Overview
Foundations of Chemistry is an international journal is an interdisciplinary forum in which chemists, biochemists, philosophers, historians, educators and sociologists discuss conceptual and fundamental issues which relate to the `central science' of chemistry. Coverage includes the autonomous role of chemistry between physics and biology and the question of the reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on a wide range of topics, including chemical models, language, metaphors, and theoretical terms; chemical evolution and artificial self-replication; the social and ethical aspects of chemistry's professionalism; modeling and instrumentation in chemistry; the nature of explanation in the chemical sciences; theoretical chemistry, molecular structure and chaos; ancient chemistry, medieval chemistry and alchemy; philosophical and historical articles; and more.
Foundations of Chemistry offers themed issues, and includes book reviews and discussion notes.
- Founding Editor
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- Eric R. Scerri
- Journal Impact Factor
- 1.8 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 1.1 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 21 days
- Downloads
- 124,590 (2023)
Latest issue
August 2024 |Special Issue on the Acidity Workshop and Varia articles
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1572-8463
- Print ISSN
- 1386-4238
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
- Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- ERIH PLUS
- Gale
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- PhilPapers
- Philosopher’s Index
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information