Open-access journal publishing high quality, editorially selected and peer reviewed advances in chemistry
Communications Chemistry is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the chemical sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new chemical insight to a specialized area of research. We also aim to provide a community forum for issues of importance to all chemists, regardless of sub-discipline.
Scope includes, but is not limited to, the core subject areas of analytical, inorganic, organic, physical and materials chemistry, and covers the broad spectrum of chemical research including chemical biology, catalysis, computational chemistry, energy materials, green chemistry, environmental chemistry, medicinal chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, chemical nanoscience and surface chemistry. We also consider submissions from adjacent research fields where the central advance of the study is of interest to chemists, for example biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and nanoscience.
The submission and review processes are managed by our in-house professional editors supported by our Editorial Board Members, who provide technical expertise across the breadth of the chemical sciences. We are committed to rapid dissemination of important research results. Articles are published on a continuous basis with minimal time from acceptance to publication.
Criteria for publication
To be published in Communications Chemistry a paper should meet several general criteria:
In general, to be acceptable, a paper should represent an advance in understanding which may influence thinking in the field.
Journal Information
Communications Chemistry is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the chemical sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new chemical insight to a specialized area of research. Communications Chemistry complements the other Nature Portfolio journals by providing an open access option for chemists while applying less stringent criteria for impact and significance than the Nature-branded journals, including Nature Communications.
Communications Chemistry publishes primary research Articles (both full and shorter papers), Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, and Matters Arising. A guide to our content types can be found here.
All Nature Portfolio journals, including Communications Chemistry, apply the same criteria for technical validity and adherence to ethical standards. More information about editorial policies at Nature Portfolio can be found here.
Visit the pages in this section for specific information about our aims and scope, the Communications Chemistry editors and editorial board and the benefits of open access publishing.
Abstracting and indexing
Communications Chemistry is indexed in:
Abbreviation
The correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing purposes is Commun. Chem.
Press releases
Communications Chemistry articles that are deemed especially newsworthy may be press released, to a registered list, by our press office. Journalists wishing to receive press releases while papers are still under embargo should contact press@nature.com for further information.
Our in-house editors are PhD-level scientists with research experience. All in-house editors work full-time for the journal to oversee the review process, handle manuscripts as primary editors, liaise with our Editorial Board Members and enforce journal policy. Editors also engage in other activities on behalf of the journal, such as attending and organizing conferences and meeting with scientists at their institutions.
In-house editors work closely with our Editorial Board Members to ensure that all manuscripts are subject to the same editorial standards and journal policies.
Chief Editor: Victoria Richards
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Victoria joined Communications Chemistry in September 2019. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2013, with research experience in the fields of metal-organic frameworks, surface self-assembly, molecular magnetism and main group chemistry. Victoria began her editorial career working on ChemComm and Chemical Science at the Royal Society of Chemistry, before moving to Nature Communications in 2016, where she managed the inorganic, materials and physical chemistry team. Victoria is based in the London office.
victoria.richards [at] nature.com
Senior Editor: Andrew Bissette
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Andrew joined Communications Chemistry in August 2017. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 2010 with a degree in chemistry, then obtained a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. His doctoral work concerned the role of self-reproducing lipid aggregates in prebiotic chemistry. He remained at Oxford to carry out postdoctoral research, using super-resolution optical microscopy to characterize autocatalytic reactions. Andrew is based in the London office.
andrew.bissette [at] nature.com
Senior Editor: Teresa Ortner
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Teresa joined Communications Chemistry in August 2019. She graduated from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 2016 with a doctoral degree in chemistry. Her diploma studies were on organometallic phosphine complexes for photocatalysis. In her graduate research, she synthesised oxoanionic compounds to study their crystal structures and luminescence properties. For a postdoctoral research fellowship, she moved to UC Riverside, where she worked on the solvothermal synthesis of borides. Teresa is based in the Berlin office.
teresa.ortner [at] nature.com
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