Learn how ACS Publications can elevate the visibility of your biological and medicinal chemistry work, streamline your publishing experience, and connect you with a worldwide scientific community.
Publishing your research in a trusted, reputable journal is crucial for advancing your career and contributing to the scientific community. Within its diverse journal portfolio, ACS Publications offers nearly 20 journals reporting the latest discoveries in biological chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, infectious diseases, and more. Our journals are managed by expert editorial teams and are known for their rigorous peer review process, rapid processing times, and wide readership, ensuring that your work reaches a global audience and adds impactful value to the field.
Read on to learn more about the benefits of publishing your biological and medicinal chemistry work in an ACS journal—and browse the publications within our biochemical portfolio to find the perfect home for your research.
Why should you publish your biological or medicinal chemistry research in an ACS journal?
1. ACS Publications is a nonprofit society publisher and a division of the American Chemical Society.
ACS Publications is an experienced publisher with with nearly 70 years of experience publishing high-quality biological chemistry journals and a focus on serving researchers and the scientific community. We do this by:
- Enlisting practicing researchers from prominent institutions around the world to serve as Editors-in-Chief and other members of our journals’ editorial teams.
- Employing a high-quality peer-review process developed over more than 145 years of publishing respected scholarly journals.
- Expediting manuscript processing to deliver decisions and get papers published as quickly as possible. View peer review metrics here.
- Offering more than a dozen core biological chemistry journals as well as more than 20 multidisciplinary journals publishing high-impact biological research.
2. ACS journals are highly influential with a global reach.
- ACS Publications is committed to publishing the most trusted, most cited, and most read science in chemistry-related topics. This is supported by metrics like Journal Impact Factor™, CiteScore, and Total Downloads, all of which can be found here.
- Readership and authorship in ACS journals spans more than 6,000 institutions in 75 countries.
- Your research will be seen by peers in your field. Many of our journals are seen as the core community journal for the field they represent.
- Your research will be seen by researchers in many other fields. In fact, 61% articles that cite ACS Publications are classified as outside the core chemistry categories.
3. ACS offers authors a variety of publishing options.
Authors who publish with ACS can choose to publish in a hybrid journal or in a fully open access journal.
- It’s free to submit and free to publish in an ACS hybrid journal under the traditional subscription model. That means no author charges, page charges, processing charges, or color charges.
- Once an article is accepted for publication in an ACS hybrid journal, authors who want to make their article open access—or are required to by their funders—can do so by paying an article publishing charge (APC).
- ACS also has many fully open access journals, including ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, which serves the biological chemistry research community, as well as ACS Central Science, ACS Omega, and JACS Au, which are broad, multidisciplinary journals.
- Publishing in an open access journal may require paying an APC after article acceptance but many discounts, promotions, and institutional agreements are available to offset or eliminate this cost.
Get to know ACS Publications’ biological chemistry journals
The journals listed below publish research in biological and medicinal chemistry. Read on to learn more about these journals or visit our website to learn about all the full portfolio of ACS journals.
ACS Bio & Med Chem Au
- In publication since 2021 as a fully gold open access journal
- Biological and medicinal chemistry covering the chemical, physical, biological, mechanistic, and structural basis of biological function
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to booker-office@biomedchemau.acs.org
ACS Chemical Biology
- In publication since 2006
- Reports of research on cellular processes using in vitro, cellular or whole organism studies at the chemical and biological interface
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to ed-office@chembio.acs.org
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
- In publication since 2010
- Chemical, quantitative biological, biophysical, and bioengineering research reports on the nervous system and neurological disorders
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@chemneuro.acs.org
ACS Infectious Diseases
- In publication since 2015
- Highlights the role of chemistry in the multidisciplinary and collaborative field of infectious diseases
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@id.acs.org
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
- In publication since 2010
- New findings in drug discovery, compound design and optimization, biological evaluation, drug delivery, imaging agents, and pharmacology
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@medchemlett.acs.org
ACS Nanomedicine
- In publication starting January 2026
- Fundamental, applied, experimental, and theoretical aspects of research at the intersection of nanoscience, medicine, biology, chemistry, and materials
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@nanomed.acs.org
ACS Omega
- In publication since 2016 as a fully gold open access journal
- Publishing new peer-reviewed findings in chemistry and the interfacing sciences, including interdisciplinary studies
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to ganesh-office@omega.acs.org
ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
- In publication since 2018
- A biomedical journal reporting advances across the molecular and biological sciences—from basic and preclinical studies to clinical trials
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@ptsci.acs.org
ACS Synthetic Biology
- In publication since 2012
- Comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and translational applications of biological engineering
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@synthbiol.acs.org
Biochemistry
- In publication since 1962
- Exceptional, rigorous, high-impact interdisciplinary research articles across all of biological chemistry
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@biochem.acs.org
Bioconjugate Chemistry
- In publication since 1990
- Research articles on all aspects of bioconjugates, including the preparation, properties and applications of biomolecular conjugates
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@bioconj.acs.org
Biomacromolecules
- In publication since 2000
- Innovation in terms of macromolecular design, synthesis and characterization, or in the application of polymer materials to biology and medicine
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@biomac.acs.org
JACS Au
- In publication since 2021 as a fully gold open access journal
- Reporting significant research discoveries in all fields of chemistry
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@jacsau.acs.org
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- In publication since 1959
- Findings on the relationship between molecular structure and biological activity or mode of action in drug discovery and development
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to jmc@jmedchem.acs.org
Journal of Natural Products
- In publication since 1979
- Reports on the chemistry and/or biochemistry of naturally occurring compounds or the biology of living systems from which they are obtained
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to eic@jnp.acs.org
Journal of Proteome Research
- In publication since 2002
- A multidisciplinary approach to the life sciences through the synergy between the different types of "omics"
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If you have any questions about this journal please send them to eic@jpr.acs.org
Journal of the American Chemical Society
- In publication since 1879
- Flagship journal of the American Chemical Society and the world’s preeminent journal of chemistry and interfacing areas of science
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If you have any questions about this journal, please send them to jacs@jacs.acs.org
Molecular Pharmaceutics
- In publication since 2004
- Publishes findings on the molecular mechanistic understanding of drug delivery and drug delivery systems
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to taylor-office@mp.acs.org
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- In publication since 1896 (as part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry)
- Experimental, theoretical and computational research in the area of biophysics, biochemistry, biomaterials, liquids and soft matter
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If you have questions about this journal, please send them to shea-office@jpc.acs.org
