Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie
Abbreviated title (ISO)	Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (English), Angew. Chem. (German)
Discipline	Chemistry
Language	German, English
Edited by	Peter Gölitz
Publication details
Publisher	Wiley-VCH (Germany)
Publication history	1887–present (in German), 1962–present (in English)
Impact factor (2010)	12.730
Indexing
ISSN	1433-7851 (print) 1521-3773 (web)
CODEN	ACIEF5 (International), ANCEAD (German)
Links
German edition English edition

Angewandte Chemie is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of chemistry. Its impact factor was 12.730 in 2010, the highest value for a chemistry-specific journal that publishes original research.^[1] 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.

Editions

The journal appears in two editions with separate volume and page numbering: a German edition, Angewandte Chemie (ISSN 0044-8249 (print), ISSN 1521-3757 (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 (ISSN 1433-7851 (print), ISSN 1521-3773 (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. It is a hybrid open access journal and authors may choose to pay a fee to make articles available free of charge. Angewandte Chemie provides open access to supporting information. Angewandte enjoys a very high impact rating in part because, unlike other chemistry journals, it publishes both reviews and articles describing original research. Typically, reviews attract high numbers of citations, whereas articles attract fewer.

Publication history

In 1887, Ferdinand Fischer founded the 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.^[2]

In 1962, the English-language edition was launched as Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English (ISSN 0570-0833, CODEN ACIEAY, abbreviated as Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.), which has a separate volume counting. With the 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.

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.^[3]

Top ten most highly cited papers

The ten most highly cited papers in the Angewandte are:^[4]

1. Kraft A, Grimsdale AC, Holmes AB (2 March 1998). "Electroluminescent Conjugated Polymers - Seeing Polymers in a New Light". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 37 (4): 402–428. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980302)37:4<402::AID-ANIE402>3.0.CO;2-9. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/10004568/abstract.  Times Cited: 1308
2. Pedersen CJ; Frensdor HK (1972). "Macrocyclic Polyethers and Their Complexes". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 11 (1): 16–25. doi:10.1002/anie.197200161. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 4622977. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/106578907/abstract.  Times Cited: 1021
3. Cheetham AK, Férey G, Loiseau T. (15 November 1999). "Open-Framework Inorganic Materials". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 38 (22): 3268–3292. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19991115)38:22<3268::AID-ANIE3268>3.0.CO;2-U. ISSN 1433–7851. PMID 10602176. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/66500559/abstract.  Times Cited: 907
4. Bjorndal H, Hellerqvist CG, Lindberg B, Svensson S (1970). "Gas-Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry in Methylation Analysis of Polysaccharides". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 9 (8): 610–619. doi:10.1002/anie.197006101. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/106578370/abstract.  Times Cited: 850
5. Britovsek GJP, Gibson VC, Wass DF (1999). "The Search for New-Generation Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: Life beyond Metallocenes". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 38 (4): 428–447. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990215)38:4<428::AID-ANIE428>3.0.CO;2-3. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/40006742/abstract.  Times Cited: 844
6. Ying JY, Mehnert CP, Wong MS (1999). "Synthesis and Applications of Supramolecular-Templated Mesoporous Materials". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 38 (1–2): 56–77. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990115)38:1/2<56::AID-ANIE56>3.0.CO;2-E. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/30003058/abstract.  Times Cited: 803
7. Salem L, Rowland C (2001). "The Electronic Properties of Diradicals". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 11 (2): 92–111. doi:10.1002/anie.197200921. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/106579066/abstract.  Times Cited: 776
8. Beer PD, Gale PA. (2001). "Anion Recognition and Sensing: The State of the Art and Future Perspectives". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 40 (3): 486–516. doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20010202)40:3<486::AID-ANIE486>3.0.CO;2-P. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 11180358. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76510471/abstract.  Times Cited: 751
9. Nicolaou KC; Dai WM (November 1991). "Chemistry and Biology of the Enediyne Anticancer Antibiotics". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 30 (11): 1387–1416. doi:10.1002/anie.199113873. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/106587225/abstract.  Times Cited: 739
10. de Meijere A, Meyer FE (3 January 1994). "Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds: The Heck Reaction in Modern Garb". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 33 (23–24): 2379–2411. doi:10.1002/anie.199423791. ISSN 1433-7851. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/106589418/abstract.  Times Cited: 725

References

1. ^ Journal Citation Reports, June 2011
2. ^ P. Gölitz, Angew. Chem. 1988, 100, 3; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1988, 27, 3
3. ^ P. Gölitz, Angew. Chem. 2006, 118, 5152-5154; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 5030-5032
4. ^ source ISI 3/8/06