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Journals and Articles
Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
The Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry provides a perspective on the field of analytical chemistry. The journal draws from disciplines as diverse as biology, physics, and engineering, with analytical chemistry as the unifying theme.
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering aims to provide a perspective on the broad field of chemical (and related) engineering. It addresses advances in applied chemistry and biology, with a focus on concepts, old and new materials, and/or processes.
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
The Annual Review of Physical Chemistry covers significant developments in the field of physical chemistry, including biophysical chemistry, chemical kinetics, colloids, electrochemistry, geochemistry and cosmochemistry, chemistry of atmosphere and climate, laser chemistry and ultrafast processes, the liquid state, magnetic resonance, physical organic chemistry, polymers and macromolecules, and more.
American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society (ACS) publishes 87 core chemistry journals and these journals cover all main branches of chemical sciences, including organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, environmental, medicinal chemistry, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Science Direct
ScienceDirect, operated by Elsevier, publishes 144 core chemistry journals and these journals cover all major branches including organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, materials, theoretical, industrial, and environmental chemistry, as well as multidisciplinary and applied subfields.
Springer Nature
Springer Nature publishes a substantial portfolio of chemistry journals, with approximately 126 titled chemistry journals available in 2025.
Wiley
Wiley publishes a robust collection of approximately 96 chemistry journals as of 2025, making it one of the leading international publishers in this field.
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis publishes approximately 50 peer-reviewed chemistry journals as of 2025, covering a diverse range of topics in the chemical sciences.
Bentham Science
Bentham Science publishes 13 dedicated chemistry journals as of 2025, focusing on diverse and highly specialized areas within chemical sciences. These journals address topics in medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, natural products, chemical biology, drug design, and related subfields.
Open Access eBooks
Open Textbook Library: Chemistry Collection
BCcampus Open Education hosts and maintains the B.C. Open Textbook Collection which contains hundreds of high quality resources selected for post-secondary curricula in British Columbia and Canada.
BC Campus Open Textbooks: Chemistry
BCcampus Open Education hosts and maintains the B.C. Open Textbook Collection which contains hundreds of high quality resources selected for post-secondary curricula in British Columbia and Canada.
OER Commons: Chemistry
OER Commons, created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources and other freely available instructional materials.
MERLOT: Chemistry
MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an online repository and international consortium. MERLOT partners and members are devoted to identifying, peer reviewing, organizing and making available online learning resources in a range of academic disciplines.
MIT Open Courseware: Chemistry
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
Open Access Databases
PubChem
PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
CTD is a robust, publicly available database that aims to advance understanding about how environmental exposures affect human health. It provides manually curated information about chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene–disease relationships. These data are integrated with functional and pathway data to aid in development of hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying environmentally influenced diseases.
Open Access Journals
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ includes over 14,000 journals and over 4.6 million articles available from over 125 countries.
Royal Society of Chemistry Open Access Journals
RSC currently publishes 10 OA journals, including their flagship title "Chemical Science".
Theses and Dissertations
OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations)
OATD.org is a global indexing service for open access graduate theses and dissertations. It aggregates metadata from over 1,100 institutions and currently indexes more than 7 million records.
NDLTD Global ETD Search
Hosted by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, this portal allows free, worldwide search and access to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Open Dissertations (EBSCO)
EBSCO Open Dissertations expands the availability and visibility of electronic theses and dissertations. It includes American Doctoral Dissertations and records from 1955 to present, facilitating discovery and citation in institutional repositories for global students and researchers.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest offers one of the largest commercial collections of dissertations and theses worldwide, with millions of records across disciplines.
ShodhGangotri (INFLIBNET)
ShodhGangotri is an INFLIBNET initiative hosting synopses and research proposals submitted by Indian scholars before starting their PhD or research work. It reveals ongoing research topics and directions in India, helping avoid duplication and fostering scholarly collaboration.
ShodhGanga (INFLIBNET)
ShodhGanga is the companion repository that collects completed theses and dissertations from Indian universities.
arXiv / Preprint Server
ChemRxiv
ChemRxiv provides pre-prints of chemistry articles before they are published in peer-reviewed journals. 2017-present.
Patents
US PTO Patent Search
The US Patent and Trademark Office's databases allow free searching and downloading of full text U.S. patents since 1976 and PDF page images since 1790, plus published applications since 2001.
pat2pdf
If you have a patent number, this is a quick and easy shortcut to fetching PDF files of all U.S. patents from the USPTO site without actually going there.
Google Patent Search
Search and retrieve full text of all U.S. patents since 1790 and published applications since 2001.
Espacenet
European Patent Office search site for patents and applications: EP, WIPO/PCT, US, GB, FR, DE, JP, and over 70 countries. You can save PDFs of available documents up to a certain page limit. This is the site SciFinder links to for non-U.S. patents.
Indian Patent
Chemical Properties & Toxicities
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free, online chemical database offering access to physical and chemical properties, molecular structure, spectral data, synthetic methods, safety information, and nomenclature for almost 25 million unique chemical compounds sourced and linked to almost 400 separate data sources on the Web. (Description from ACS Publications).
ChemView
This open database provides information on chemical health and safety data received by the US EPA and EPA's assessments and regulatory actions for specific chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). ChemView contains no confidential business information (CBI).
The Materials Project Molecular Database
Powered by open source software, search for molecular properties, computed structures, and find articles citing the chosen molecular structure.
NIST Chemistry Web Book
The Web Book provides chemical and physical properties data for atoms, molecules, ions, and other chemical species. Searching is available by direct search for a particular substance, or indirectly through related properties data.
PubChem
This open database maintained by the National Institutes of Health contains information on "chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others".
Table of Physical & Chemical Constants
Formerly Kaye & Laby, now by the UK National Physical Laboratory, this resource is available online for free. Thermodynamic, electrical, mechanical, acoustical data are just some of the types of data. All charts, tables, formulas, and graphs are included (Currano & Roth, 2014, p. 162).
Thermodex
A finding aid for thermodynamic and physical properties data, mostly in print, compiled by the University of Texas at Austin Library. It is a good starting place for suggestions for properties data resources.
Virtual Labs and Simulations
Virtual Chemistry Lab
Highly reviewed by MERLOT peers - "Here's your chance to mix chemicals without wearing safety goggles. You won't spill any acid on the spectrometer in this lab. Choose solutions from the vast database and mix 'em together till the cloned cows come home. Marvel as the chemical solutions react in real time.
Lab exchange
ChemCollective: Virtual Labs
The Virtual Lab is an online simulation of a chemistry lab. It is designed to help students link chemical computations with authentic laboratory chemistry.
Bibliographical and Citation Databases
Dimensions.ai
Developed by Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd., Dimensions is an integrated research information platform that links publications, grants, patents, datasets, and clinical trials, providing both discovery and analytics capabilities.
Google Scholar
A freely accessible academic search engine indexing scholarly articles, theses, books, conference papers, and patents across disciplines. It offers citation tracking and author profiles to aid research visibility.
Journals Ranking
Clarivate Master Journal List (MJL)
The Clarivate MJL is an authoritative directory of peer-reviewed journals that are indexed in the Web of Science. It enables researchers to search and verify journals by discipline, publisher, ISSN, impact metrics, and coverage history. Inclusion in this list signifies adherence to high editorial standards, international peer review, and robust citation performance.
Scopus
Scopus is a comprehensive subscription-based abstract and citation database curated by Elsevier. It indexes peer-reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents across science, technology, medicine, social science, and the arts and humanities. Scopus is widely used for literature discovery, research analytics, citation tracking, author profiling, and journal evaluation via CiteScore, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank), and SNIP metrics.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)
SCImago is a free online platform that provides journal and country rankings derived from Scopus data. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a metric reflecting the scientific influence of journals by accounting for both the number of citations and the prestige of the citing journals. Journals and research institutions can be compared using filters for discipline, region, and metric values, supporting bibliometric and impact analysis.
Research Tools
Literature Review Tools
Connected Papers
Developed by Connected Papers Ltd., this tool helps researchers explore and visualize relationships between academic papers. It generates a graph of related literature based on co-citation and similarity analysis, enabling efficient literature discovery.
Research Rabbit
Developed by ResearchRabbit, Inc., Research Rabbit is a literature discovery and visualization platform that helps track research topics, authors, and papers over time. It provides personalized recommendations and collaborative research features.
Litmaps
Developed by Litmaps Ltd., Litmaps enables researchers to visualize citation networks, track the evolution of ideas, and discover new relevant literature through interactive mapping of academic publications.
Reference Management Tool
Mendeley
Developed by Elsevier, Mendeley is a reference manager and academic social network that helps researchers organize citations, collaborate online, and discover research. It offers citation styles, PDF annotation, and cloud synchronization.
Statistical Analysis Tools
JASP
Developed by the JASP Team at the University of Amsterdam, JASP is an open-source statistical software that provides both classical and Bayesian analysis. Its intuitive interface is designed to make advanced statistical methods accessible to researchers.
PSPP
Developed by the GNU Project, PSPP is a free, open-source alternative to SPSS for statistical analysis. It supports descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests, and can handle large datasets efficiently.
Academic Writing Tool
Overleaf
Overleaf is a collaborative online LaTeX editor designed for scientific and technical writing, enabling users to easily create, format, and share documents for research, learning, and publication and access the packages for chemistry.
Journal Ranking in Google Scholar
ExCITATION
ExCITATION is a browser extension for Google Scholar designed to help academics and researchers quickly identify leading journals and important studies by providing journal rankings, citation sorting, and instant abstract previews.
SDG Mapping Tool
KNOWSDGS
The KNOWSDGS SDG mapping tool is an advanced platform created by the EU's Joint Research Centre to identify, map, and analyze research and policy connections to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
Social Networking site
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a commercial social networking platform specifically designed for scientists and researchers to share academic papers, ask and answer research-related questions, and find collaborators worldwide. Founded in 2008, it has grown to host over 150 million publication pages and connect more than 20 million researchers. Researchers create profiles to showcase their work, share full-text articles, and track the impact of their research through metrics like reads and citations. The platform also includes a Q&A knowledgebase for scholarly discussions.
Data Visualization Tools
VOSviewer
Developed by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, VOSviewer is a software tool for creating and visualizing bibliometric networks. It is widely used for mapping co-authorship, citation, and keyword networks in research analysis.
Bibliometrix
An R-based open-source tool for comprehensive bibliometric and scientometric analysis. It supports data import from major databases like Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed, and offers statistical, network, and thematic mapping functionalities.
CiteSpace
A Java-based application for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature. CiteSpace is used for detecting emerging topics, mapping knowledge domains, and identifying critical articles in a research field.
Research Metrics Tools
CiteScore (CS)
CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in a journal over a four-year period. It helps assess a journal's scholarly impact and influence.
JCR Impact Factor 2024
Published by Clarivate Analytics, the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Impact Factor indicates the average number of citations to recent articles published in a specific journal. It is a widely recognized metric for evaluating journal performance.
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, developed by SCImago Lab and based on Scopus data, measures a journal's prestige by considering both the number of citations and the importance of the citing journals.
Other Tools
Open Policy Finder
Developed by Jisc (UK), this tool helps researchers and institutions locate and compare open access policies from publishers and funding agencies. It supports compliance with funder mandates and promotes transparency in scholarly publishing.
UGC Regulation and Research Integrity
This document outlines the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines on promoting ethics and academic integrity in higher education. It details best practices for maintaining research quality, avoiding misconduct, and ensuring adherence to ethical standards.
Journal Finders
Tools to help authors find suitable journals for their manuscripts: