The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

General Information about Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is an international, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal which started publication in August 2005. It covers all areas of organic chemistry, including organic synthesis, organic reactions, natural product chemistry, structural investigations, supramolecular chemistry and chemical biology. The content is freely accessible online immediately upon publication and is publicly archived in the major Open Access repositories.

The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is published and completely funded by the Beilstein-Institut, a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Editor-in-Chief is Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester. Currently, there are 40 scientists from all over the world, including several Nobel Prize laureates, who support the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry as Editorial Board members.

The most important key facts for the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are

• Open Access
  All articles published in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are freely and universally accessible for everyone immediately upon publication: no user registration is required.
• No Publication Fee
  The publication of articles in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is free of charge. The journal is financed completely by the Beilstein-Institut, thus making it free for both authors and readers. The Beilstein-Institut is committed to financing the journal on an ongoing basis. Uniquely in organic chemistry, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry has no financial barriers for scientists to publish in or read the journal.
• General Publication Criteria
  The main criteria for acceptance of an article for publication in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are high quality, originality, novelty and importance.
• Peer Review
  All articles published in the journal are fully refereed prior to acceptance. Detailed information about the review process is given in the Instructions for Referees. The editor-in-chief or an associate editor makes a final decision on the manuscript based on the referees' recommendations.
• No Page Limit
  There is no page limit for articles in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. Authors should provide enough background information to support the aim of study and the main claims of the paper, but unimportant or trivial information should not be included. The article length should be commensurate with its scientific content.
• Rapid Publication
  The editorial office strives for rapid publication within 4 to 8 weeks after submission of a manuscript.
• Author Retains Copyright
  Authors retain copyright of their article. The articles of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
• Archived in PubMed Central and Other Repositories
  Articles of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are archived in PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, in UK PubMed Central, the British equivalent of PubMed Central, in e-Depot, the digital archive of all electronic publications of the national Library of the Netherlands, in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the national German archive of publications.
• Detailed Experimental Data
  It is the intention of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry to publish articles with detailed descriptions of experimental procedures and full characterization data of new compounds.

The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry offers scientists the unique opportunity to publish their research free of charge in an Open Access scientific journal that is freely available online 365 days a year to any user worldwide. This ensures authors maximum visibility and impact, and the availability of their work in permanent, publicly available archives of science.

Article Types

The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry publishes the following types of articles:

• Full Research Paper
  reports of results from original research
• Preliminary Communication
  brief reports of results from original research
• Review
  comprehensive and authoritative summarization of any subject within the scope of the journal
• Book Report
  short summaries of the strengths and weaknesses of a book with evaluation of its overall usefulness to the intended audience
• Commentary
  short, focused and opinion-oriented articles on any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are usually written by leading experts.

Articles and Citations in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

All articles published in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance, and will be covered by PubMed Central, Thomson Scientific (ISI), CAS (CODEN: BJOCBH) and others.

Articles in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry should be cited according to the ACS Style Guide. As an online Journal, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry has neither issue numbers nor page numbers. The page numbers printed in the PDFs are not for citation purposes, since every article starts with the page number 1. Instead, articles have unique article numbers.

The articles of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry should be cited as shown in the following example:

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2005, 1, No. 7.

This citation refers to the seventh article from volume 1 published in 2005. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

Submission of Manuscripts

Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically to the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry using the secure Beilstein Publishing System. Details of the submission process and acceptable file formats are given in the Submission Checklist and the Instructions for Authors.

Registration with Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Registration is only necessary if a user wishes to be kept informed about the latest articles from Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry via email alerts or if a new manuscript should be submitted.