American Chemical Society (ACS) Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher American Chemical Society (ACS) including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

American Chemical Society (ACS) has published 1783173 documents so far, receiving a total of 48631077 citations. These numbers are equal to 1.45% and 4.40% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. American Chemical Society (ACS) has a score of 27.27 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by American Chemical Society (ACS). In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Other, Book, Posted Content, Report, Monograph, and Book Series a with the total document number of 1711836, 32601, 7205, 1682, 29843, 1, 1, and 4 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 96.00%, 1.83%, 0.40%, 0.09%, 1.67%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in American Chemical Society (ACS) so far, respectively. American Chemical Society (ACS) has been an active publisher from 1879-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of American Chemical Society (ACS) over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of American Chemical Society (ACS) documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. American Chemical Society (ACS) has the highest annual number of publications in 2020, with 83086 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 2147198 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 1.11.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of American Chemical Society (ACS) are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs.

The number of published documents by American Chemical Society (ACS) are 1711836, 32601, 29843, 1682, 4, 1, and 1 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.87%, 0.21%, 3.64%, 0.19%, 0.13%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs of American Chemical Society (ACS) are 48445486, 163873, 2017, 19022, 233, 0, and 4, respectively. These numbers are equal to 4.59%, 1.02%, 1.25%, 0.25%, 3.18%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs by American Chemical Society (ACS) are 1129, 90, 11, 60, 2, 0, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 79, 793, 33, 253, and 760, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs by American Chemical Society (ACS) are 69, 16, 5, 12, 2, 0, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 14, 60, 10, 29, and 60, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs by American Chemical Society (ACS) are 28.300, 5.027, 0.068, 11.309, 58.250, 0.000, and 4.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 0.197, 8.593, 2.404, 1.416, and 9.566, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs by American Chemical Society (ACS) are 65959, 583, 16375, 44, 1, 0, and 1, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs are 2020, 2020, 2020, 2010, 2020, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs published in American Chemical Society (ACS) are 2205168, 1477, 1029, 211, 0, 0, and 4, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs are 2011, 2012, 2020, 2010, 2020, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs published in American Chemical Society (ACS) are 52.35, 3.15, 0.22, 4.80, 0.00, 0.00, and 4.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Posted Contents, Books, Book Seriess, Reports, and Monographs are 2010, 2011, 2017, 2010, 2020, 0, and 2020, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher American Chemical Society (ACS).

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by American Chemical Society (ACS), are 1129, 653, and 327, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by American Chemical Society (ACS) are 69, 46, and 28, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by American Chemical Society (ACS), are 895164, 521258, 249076, 90822, 18835, 5286, 1420, 242, 62, and 13, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the American Chemical Society (ACS) top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by American Chemical Society (ACS) is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of American Chemical Society (ACS) based on the number of published documents are Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical & Engineering News, Analytical Chemistry, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 202286, 161819, 126651, 93857, and 69375, respectively. These numbers are equal to 11.344%, 9.075%, 7.103%, 5.263%, and 3.891% of the total documents published by American Chemical Society (ACS) so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of American Chemical Society (ACS) are Journal of the American Chemical Society, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, and Chemical Reviews. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 202286, 69375, 126651, 93857, and 9274, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.416%, 0.143%, 0.260%, 0.193%, and 0.019% of the total citations received by American Chemical Society (ACS) publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of American Chemical Society (ACS) are Chemical Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, and Chemistry of Materials. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 237.498, 118.262, 84.561, 64.802, and 53.950, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in American Chemical Society (ACS). The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Chemical Society (ACS) are mass spectrometry, x ray, kinetics of, molecular dynamics, electron transfer, magnetic resonance, solid state, self assembly, transition metal, and solar cells, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 15949, 13266, 10670, 9520, 8504, 8430, 8378, 7520, 7318, and 7183, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Chemical Society (ACS) are mass spectrometry, solar cells, metal organic, x ray, transition metal, carbon nanotubes, self assembly, electron transfer, high performance, and kinetics of, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 15949, 7183, 7127, 13266, 7318, 5351, 7520, 8504, 6663, and 10670, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher American Chemical Society (ACS) are metal organic frameworks, gold nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, solar cells, visible light, graphene oxide, palladium catalyzed, carbon nanotube, metal organic, and cross coupling, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 69.098, 66.791, 64.820, 64.238, 64.043, 63.900, 61.307, 60.120, 58.033, and 55.975, respectively.