Topics in Current Chemistry

Topics in Current Chemistry is a peer-reviewed review journal published by Springer International Publishing that was launched in 2016 as a continuation of the book series of the same name and that presents critical reviews across all areas of chemistry, and it carries a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.9《当代化学专题》（Topics in Current Chemistry）是施普林格国际出版（Springer International Publishing）主办的同行评审评论期刊，2016 年由同名丛书改刊而来，刊载覆盖化学各领域现状与趋势的评论文章，2025 年影响因子为 10.9。

Scope

• The journal presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research, and the scope of coverage includes all areas of chemical science together with the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine, physics and materials science该刊发表现代化学研究现状与未来趋势的评论文章，覆盖范围包括化学科学的所有领域，以及化学与生物学、医学、物理学和材料科学等相关学科的交叉界面。
• Its overview describes it as a source of critical reviews on emerging trends in modern chemical research and its intersections with disciplines like biology, medicine, physics and material science其官方概述将该刊定位为提供现代化学研究新兴趋势及其与生物学、医学、物理学和材料科学等学科交叉研究成果评论的来源。
• The goal of each thematic collection is to give the non-specialist reader, whether in academia or in industry, a comprehensive insight into an area where new research is emerging that is of interest to a larger scientific audience每个主题专辑的目标，是让学术界或工业界的非专业读者对正在兴起、并为更广泛科学界关注的研究领域获得全面而深入的认识。
• Each review within a topical collection critically surveys one aspect of that topic and places it within the context of the collection as a whole主题专辑中的每篇评论批判性地考察该主题的一个侧面，并将其置于整部专辑的语境之中。
• The most significant developments of the last five to ten years are presented using selected examples, and the coverage is meant to be conceptual rather than an exhaustive summary of the field文章以精选范例呈现近五至十年间最重要的进展，重在概念性梳理，而非对领域作穷尽式总结。
• Contributions also offer an outlook on potential future developments in the field来稿还展望相关领域潜在的发展方向。
• The journal only publishes in-depth review articles, and a typical review has a length of about 25 printed pages including 8100 words of text, 20 figures and 100 references该刊仅发表深度评论文章，一篇典型评论长约 25 个印刷页，含正文 8100 词、插图 20 幅与参考文献 100 条。
• Topical collections are on invitation only, and contributions to the journal are usually invited by a guest editor of a topical collection主题专辑仅限邀请制，投向该刊的稿件通常由主题专辑的客座编辑邀约。

History

• The publication began as the book series （Fortschritte der chemischen Forschung）, which appeared as volumes one to thirty-nine from 1949 to 1973该出版物前身为丛书（Fortschritte der chemischen Forschung），1949 年至 1973 年间出版第 1 至 39 卷。
• From volume forty in 1973 the series was renamed （Topics in Current Chemistry） and continued under print ISSN 0340-1022 until volume three hundred and seventy-three in 2016自 1973 年第 40 卷起，该丛书更名为（Topics in Current Chemistry），并以印刷版 ISSN 0340-1022 持续出版至 2016 年第 373 卷。
• Springer relaunched the series as an online journal in 2016, and the first articles of the relaunched journal were published online in December 2015 in volume three hundred and seventy-four施普林格于 2016 年将该丛书改版为在线期刊，改刊后的首批文章于 2015 年 12 月以第 374 卷在线发表。^[1]
• The journal has been indexed in MEDLINE since volume three hundred and seventy-four issue one in February 2016, and it is covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded and by Scopus该刊自 2016 年 2 月出版的第 374 卷第 1 期起被 MEDLINE 收录，并被科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 9.06 for 2021, 8.905 for 2022, 8.8 for 2024 and 10.9 for 2025, and its 5-year Journal Impact Factor is 9.0 for 2025其影响因子 2021 年为 9.06，2022 年为 8.905，2024 年为 8.8，2025 年为 10.9，2025 年 5 年影响因子为 9.0。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the journal ranks thirty-second of two hundred and fifty titles in the first quartile of the category Chemistry, Multidisciplinary在 2025 年版《期刊引证报告》中，该刊在综合化学类 250 种期刊中位列第 32 名，居第一分区（Q1）。

Editors

• Massimo Olivucci and Wai-Yeung Raymond Wong are the editors-in-chief of the journal（Massimo Olivucci）与（Wai-Yeung Raymond Wong）任该刊主编。
• Massimo Olivucci is a professor in the Chemistry Department at Bowling Green State University in the United States and in the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Siena in Italy（Massimo Olivucci）为美国博林格林州立大学（Bowling Green State University）化学系教授，并任意大利锡耶纳大学（University of Siena）生物技术、化学与药学系教授。
• Wai-Yeung Raymond Wong is a professor in the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University（Wai-Yeung Raymond Wong）为香港理工大学（Hong Kong Polytechnic University）应用生物及化学科技学系教授。
• The editorial board comprises seventeen editors, among them Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn of the University of Strasbourg and Hagan Bayley of the University of Oxford编委会由 17 位编辑组成，其中包括诺贝尔化学奖得主、斯特拉斯堡大学（University of Strasbourg）的（Jean-Marie Lehn）与牛津大学（University of Oxford）的（Hagan Bayley）。
• Board members hold positions at institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Colombia, mainland China and Hong Kong编委任职机构分布于美国、英国、意大利、法国、德国、日本、韩国、哥伦比亚、中国内地与香港等地。
• The journal follows a single-blind review process, acceptance requires two independent assessments by an editor, guest editor or editorial board member, and the journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics该刊实行单盲评审制度，论文录用须经编辑、客座编辑或编委会成员作出的两项独立评审，该刊并为国际出版伦理委员会（COPE）成员。
• The journal reports a median of 14 days from submission to first decision and 340.2 thousand downloads in 2025该刊公布的投稿至首次作出决定的时长中位数为 14 天，2025 年全文下载量约 34.02 万次。