Open Chemistry takes work from every branch of the subject, and its aims page sets out the ground in blocks rather than in one sentence. Biological chemistry and biochemistry come first, with bioanalytical chemistry inside that block.《Open Chemistry》收化学各分支的稿子，宗旨页把地基按块铺开，每块点名一组方向。第一块是生物化学，生物分析化学列在块内。
Organic, inorganic, physical and materials chemistry follow, and the journal has kept the door open to applied work that a general chemistry title might turn away.有机、无机、物理与材料化学依次排下来，对一份综合化学刊来说通常会挡在门外的应用类工作，它也留着入口。
Everything is published in English under a full open access model, and the author keeps copyright unless local law prevents it.全部内容以英文在完全开放获取模式下发表，著作权归作者，除非当地法律不允许。
There are no issues in the usual sense. A volume is a year, it carries a single number, and papers appear in it as they are ready.这里没有通常意义上的分期。一卷就是一年，卷内只有一个期号，稿子准备好一篇就进一篇。
That arrangement suits a journal whose output swings. Volume 21 held 180 papers in 2023 while volume 23 held 90 in 2025, and neither year left the volume looking thin or overstuffed.这种安排适合产量起伏的刊。第 21 卷 2023 年装了 180 篇，第 23 卷 2025 年只有 90 篇，两年都没有让这一卷显得空或胀。
Review is single-blind. The author is known to the referee and the referee is not known to the author, and the rules require at least two referees before a paper can be accepted.评审是单盲的。审稿人知道作者是谁，作者不知道审稿人是谁，规则要求稿子至少经两位审稿人才能录用。
The final decision rests with the managing editor, or with the editor-in-chief when the two editors disagree about a paper.最终决定权在执行编辑手上，两位主编对一篇稿子意见相左时，则由主编裁定。
A manuscript that is not novel enough to be worth reviewing can be declined without review, and the journal says so on the same page as the review rules.新颖程度不足以送审的稿子，不经评审即可退稿，这句话与评审规则写在同一页上。
Special issues are the journal's way of gathering a field. Recent ones took in phytochemicals and the toxicological analysis of medicinal plants, and the recent trends in green chemistry.专辑是这份刊聚拢一个领域的办法。近几期收过植物化学成分与药用植物的毒理分析，还有绿色化学的新近走向。
Those issues are coordinated by guest editors rather than by the standing board. Riaz Ullah has coordinated two of them and Sezai Ercisli shared the second.这类专号由客座编辑统筹，不归常设编委管。Riaz Ullah 统筹过其中两期，第二期与 Sezai Ercisli 共同署名。
From 2025 the journal awards a best paper prize in every issue. The associate editors and the editor-in-chief choose it, and the authors get a certificate and a waiver for a later submission.从 2025 年起，这份刊每一期评一篇最佳论文。由副主编与主编共同选出，作者拿到证书，并可免掉一次将来投稿的费用。
Papers carry a DOI at the level of the article, which is what makes a continuously built volume citable before the year is out.论文按篇给 DOI，一卷边出边收，还没到年底就能被引用。
The journal states plainly that it publishes only original work, and that a manuscript under review elsewhere is grounds for rejection rather than for a quiet withdrawal.刊方明说只登原创工作，同时投给别处的稿子按退稿处理，不走悄悄撤稿的路子。
When a problem is found after publication, the remedy offered is a retraction note, and the editors say they follow the Committee on Publication Ethics in each case.发表之后发现问题，给出的补救是撤稿声明，编辑说每一起都按出版伦理委员会的做法处理。
History
The first issue is dated 1 March 2003, and the volume list on the publisher's page runs from volume 1 of that year to volume 24 in 2026 without a gap.第一期署 2003 年 3 月 1 日，出版方页上的卷次表从那一年的第 1 卷一直排到 2026 年的第 24 卷，中间没有断口。
The present name arrived at volume 13 in 2015, which is why the National Library of Medicine catalogues the title from 2015 and not from 2003.今天的刊名从 2015 年的第 13 卷起用，美国国家医学图书馆的编目因此从 2015 年算起，不从 2003 年算。
The earlier twelve volumes appeared under the journal's previous name, and the publisher counts them in the same run rather than starting a new one.之前的十二卷用的是上一代的刊名，出版方把它们算在同一个卷次序列里，没有另起一套。
The imprint changed hands within the same house. The journal is now issued by De Gruyter Brill out of an office on Nowogrodzka in Warsaw.出版印记在同一家出版机构内部换过名字。这份刊如今由 De Gruyter Brill 在华沙 Nowogrodzka 街的办公处出版。
Output has moved a great deal. Volumes from 2018 to 2024 ran between 121 and 180 papers, then volume 23 fell to 90 and volume 24 stands at 72 with the year not yet finished.产量变动很大。2018 到 2024 年各卷在 121 到 180 篇之间，之后第 23 卷落回 90 篇，第 24 卷在年度未完时是 72 篇。
The Crossref deposit holds 2,807 records, which covers the run from volume 16 of 2018 onward in continuous form.Crossref 的存缴有 2,807 条记录，从 2018 年的第 16 卷起连续齐备。
The impact factor went from 1.554 in 2021 to 1.977 in 2022, reached 2.1 in 2023, slipped to 1.9 in 2024 and rose to 2.4 in 2025.影响因子从 2021 年的 1.554 升到 2022 年的 1.977，2023 年到 2.1，2024 年回落到 1.9，2025 年升到 2.4。
The five-year figure of 2.3 sits just under the two-year figure of 2.4, so the recent papers are doing the work of keeping the average up.五年影响因子 2.3 略低于两年值的 2.4，撑住均值的是近期论文。
Scopus gives a CiteScore of 4.5 and an SJR of 0.416, and the source normalised impact per paper is 0.671.Scopus 给的 CiteScore 是 4.5，SJR 是 0.416，按来源归一化的篇均影响是 0.671。
Total citations are 2,688 and the cited half-life is 4.7 years, short enough that the journal lives on what it published lately.总被引 2,688 次，引用半衰期 4.7 年，短到说明这份刊靠的是近年发的东西。
The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.34 and the title sits in Q3 of Multidisciplinary Chemistry at 149 of 250, with a percentile of 40.6.期刊引文指标 0.34，在化学综合门类里列 Q3，250 种刊中排第 149 位，百分位 40.6。
Every article is gold open access, so the 100 per cent figure in the citation report is the model at work rather than a coincidence.每篇论文都是金色开放获取，引文报告里那个百分之百是模式本身的结果，不是碰巧。
PubMed takes selected citations only, and the National Library of Medicine records the frequency as annual, which matches the one number a year the publisher issues.PubMed 只做选择性收录，国家医学图书馆把出版周期记作一年一次，与出版方一年一个期号的做法一致。
Editors
Snezana D. Zaric and Nebojsa Pantelic, both at the University of Belgrade, are editors-in-chief, and they are listed on the journal page in that order.两位主编 Snezana D. Zaric 与 Nebojsa Pantelic 都在贝尔格莱德大学，刊页上按这个次序排列。
Two senior editors sit between them and the section editors, Dusan Malenov of Belgrade and Arpita Singh of Intel in the United States.两位资深编辑夹在主编与分栏编辑之间，是贝尔格莱德的 Dusan Malenov 与美国英特尔公司的 Arpita Singh。
An editorial advisory board runs above the section structure. Biljana Arsic of Nis, Carlos Fernandez of Robert Gordon University and Jacek Klinowski of Cambridge are on it.结构之上还有一层编辑顾问委员会。尼什的 Biljana Arsic、罗伯特戈登大学的 Carlos Fernandez 与剑桥的 Jacek Klinowski 在列。
The section editors are grouped by subject rather than by name. Bioanalytical chemistry carries Maria Luisa Astolfi of Sapienza and Costel C. Darie of Clarkson.分栏编辑按学科分组，不按姓氏罗列。生物分析化学一栏有罗马大学的 Maria Luisa Astolfi 与克拉克森大学的 Costel C. Darie。
Biochemistry and the biological block carry Iryna Kravchenko of Odessa Polytechnic and Belgin Sever of Anadolu, so the two ends of that subject are represented by an editor each.生物化学与生物这一块由敖德萨理工的 Iryna Kravchenko 与安纳多卢大学的 Belgin Sever 分担，一段一位。
Junior editors handle the load that would otherwise fall on the section editors. Paweł Hać of Gdansk and Saborni Biswas of Penn State hold those posts.初级编辑接走本来会落到分栏编辑身上的那部分活。格但斯克的 Paweł Hać 与宾州州立的 Saborni Biswas 在这个位子上。
A managing editor's office is the address printed for everything else, and proposals for special issues go there rather than to a named editor.其余事务都指向执行编辑的办公室，专号选题也递到那里，不经某位署名编辑。
The best paper prize is decided by the associate editors together with the editor-in-chief, which is the only editorial judgement the journal makes public in advance.最佳论文奖由副主编与主编一起定，这是这份刊事先公开的唯一一项编辑判断。
Guest editors are drawn from outside the board for special issues, and the coordinating credits are printed beside the issue rather than in the masthead.专号用的客座编辑从编委会之外找，统筹者的名字印在专号旁边，不列进刊头。
The board is large for a journal that publishes under a hundred papers in a recent year, and the reason is the block structure, which needs a specialist at the head of every subject it covers.对一份近年一年不到一百篇的刊来说，这个编委会偏大，原因是按块分工的结构，每块都要一位专家压阵。