Chemistry Africa is the journal of the Tunisian Chemical Society, published by Springer in Cham as the successor of the Journal de la Société Chimique de Tunisie, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4.《Chemistry Africa》是突尼斯化学会的刊物，由 Springer 在沙姆出版，接替《Journal de la Société Chimique de Tunisie》，2025 年影响因子 2.4。
Volume 1 is 2018 and volume 9 is the 2026 volume, with ten issues a year since 2024.第 1 卷署 2018 年，第 9 卷对应 2026 年，2024 年起一年十期。
Scope
The journal takes all branches of chemistry, and states a second duty beside that, which is to bring African chemistry and the problems Africa faces into the same pages.刊物收全部化学分支，另外写明一重任务，把非洲的化学与非洲要解决的问题放进同一批页面。
Its stated frame is the seventeen sustainable development goals, and the society says it works with other chemical societies on the same list.它给出的框架是十七项可持续发展目标，学会说在这张单子上与别的化学会一起做事。
Organic and organometallic chemistry open the topic list, split into the design and synthesis of organic architectures, phytochemistry and medicinal natural products, coordination chemistry and bioconjugate work.有机与有机金属化学排在专题表首位，下面分成有机骨架的设计与合成、植物化学与药用天然产物、配位化学以及生物偶联工作。
Inorganic and solid-state chemistry comes next with metals and alloys, ceramics, glasses and inorganic polymers, designed cements and concretes, crystallography, thermodynamics and catalysis.无机与固态化学随后，下有金属与合金、陶瓷、玻璃与无机高分子、设计水泥与混凝土、晶体学、热力学与催化。
Structural, analytical and physical chemistry is the largest block, and under it sit spectroscopy, separation science, chemometrics, modelling, machine learning, electroanalysis, water science, corrosion and sensors.结构、分析与物理化学是最大的一块，其下排着光谱、分离科学、化学计量学、建模、机器学习、电分析、水科学、腐蚀与传感器。
Functional materials and composites have their own section, from polymers and colloids through nanomaterials and biomimetic surfaces to additive manufacturing and self-healing systems.功能材料与复合材料单列一节，从高分子与胶体，经纳米材料与仿生表面，排到增材制造与自愈合体系。
The fifth block is chemistry in society, and it covers green chemistry, renewable energy, adsorbents and membranes for clean water, waste valorisation and chemical education.第五块是化学与社会，涵盖绿色化学、可再生能源、净水吸附剂与膜、废物资源化以及化学教育。
Chemistry in extreme conditions is one of its named subtopics, with arid regions, humid areas and brackish water listed as the settings.极端条件下的化学是写明的子题之一，干旱区、高湿地区与微咸水被列为三种场景。
Forensic chemistry and the indicators of environmental quality are treated as applied topics rather than as outreach, which is unusual for a general chemistry journal.法医化学与环境质量指标被当作应用课题处理，不归到科普那一类，这在综合化学刊里不常见。
Cross-disciplinary work is welcome so long as chemistry stays at the centre of the paper, and that condition is written into the scope rather than left to the editor's taste.交叉研究受欢迎，条件是化学仍是论文的中心，这句话写在收稿范围里，不靠编辑临场拿捏。
Research articles, reviews, communications and short tutorial reviews are the accepted forms, and the tutorial review is aimed at a reader who is entering the topic.收稿形式有研究论文、综述、通讯与短教程综述，最后一种面向刚进这个题目的人。
Transparency is a submission condition, and authors must report instrument calibration, the supplier and grade of every reagent, quality controls, reference materials and the uncertainty on measured data.透明度是投稿条件，作者要交代仪器校准、每种试剂的供应商与等级、质量控制、标准物质，以及实测数据的不确定度。
A cited method has to be reachable, so a method described only by reference must point to a source that is free to read, and a novelty statement is required at submission.被引用的方法必须够得着，靠引文交代的方法要指向可免费阅读的出处，投稿时还要交一份新颖性说明。
History
The first volume carried 21 papers in two issues in 2018, and the second carried 65, of which 14 were published online late in 2018 and filed under the later volume.第 1 卷在 2018 年出了两期，共 21 篇，第 2 卷 65 篇，其中 14 篇是 2018 年末先在网上发的，编号时归到了后一卷。
Growth after that was steep, with 101 papers in volume 3, 88 in volume 4, 184 in volume 5 and 243 in volume 6.此后的增长很陡，第 3 卷 101 篇，第 4 卷 88 篇，第 5 卷 184 篇，第 6 卷 243 篇。
Volumes 7 and 8 took 409 and 366 papers, and volume 9 already holds 389 in 2026, so the twenty-one of the first year are now a twentieth of a volume.第 7 与第 8 卷分别装了 409 与 366 篇，第 9 卷到 2026 年已有 389 篇，第一年那 21 篇如今只抵一卷的二十分之一。
Volume number and year differ by 2017, so volume 5 is 2022 and volume 7 is 2024 without an exception in the record.卷号与年份差 2017，第 5 卷就是 2022 年，第 7 卷就是 2024 年，记录里没有例外。
The issue count grew with the papers, four issues in volumes 2 to 4, six in volumes 5 and 6, ten from volume 7, and the National Library of Medicine records ten a year from January 2024.期数跟着篇数长，第 2 至第 4 卷各四期，第 5 与第 6 卷各六期，第 7 卷起十期，国家医学图书馆从 2024 年 1 月起也记作一年十期。
The aims page still says three regular issues and one special issue a year, which was true before the expansion and has not been revised since.宗旨页至今仍写每年三期正刊加一期专辑，那是扩张之前的实情，后来没有改。
Crossref holds 1,870 records for the title, and the yearly figure moves across two volumes because papers published online in December are filed under the next volume.存缴里一共 1,870 条，每年的数字要跨两卷才看得全，因为十二月先在网上发的论文会归到下一卷。
The impact factor was 2.3 in 2023, 2.2 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.3, so the three annual values sit within a tenth of one another.影响因子 2023 年 2.3，2024 年 2.2，2025 年 2.4，五年值 2.3，三个年度值彼此差不到零点一。
Only one category is claimed, multidisciplinary chemistry, where the journal ranks 149th of 250 at the 40.6th percentile and sits in the third quartile.只占综合化学一个类目，250 种里排第 149，百分位 40.6，落在第三区。
The 2025 release records 2,773 citations, 300 articles and a cited half-life of 2.6 years, which is short and consistent with a title that grew quickly.2025 年版记下总被引 2,773 次、300 篇文章、被引半衰期 2.6 年，这个半衰期偏短，与一本迅速长大的刊物相符。
Gold open access covers 4.68 per cent of the papers, so the subscription route remains the default even though most of the readership arrives through PubMed and the publisher platform.金色开放获取覆盖 4.68% 的论文，订阅仍是默认路径，尽管多数读者是从 PubMed 与出版方平台找过来的。
The title is indexed in the emerging sources citation index rather than the science citation index expanded, and the National Library of Medicine gives it PubMed coverage for selected citations only.它收在新兴来源引文索引里，还没有进扩展版科学引文索引，国家医学图书馆给的记录是 PubMed 仅选引。
The society reaches back further than the journal, since the Tunisian Chemical Society ran a French language bulletin before 2018 and this title is its continuation in English.学会的资历比刊物长，突尼斯化学会在 2018 年以前办过一份法文通报，这本英文刊是它的延续。
Editors
Four editors-in-chief are listed, Hichem Ben Jannet of Monastir, Rafik Kalfat of the national research institute in Aryanah, Latifa Latrous and Adel Megriche of Tunis El Manar.主编列了四位，莫纳斯提尔的 Hichem Ben Jannet、阿利亚纳国家理化分析研究所的 Rafik Kalfat，以及突尼斯埃尔马纳大学的 Latifa Latrous 与 Adel Megriche。
An honorary editor-in-chief sits above them, Mohamed Mehdi Chehimi of the CNRS in Paris, and the title records where he works rather than what he decides.名誉主编在他们之上，是巴黎法国国家科研中心的 Mohamed Mehdi Chehimi，头衔记的是他在哪里工作，不是他定什么。
An executive editor-in-chief receives every submission first, and the aims page uses the post without naming the person who holds it.执行主编先接每一篇投稿，宗旨页用到这个职位，却没有写出坐在这个位子上的名字。
Associate editors are grouped by the five topics, so the organic group carries Suman Alishetty of George Mason, Azhar Ariffin of Malaya, Jalloul Bouajila of Toulouse, Li Cai of South Carolina, Biswajit Dey and Pavel Postnikov of Tomsk.副主编按五个专题分组，有机组里有乔治梅森大学的 Suman Alishetty、马来亚大学的 Azhar Ariffin、图卢兹的 Jalloul Bouajila、南卡罗来纳大学的 Li Cai，还有 Biswajit Dey 与托木斯克的 Pavel Postnikov。
The inorganic group holds Latifa Bergaoui and Halim Hammi from Tunis, Said Kenai and Bidyut Saha from Burdwan, Carlos A. Martinez-Huitle from Natal and Juan Jose Sunol from Girona.无机组里有突尼斯的 Latifa Bergaoui 与 Halim Hammi、伯德万的 Said Kenai 与 Bidyut Saha、纳塔尔的 Carlos A. Martinez-Huitle 与赫罗纳的 Juan Jose Sunol。
The analytical group is the widest, and it runs from Aziz Amine in Casablanca through Michael Badawi in Nancy and Lasâad Dammak in Paris to Modou Fall in Dakar and Philiswa Nomngongo in Johannesburg.分析组铺得最开，从卡萨布兰卡的 Aziz Amine，经南锡的 Michael Badawi 与巴黎的 Lasâad Dammak，到达喀尔的 Modou Fall 与约翰内斯堡的 Philiswa Nomngongo。
That spread is the point of the masthead, since a journal claiming African chemistry needs editors in Dakar, Johannesburg and Casablanca rather than only in Paris and Nancy.这张名单铺开本身就是用意，一本声称面向非洲化学的刊物，编委得在达喀尔、约翰内斯堡、卡萨布兰卡，不能只留在欧洲。
Review is double-blind and runs for at least two rounds, and the aims page states that no paper is accepted before the raised issues have been answered.评审是双盲的，至少走两轮，宗旨页写明，提出的问题没有逐条回应之前不予接受。
Authors may rebut, and the rebuttal goes back to the same reviewer and editor rather than to a fresh pair, which keeps the argument in one place.作者可以申辩，申辩回到同一位审稿人与编辑手上，不另换一对人，争论因此留在原处。
The average time from submission to a final decision is given as 100 days and the acceptance rate as about 36 per cent, both stated on the journal page.从投稿到终审的平均时间写作 100 天，接受率约 36%，两个数字都印在期刊页上。
Once a year the executive editor-in-chief meets the society board, some editors and the Springer publishing editor to review the journal and decide on new special issues.每年一次，执行主编与学会理事会、部分编辑以及 Springer 的责任编辑碰头，复盘刊物并定下新的专辑。