Arabian Journal of Chemistry

The Arabian Journal of Chemistry is a monthly open access chemistry journal owned by King Saud University and the Saudi Chemical Society and published by Scientific Scholar, covering inorganic, physical, organic, analytical, medicinal, environmental and materials chemistry, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.3《阿拉伯化学杂志》（Arabian Journal of Chemistry）是由沙特国王大学与沙特化学会共同拥有、由（Scientific Scholar）出版的月刊型开放获取化学期刊，涵盖无机、物理、有机、分析、药物、环境与材料化学，2025 年影响因子为 5.3。

Scope

• Its core fields are inorganic, physical, organic and analytical chemistry其核心领域为无机化学、物理化学、有机化学与分析化学。
• Medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry also fall within its remit药物化学、生物化学、生物无机化学与有机金属化学同样在其收稿范围内。
• Environmental chemistry and green chemistry form a further pillar, and the journal runs a dedicated special issue series on environmental chemistry环境化学与绿色化学构成另一支柱，并设有环境化学专题系列。
• Materials chemistry, solid state chemistry and photochemistry are covered as well材料化学、固体化学与光化学亦在覆盖之列。
• The journal publishes original papers and review articles, together with errata, corrigenda and retraction notices该刊发表原创论文与综述文章，并刊登勘误、更正与撤稿声明。
• Its audience is made up of researchers working across these chemical subdisciplines其读者群体为在上述化学各分支从事研究的人员。
• Authors submit through the EditorialAssist platform, and accepted articles are published online immediately作者通过（EditorialAssist）平台投稿，录用的文章即时在线发表。

History

• The journal was established in 2008 by King Saud University together with the Saudi Chemical Society and is issued by the Arab Union of Chemists该刊于 2008 年由沙特国王大学与沙特化学会共同创办，并由阿拉伯化学家联合会主办。
• For its first eighteen volumes it was published in collaboration with Elsevier, and the backfile from 2009 onwards carries Elsevier DOIs最初十八卷与（Elsevier）合作出版，2009 年起的过刊沿用（Elsevier）的（DOI）。
• From volume 19 in 2026 Scientific Scholar became the publisher of record, with a new platform and the DOI prefix 10.25259, while ownership and editorial control stayed with the university and the society自 2026 年第 19 卷起改由（Scientific Scholar）担任出版方，启用新平台与 10.25259 号（DOI），所有权与编辑权仍归大学与学会。
• The article processing charge is 800 US dollars for manuscripts submitted before 1 January 2026 and 1,000 US dollars thereafter, and articles are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.02026 年 1 月 1 日前投稿的文章处理费为 800 美元，此后为 1000 美元，文章以（CC BY-NC-SA 4.0）许可发布。
• Its impact factor moved from 5.165 in 2021 and 6.212 in 2022 to 5.3 in 2025, ranking 80th of 250 in multidisciplinary chemistry in the second quartile, with a CiteScore of 10.8影响因子由 2021 年的 5.165、2022 年的 6.212 变动至 2025 年的 5.3，在化学综合类 250 种期刊中列第 80 位、属第二四分位，CiteScore 为 10.8。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, screens submissions with iThenticate at a similarity ceiling of 25 percent, and archives its content in Portico该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）与（Scopus）收录，以（iThenticate）查重并将相似度上限设为 25%，内容通过（Portico）长期存档。

Editors

• Ali K. Aldalbahi of the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, is editor-in-chief主编（Ali K. Aldalbahi）为沙特国王大学理学院化学系教授。
• Zeid Alothman and Mohamed El-Newehy, both at King Saud University, serve as vice editors-in-chief副主编（Zeid Alothman）与（Mohamed El-Newehy）均任职于沙特国王大学。
• Assistant editors include Bin Ding of Donghua University, Tariq Ateeq Altalhi of Taif University and Suk Goo Yoon of Korea University助理编辑包括东华大学的（Bin Ding）、塔伊夫大学的（Tariq Ateeq Altalhi）与高丽大学的（Suk Goo Yoon）。
• An international advisory board draws members from Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Italy, Libya, India, Germany, Egypt, Malaysia, the United States, Spain, China and France国际顾问委员会成员来自约旦、伊拉克、科威特、阿尔及利亚、意大利、利比亚、印度、德国、埃及、马来西亚、美国、西班牙、中国与法国。
• Manuscripts are double-blind reviewed by at least two external referees, with a third acting as tie-breaker when needed, and authors answer the comments point by point稿件由至少两名外部审稿人双盲评审，必要时增聘第三名审稿人裁决，作者须逐条答复审稿意见。
• Submissions involving editorial board members are handled by an independent editor, and proofs must be returned within three days涉及编委本人的稿件由独立编辑处理，校样须在三天内返回。