There are lots of different ways to look at the reach of an article. You can look at citations, Altmetric Attention Scores, awards, and more. One way to consider the influence of an article is just by looking at how many people chose to read it. To that end, we’ve compiled lists of the five most-read chemistry articles that appeared in each ACS Publications journal in 2018, including research, reviews, perspectives, and editorial pieces. These lists were not chosen by the journal’s editors and should not be taken as a “best of” list, but as another perspective on where the chemistry community allocated their attention over the past year.
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Accounts of Chemical Research
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Radical Retrosynthesis
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (8), pp 1807–1817
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00209
Copper-Catalyzed Radical Relay for Asymmetric Radical Transformations
Published as part of the Accounts of Chemical Research special issue Hydrogen Atom Transfer.
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (9), pp 2036–2046
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00265
Construction of Axially Chiral Compounds via Asymmetric Organocatalysis
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (2), pp 534–547
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00602
Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Synthesis Planning
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (5), pp 1281–1289
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00087
Molecular Clusters: Nanoscale Building Blocks for Solid-State Materials
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (4), pp 919–929
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00016
ACS Central Science
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Automatic Chemical Design Using a Data-Driven Continuous Representation of Molecules
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (2), pp 268–276
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00572
Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (3), pp 349–356
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605
Generating Focused Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery with Recurrent Neural Networks
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (1), pp 120–131
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00512
The Matter Simulation (R)evolution
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (2), pp 144–152
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00550
The CryoEM Method MicroED as a Powerful Tool for Small Molecule Structure Determination
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (11), pp 1587–1592
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00760
ACS Nano
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Sperm-Hybrid Micromotor for Targeted Drug Delivery
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (1), pp 327–337
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06398
Best Practices for Reporting Electrocatalytic Performance of Nanomaterials
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (10), pp 9635–9638
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07700
Energy Storage in Nanomaterials – Capacitive, Pseudocapacitive, or Battery-like?
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (3), pp 2081–2083
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01914
Multiscale Control of Nanocellulose Assembly: Transferring Remarkable Nanoscale Fibril Mechanics to Macroscale Fibers
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (7), pp 6378–6388
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01084
Nanozyme Decorated Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (1), pp 651–661
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b07746
ACS Omega
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2D Photonic Crystal Hydrogel Sensor for Tear Glucose Monitoring
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (3), pp 3211–3217
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b02046
Musical Instruments As Sensors
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (9), pp 11026–11032
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01673
ACS Omega 2017: A Year-End Expression of Appreciation for the Fundamental Contributions of Our Reviewers
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (1), pp 595–607
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00007
Journey of Aggregation-Induced Emission Research
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (3), pp 3267–3277
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00062
Biobased Acrylate Photocurable Resin Formulation for Stereolithography 3D Printing
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (2), pp 1403–1408
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b01648
Chemical Reviews
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Metal Catalysts for Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Single Atoms to Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (10), pp 4981–5079
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00776
Chemistry Education Research—From Personal Empiricism to Evidence, Theory, and Informed Practice
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (12), pp 6053–6087
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00020
Bright Side of Lignin Depolymerization: Toward New Platform Chemicals
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (2), pp 614–678
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00588
Green and Sustainable Solvents in Chemical Processes
This article is part of the Sustainable Chemistry special issue.
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (2), pp 747–800
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00571
High-k Gate Dielectrics for Emerging Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (11), pp 5690–5754
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00045
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Natural Product Total Synthesis: As Exciting as Ever and Here To Stay
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (14), pp 4751–4755
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b02266
A General Strategy for Aliphatic C–H Functionalization Enabled by Organic Photoredox Catalysis
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (12), pp 4213–4217
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00592
Total Synthesis of Hybridaphniphylline B
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (12), pp 4227–4231
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b01681
Total Synthesis of (+)-Pleuromutilin
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (4), pp 1267–1270
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13260
Decarboxylative Trifluoromethylation of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (21), pp 6522–6526
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b02650
Journal of Chemical Education
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A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (2), pp 197–206
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00361
Black Panther, Vibranium, and the Periodic Table
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (7), pp 1243–1244
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00206
Adapting Assessment Tasks To Support Three-Dimensional Learning
Open Access through ACS Editors’ Choice
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (2), pp 207–217
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00645
The ACS Exams Institute Undergraduate Chemistry Anchoring Concepts Content Map III: Inorganic Chemistry
Open Access through ACS AuthorChoice
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (2), pp 233–237
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00498
The Replication Crisis and Chemistry Education Research
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (1), pp 1–2
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00907