Open Chemistry

Why submit

As an Author of Open Chemistry, You benefit from

• fair and constructive peer review

• quick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model)

• language polishing services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regions

• no limitations on colour figures and word count in published articles

• all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictions

• promotion of published papers to readers and citers

• distribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwide

• liberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods)

• secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independenta rchiving service Portico

Special Issues:

• Noncovalent Interactions in Crystals, Liquids, Materials, and Biological Systems
  Submission deadline: 28 February 2026
• Essential Oils from Brazil: Advances and Trends in Food Science and Pharmacological Applications
  Submission deadline: 28 February 2026
• Rheology of bio-based polymers: from molecular design to processability
  Submission deadline: 28 February 2026
• Rheology of geomaterials and engineered materials under extreme conditions: multiscale characterization, modeling and applications
  Submission deadline: 30 June 2026

Completed Special Issues:

• Phytochemical and Pharmacological Scrutinization of Medicinal Plant
  Coordinating Editors: Riaz Ullah and Sezai Ercisli
• Recent Trends in Green Chemistry
  Coordinating Editors: Arpita Singh and Ge Zhang
• Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy, Environmental and Biological Applications - Part III
  Coordinating Editors: Suresh Sagadevan
• The rheology of emerging plant based food systems
  Coordinating Editors: Jack Yang, Norbert Raak
• The rheological test, modeling and numerical simulation of rock material
  Coordinating Editors: Yanlin Zhao

You are also welcome to submit your Special Issue proposal by contacting Managing Editor at openchemistry@degruyter.com

Cooperation with conferences:

• The 11^TH International Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MESMAP-11)
  Submission Deadline: 31.07.2025
• 7^TH International Conference on Nanomaterials Science and Mechanical Engineering (ICNMSME - 2025)
  Submission Deadline: 31.07.2025
• The 8^th International Conference on Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2025
  Submission Deadline: 30.08.2025
• 11th IWA Membrane Technology Conference (MTC 2025)
  Submi ssion Deadline: 31.10.2025.
• International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis (ISySyCat2025)
  Submission Deadline: 31.10.2025

• Balticum Organicum Syntheticum 2026
  Submission Deadline: 1.07.2026

Best Paper Award
Beginning from 2025, Associate Editors together with EiC will award a prize for the best paper published in each issue. The authors of the winning paper will receive a certificate and a full waiver for a future submission in Open Chemistry.

Open Chemistry is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original research, reviews, and communications in the fields of chemistry in an ongoing way. Our central goal is to provide a hub for researchers working across all subjects to present their discoveries, and to be a forum for the discussion of the important issues in the field.

Aims and Scope

Open Chemistry aims to publish high quality research in the following areas:

• Biological Chemistry/Biochemistry including bioanalytical chemistry, biochemistry and biological chemistry, biophysics and chemical physics in biology
• Analytical Chemistry including electrochemistry, environmental chemistry, spectroscopy
  
• Physical Chemistry including catalysis, chemical kinetics and reactivity, chemical physics, computational chemistry, chemometrics and QSAR, hydrogen technologies, hydrogen storage, nanochemistry, photochemistry, physical chemistry and physical organic chemistry, radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, surface chemistry and colloids, theoretical chemistry, thermodynamics
  
• Inorganic Chemistry including coordination chemistry, crystallography, materials and solid- state chemistry
  
• Organic Chemistry including macromolecules and polymers, natural product chemistry, organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, phytochemistry
  
• Interference with other sciences including clinical chemistry, marine chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry

Article Processing Charges

In order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Open Chemistry is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €1600, effective 1^st February, 2025. This fee is used to cover the costs of the peer-review process, professional typesetting and copyediting, as well as online hosting, long-term preservation, and extensive promotion to potential readers. There is no submission fee. Information regarding payment of the charge will be provided following acceptance for publication. For more information please go to Article Processing Charges

Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies

Detailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found in the Supplementary Materials section.

For more information on De Gruyter Publishing Ethics, please see the De Gruyter Guidelines online here.