The Journal of the American Chemical Society is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society. The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (July 1893) and the American Chemical Journal (January 1914). It covers all fields of chemistry. Since 2021, the editor-in-chief is Erick M. Carreira (ETH Zurich). In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing model. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, Scopus, EBSCO databases, ProQuest databases, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 16.383. Editors-in-chief The following people are or have been editor-in-chief: 1879–1880 – Hermann Endemann 1880–1881 – Gideon E. Moore 1881–1882 – Hermann Endemann 1882–1883 – Editorial Committee 1884–1892 – Abram A. Breneman 1893–1901 – Edward Hart 1902–1917 – William A. Noyes Sr. 1918–1949 – Arthur Lamb 1950–1962 – W. Albert Noyes Jr. 1963–1969 – Marshall D. Gates Jr. 1969–1975 – Martin Stiles 1975–1981 – Cheves Walling 1982–2001 – Allen J. Bard 2002–2020 – Peter J. Stang since 2021 – Erick M. Carreira References External links Chemistry journals Publications established in 1879 Weekly journals English-language journals 1879 establishments in the United States