systems
• Novel theories and applications in surface science
• Biomolecular dynamics for protein folding/phase separation

The Journal welcomes submissions that include advances in theory, methodology, and data science with applications to compelling problems in chemistry and materials science. The Journal does not consider papers on the following topics:

Straightforward applications on only single-class systems of well-established methods, including DFT, traditional wave function theories, and molecular dynamics.

The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry publishes high-quality, cutting-edge original research representing complete studies and research advances dealing with the chemistry and biochemistry of agriculture and food. The Journal also encourages papers with chemistry and/or biochemistry as a major component combined with biological/sensory/nutritional/toxicological evaluation related to agriculture and/or food.

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

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 Chemical Education (JCE) is co-published by the ACS Division of Chemical Education and ACS Publications. Launched in 1924, JCE is the world’s premier chemical education journal.

JCE publishes peer-reviewed articles and related information as a resource to those in the field of chemical education and to those institutions that serve them. The journal typically addresses chemical content, laboratory experiments, instructional methods, and pedagogies. JCE serves as a means of communication among people across the world who are interested in the teaching and learning of chemistry. The global audience includes instructors of chemistry from middle school through graduate school, professional staff who support these teaching activities, as well as some scientists in commerce, industry, and government.

The criteria for a publishable manuscript include these areas of evaluation: scholarship, novelty, pedagogy, utility, and presentation. To be considered for publication by the Journal of Chemical Education, a manuscript must:

• Demonstrate scientific and scholarly rigor, supported by up-to-date citations to relevant literature and guided by a rationale for how the work fits into existing knowledge.
• Exhibit novelty through original scholarship or a creative or innovative practice.
• Have pedagogical content and educational relevance and insight that demonstrate a positive impact on teaching and learning while articulating audience level, use with students, and details for adopting and adapting the material, if applicable.
• Be useful to JCE readers by showing a connection to teaching and learning within the context of curricula or coursework.
• Present well-developed ideas in a comprehensive, organized discussion written in clear, concise English and making effective use of display elements (figures, schemes, tables, etc.).
• Adhere to the requirements and JCE protocols outlined in the Author Guidelines for each respective manuscript type and be submitted according to ACS publishing policies
• Be submitted electronically using ACS Paragon Plus.

JCE does not publish science research papers (or papers exclusively covering scientific content) unless they have a direct link to the teaching and learning of chemistry.

The Journal of Natural Products invites and publishes papers that make substantial and scholarly contributions to the area of natural products research. Contributions may relate to the chemistry and/or biochemistry of naturally occurring compounds or the biology of living systems from which they are obtained. When new compounds are reported, manuscripts describing their biological activity are much preferred.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Secondary metabolites of microorganisms, including antibiotics and mycotoxins
• Physiologically active compounds from terrestrial and marine plants and animals
• Biochemical studies, including biosynthesis and microbiological transformations
• Fermentation and plant tissue culture
• Isolation, structure elucidation, and chemical synthesis of novel compounds from nature
• Pharmacology of compounds of natural origin 

Manuscripts that focus on biological properties of chemically complex extracts, mixtures, or essential oils are outside the scope of the journal.

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry publishes studies that contribute to an understanding of the relationship between molecular structure and biological activity or mode of action.

Some specific areas that are appropriate include the following:

• Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel biologically active compounds, diagnostic agents, or labeled ligands employed as pharmacological tools.
• Molecular modifications of reported series that lead to a significantly improved understanding of their structure-activity relationships (SAR). Routine extensions of existing series that do not utilize novel chemical or biological approaches or do not add significantly to a basic understanding of the SAR of the series will normally not be accepted for publication.
• Structural biological studies (X-ray, NMR, etc.) of relevant ligands and targets with the aim of investigating molecular recognition processes in the action of biologically active compounds.
• Molecular biological studies (e.g., site-directed mutagenesis) of macromolecular targets that lead to an improved understanding of molecular recognition.
• Computational studies that provide fresh insight into the SAR of compound series that are of current general interest or analysis of other available data that subsequently advance medicinal chemistry knowledge.
• Substantially novel computational chemistry methods with demonstrated value for the identification, optimization, or target interaction analysis of bioactive molecules.
• Effect of molecular structure on the distribution, pharmacokinetics, and metabolic transformation of biologically active compounds. This may include design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel types of prodrugs.
• Novel methodology with broad application to medicinal chemistry, but only if the methods have been tested on relevant molecules.