Nature Chemistry is a monthly, peer reviewed

Peer review

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, scientific journal

Scientific journal

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, which is published by Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group

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. It was first published in April of 2009. The editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 is Stuart Cantrill, a full-time, professional-editor employed by Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group

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.

Aims and scope

The focus for this journal is all topics concerning chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

. Included in this topical coverage are core chemistry disciplines such as analytical

Analytical chemistry

Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials. Qualitative analysis gives an indication of the identity of the chemical species in the sample and quantitative analysis determines the amount of...

 , inorganic

Inorganic chemistry

Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...

, organic and physical chemistry

Physical chemistry

Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...

. Published research includes chemistry subject areas such as computational, theoretical , environmental , green , medicinal , nuclear , polymer, supramolecular, and surface chemistry. This journal's coverage also reaches across disciplines with subjecs like bioinorganic, bioorganic, organometallic and physical–organic chemistry. Multidisciplinary research results that have combined chemistry with other fields, such as biology, materials science, nanotechnology and physics are also part of this journal.

Publishing formats include primary research articles, reviews, news, views, highlights of notable research from other journals, commentaries, book reviews, correspondence. Other formats are analysis of issues such as education, funding, policy, intellectual property, and the impact chemistry has on society. Hence, this journal also functions as a forum.

Abstracting and indexing

Nature Chemistry is indexed in the following databases:

• Chemical Abstracts Service
  Chemical Abstracts Service
  Chemical Abstracts is a periodical index that provides summaries and indexes of disclosures in recently published scientific documents. Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent...
  
   - CASSI
  Cassi
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• Science Citation Index
  Science Citation Index
  The Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...
  
  
• Current Contents
  Current Contents
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  /Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• BIOSIS Previews
  BIOSIS Previews
  BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge suite. Content that was originally integrated from the BIOSIS company before the merger in 2004 is now part of the Web of Knowledge...