Chemistry Central Journal, a journal that has served the chemistry community as a trusted resource for more than a decade, will be renamed to BMC Chemistry in January 2019. The journal will join the BMC series as its first chemistry title.
Chemistry Central Journal launched in 2007, as the flagship of BMC's spin-off imprint, Chemistry Central. This was at a formative era for OA publishing and Chemistry Central Journal was a true pioneer in open chemistry. Over its first decade, Chemistry Central Journal published over a thousand fully OA papers, and in 2017 alone, papers published in the journal were accessed more than half a million times.
The scholarly publishing world has changed a lot since 2007. There are many more journals, many more ways to publish papers, data and research, and while there is still a lot to do, OA continues to grow even outside of the disciplines where it first found a home. Chemistry Central Journal is published by Springer Nature, as part of the BMC brand of OA journals, and is leading the expansion of BMC into the physical sciences.
As BMC Chemistry, the journal will further strengthen the BMC series footprint in the physical sciences by publishing quality articles and by pushing the boundaries of open chemistry.
Its new home, the BMC series, is a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering all scientific and clinical disciplines, focusing on the needs of the research communities which they serve. It will share the BMC series ethos of presenting quality research to the community, with an emphasis on transparency and openness in both publishing and science. As such, BMC Chemistry will be well placed to continue its mission into the next decade and beyond - as a true pioneer of open chemistry.
BMC Chemistry aspires to contribute towards Springer Nature's Grand Challenge Programme with a focus on sustainability, climate change and food-energy-water nexus by facilitating research across a wide range of chemistry disciplines.
On a technical level, the journal's history will continue in its refreshed form as BMC Chemistry. The journal's rigorous peer-review and complete publication history will remain part of the journal - all previous papers will remain part of the journal and continue to be permanently and freely available to all. The journal will continue to be indexed as normal in Scopus, SCIE, PubMed and others. The journal's impact factor will continue, but will transition over a three-year period to the new title.
The journal is supported by an international Editorial Advisory Board of senior scientists and researchers that is chaired by Professor R. Stephen Berry, one of the founders and current Editor-in-Chief for Chemistry Central Journal, who is a highly respected thought leader in chemistry from the University of Chicago.
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