Angewandte Chemie is a weekly peer-reviewed chemistry journal that covers all disciplines of chemistry. Its impact factor is 10.031 (in 2007), which is the highest value for a chemistry-specific journal that publishes original research. It is a journal of the German Chemical Society and is published by Wiley-VCH.

Besides original research in the form of short communications, the journal contains review-type articles (reviews, minireviews, essays, highlights), and a magazine section (news, obituaries, book reviews, conference reports). Colloquially, the journal is simply called "Angewandte". "Angewandte Chemie" is German for applied chemistry, although this translation no longer accurately describes the scope of the journal. It is edited by Peter Gölitz, who is credited with elevating the impact and international scope of its authorship.

The journal prides itself in having brought numerous innovations to scientific journal publishing. Since 1977, a single article is featured with a graphic on the cover and the table of contents has been richly annotated with graphics and text. At the start of its online version in 1998, Angewandte Chemie adopted a keyword catalogue to characterize articles and facilitate easy searching.

Editions

The journal appears in two editions with separate volume and page numbering: a German edition, Angewandte Chemie ((print), (online)), with the magazine and review sections as well as some original research in German, and a fully English-language edition, Angewandte Chemie International Edition ((print), (online)). The editions are identical in content with the exception of occasional reviews of German-language books or German translations of IUPAC recommendations. Only one edition is listed in abstracting and indexing services such as PubMed, Web of Science, or Chemical Abstracts Service; this is typically the International Edition.

Business Model

Angewandte Chemie is available by subscription online and in print. As Angewandte Chemie is a hybrid open access journal, authors may choose to pay a fee to make articles available free of charge. Angewandte Chemie provides open access to supporting information.

Publication History

In 1887, Ferdinand Fischer founded Zeitschrift für die Chemische Industrie (Journal for the Chemical Industry). In 1888, the title was changed to Zeitschrift für Angewandte Chemie (Journal of Applied Chemistry), and volume numbering started over. This title was kept until the end of 1941 when it was changed to "Die Chemie". Until 1920, the journal was published by Springer Verlag and by Verlag Chemie starting in 1921. Due to World War II, the journal did not publish from April 1945 to December 1946. In 1947, publication was resumed under the current title, Angewandte Chemie.

In 1962, the English-language edition was launched as Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English (CODEN ACIEAY, abbreviated as Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.), which has a separate volume counting. With beginning of Vol. 37 (1998) "in English" was dropped from the journal name.

A number of journals have merged into Angewandte, including Chemische Technik / Chemische Apparatur in 1947 and Zeitschrift für Chemie in 1990.

Related journals

• Chemie Ingenieur Technik, established in 1949 and published in English as Chemical Engineering and Technology since 1987
• Nachrichten aus Chemie, Technik und Laboratorium (established 1977) - membership journal of the German Chemical Society
• Advanced Materials (1988)
• Chemistry: A European Journal (1995)
• European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (1998)
• European Journal of Organic Chemistry (1998)
• ChemPhysChem (2000)
• ChemBioChem (2000)
• ChemMedChem (2006)
• Chemistry: An Asian Journal (2006)
• ChemSusChem (2008)

Many of these journals, including ChemPhysChem, ChemBioChem, ChemMedChem, and ChemSusChem were distributed along with Angewandte Chemie International Edition for a period of time following their launch in order to increase visibility.

Criticism

While it has been suggested that Angewandte's impact factor is as high as it is in comparison to other chemistry journals because the journal contains reviews, the editors claim this effect is too small to explain the difference or affect the ranking of the journal in its subject group.

Top ten most highly cited papers

1. Kraft A, Grimsdale AC, Holmes AB: Electroluminescent conjugated polymers - Seeing polymers in a new light. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 37 (4): 402-428 MAR 2 1998 Times Cited: 1308
2. Pedersen CJ, Frensdor HK: Macrocyclic polyethers and their complexes. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 11 (1): 16& 1972 Times Cited: 1021
3. Cheetham AK, Ferey G, Loiseau T: Open-framework inorganic materials. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 38 (22): 3268-3292 1999 Times Cited: 907
4. Bjorndal H, Hellerqvist CG, Lindberg B, Svensson S: Gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry in methylation analysis of polysaccharides. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 9 (8): 610& 1970 Times Cited: 850
5. Britovsek GJP, Gibson VC, Wass DF: The search for new-generation olefin polymerization catalysts: Life beyond metallocenes. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 38 (4): 428-447 1999 Times Cited: 844
6. Ying JY, Mehnert CP, Wong MS: Synthesis and applications of supramolecular-templated mesoporous materials. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 38 (1-2): 56-77 1999 Times Cited: 803
7. Salem L, Rowland C: Electronic properties of diradicals. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 11 (2): 92& 1972 Times Cited: 776
8. Beer PD, Gale PA Anion recognition and sensing: The state of the art and future perspectives. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 40 (3): 486-516 2001 Times Cited: 751
9. Nicolaou KC, Dai WM: Chemistry and biology of the enediyne anticancer antibiotics. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 30 (11): 1387-1416 NOV 1991 Times Cited: 739
10. de Meijere A, Meyer FE: Fine feathers make fine birds - the heck reaction in modern garb. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 33 (23-24): 2379-2411 JAN 3 1994 Times Cited: 725

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