Journals growth and global impact Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry is the world’s leading chemistry community, advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. With over 51,000 members and a knowledge business that spans the globe, we are the UK’s professional body for chemical scientists, supporting and representing our members and bringing together chemical scientists from all over the world.

A not-for-profit organisation with a heritage that spans 170 years, we have an ambitious international vision for the future. Around the world, we invest in educating future generations of scientists. We raise and maintain standards. We partner with industry and academia, promoting collaboration and innovation. We advise Government on scientific policy. And we promote the talent, information and ideas that lead to great advances in science.

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We’re working to shape the future of the chemical sciences – for the benefit of science and humanity.

Our global publishing business helps us to do just that. We publish more than 40 peer-reviewed journals, two magazines, and over 1,300 books, spanning analytical science, biological chemistry, catalysis, chemical biology & medicinal chemistry, energy, engineering, environmental science, food science, general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, organic chemistry and physical chemistry.

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Our international influence Based in Cambridge, UK, our publishing operation also has offices in Philadelphia and Washington (USA), Tokyo (Japan), São Paolo (Brazil), Bangalore (India), Beijing and Shanghai (China) and Berlin (Germany).

In 2014, authors from 87 countries published their best work in our journals.

And our Editorial Board members are a truly international group.

Editorial board members by country USA France Israel Denmark Taiwan UK Australia Belgium Hong Kong Greece China Spain Singapore Argentina Other Germany India Sweden Ireland Japan The Netherlands Austria Saudi Arabia Canada Italy Brazil Norway Switzerland South Korea New Zealand South Africa

Our impact We, alongside every one of our authors, have Chemical Science, the world’s first high impact, high exacting standards, because we know that quality Open Access chemistry journal has increased by publishing the best research secures the brightest 7.1% since 2013 to 9.211. It’s also ranked 14 out of 157 in the ‘Chemistry, Multidisciplinary’ category (top 10%). future for the chemical sciences.

Once again, these exceptional standards are reinforced by Of the top 20 journals in this category, six are from the the recently published 2014 Journal Citation Reports ®. Royal Society of Chemistry, two of which are top 10. No other publisher has more. Energy & Environmental Science’s Impact Factor has increased 32.5% to 20.523, and is in the top 5% of journals 85% of our journals now have an IF above 3. in all four of its listed ISI categories. Almost three-quarters (73%) of our journals are in the top Chemical Society Reviews (33.383), Catalysis Science 25% of their ISI categories. & Technology (5.426) and Green Chemistry (8.020) all increased 9-17% in 2014. Whether it’s to publish your research, or read cutting-edge work of the highest quality, our journals portfolio should be In the first IF ranking since their launch as three separate at the top of your list. journals, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C all have an Impact Factor greater than 4, with Journal of Materials Chemistry A above 7. Our growth Articles published 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 40000 We are the fastest growing publisher in the chemical sciences. 2008

In 2014, the number of articles published in our journals 2009 increased to over 36,000 articles. 2010 In fact, we published more than three times as many articles in 2014 than we did in 2008. 2011

It’s not just the increase in global output that is making 2012 these numbers bigger: our share of the market has trebled since 2008. Other major chemistry publishers 2013 have seen their share decrease during that time. 2014

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Other 30.0% Royal Society of Chemistry 20.0% Market Share (%) Share Market Wiley

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0.0% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Includes all ACS and Royal Society of Chemistry journals and all journals in the seven core chemistry categories for other publishers.

Our global visibility Our content is downloaded by readers in almost every country in the world.

The number of downloads has almost doubled in three years. This demonstrates how our content is increasingly valued by the worldwide community.

Our outstanding international growth has been recognised by the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise International Trade 2013. Individual journal Impact Factors

Journal 2014 Impact Factor Five-Year Impact Factor Analyst 4.107 4.140 Analytical Methods 1.821 1.840 Biomaterials Science ‡ 3.831 3.831 Catalysis Science & Technology 5.426 5.525 Chemical Communications (ChemComm) 6.834 6.779 Chemical Science 9.211 9.203 Chemical Society Reviews 33.383 36.001 Chemistry Education Research and Practice* 2.091 1.832 CrystEngComm 4.034 4.022 Dalton Transactions 4.197 3.982 Energy & Environmental Science 20.523 19.198 Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts ‡ 2.171 2.171 Faraday Discussions 4.606 4.390 Food & Function 2.791 3.046 Green Chemistry 8.020 8.294 Integrative Biology 3.996 4.309 JAAS (Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry) 3.756 3.020 Journal of Materials Chemistry A ‡ 7.443 7.449 Journal of Materials Chemistry B ‡ 4.726 4.729 Journal of Materials Chemistry C ‡ 4.696 4.701 Lab on a Chip 6.115 5.775 MedChemComm 2.495 2.612 Metallomics 3.585 3.980 Molecular BioSystems 3.210 3.191 Nanoscale 7.394 7.762 Natural Product Reports (NPR) 10.107 10.545 New Journal of Chemistry (NJC) 3.086 2.986 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) 3.562 3.382 Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2.267 2.618 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) 4.493 4.219 Polymer Chemistry 5.520 5.723 RSC Advances 3.840 3.907 Soft Matter 4.029 4.289 Toxicology Research 3.983 3.983 ‡ Partial IF only

*Chemistry Education Research and Practice is listed in the Education, Scientific Disciplines category. It is the highest ranked journal devoted solely to chemistry education. A journal’s Impact Factor is an indication of the average number of citations received per individual paper in the preceding two years. The annual figure is calculated by dividing the number of citations to relevant articles in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. The Five-year Impact Factor is an indication of the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the Journal Citation Reports year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.

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