About this journal
Aims and scope
Molecular Physics is a well-established international journal publishing original high quality papers in chemical physics and physical chemistry. The journal covers all experimental and theoretical aspects of molecular science, from electronic structure, molecular dynamics, spectroscopy and reaction kinetics to condensed matter, surface science, and statistical mechanics of simple and complex fluids. Contributions include full papers, preliminary communications, research notes and invited topical review articles.
Routine work, for example, application of electronic structure calculations should yield new and interesting physical insights.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, papers are subject to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized.
Publishing EthicsThe Journal adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. Taylor & Francis is a member of Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE) and utilises CrossCheck for all Journals. More information on our ethical standards and policies can be found here: http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ethics-for-authors/
Who reads Molecular Physics?
Research workers in university departments and research institutions in physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry, spectroscopy, chemical physics, biophysics and applied mathematics.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 316K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.6 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.530 (2023) SNIP
- 0.326 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 14 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 26 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 10 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 43% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Professor George Jackson (Chairman) - Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Professor Martin Head-Gordon - Department of Chemistry, Room 419 Latimer Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460, USA
Professor Trygve Helgaker - Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O.B. 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Norway
Professor Wenjian Liu - Qingdao Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences, Shandong University, Room 314, Building K1, Binhai 72, Jimo, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, P. R. China
Professor Andreas Osterwalder - Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (ISIC), EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Advisory Board:
S. Ashbrook – University of St Andrews, UK
D. Frenkel - University of Cambridge, UK
A. Galindo - Imperial College London, UK
J. Gauss - University of Mainz, Germany
A. Gil-Villegas – University of Guanajuato, Mexico
C. McCabe – Heriot-Watt University, UK
F. Merkt - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
M. Quack - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
H. F. Schaefer III - University of Georgia at Athens, USA
P. Schwerdtfeger – Massey University, New Zealand
T. P. Softley - University of Birmingham, UK
C. Timmel - University of Oxford, UK
D. J. Tozer - University of Durham, UK
H.-J. Werner - University of Stuttgart, Germany
R. Wester – University of Innsbruck, Austria
S. Willitsch - University of Basel, Switzerland
J. Yeomans - University of Oxford, UK
Editorial Board:
F. Bresme - Imperial College London, UK
P. J. Camp - University of Edinburgh, UK
T. Carrington - Queen’s University, Canada
L. Cheng – Johns Hopkins University, USA
S. Coriani - University of Trieste, Italy
T. D. Crawford - Virginia Tech, USA
A. G. Császár - Eötvös University, Hungary
M. Dijkstra - Utrecht University, Netherlands
C. Domene - Bath University, UK
M. Ernst - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
M. D. Esrafili - University of Maragheh, Iran
J.-M. Flaud - LISAA, France
P. W. Fowler - University of Sheffield, UK
D. Ghosh – IACS, India
L. Gagliardi - University of Minnesota, USA
D. Goldfarb - Weizmann Institute, Israel
J. P. Hansen - University of Cambridge, UK
T. Head-Gordon - University of California, Berkeley, USA
M. Herman - Free University of Brussels, Belgium
P. J. Hore - University of Oxford, UK
P. Hunt - Imperial College London, UK
K. Ivanov - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
M. Jing - Fuzhou University, China
S. Kais - Purdue University, USA
M. Kallay - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
W. Klopper - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
D. Kofke - University at Buffalo, USA
E. Kraka - Southern Methodist University, USA
A. Krylov - University of Southern California, USA
S. Li - Nanjing University, China
W. Liang - Xiamen University, China
C. N. Likos - University of Vienna, Austria
R. Lindh - Uppsala University, Sweden
S. Luber – University of Zurich, Switzerland
H. Ma – Shandong University, China
S. Mackenzie - University of Oxford, UK
E. Matyus – Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
S. van de Meerakker - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
C. Miqueu – Pau University, France
I. Nezbeda - Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Republic
C. Ochsenfeld - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
J. Orphal – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
A. Z. Panagiotopoulos -Princeton University, USA
D. H. Parker - Institute for Molecules and Materials, Netherlands
K. Pernal – Lodz University of Technology, Poland
K. Reid - University of Nottingham, UK
R. Riek - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
B. Rotenberg - Sorbonne University, France
A. Savin - Sorbonne University, France
M. Schnell - Max Planck Institute, Germany
I Siepman – Minnesota University, USA
R. Signorell - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
A. K. Soper - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
J. F. Stanton - University of Florida, USA
V. Stavros – University of Warwick, UK
H.-J. Steinhoff - University of Osnabrueck, Germany
S. Stopkowicz – Saarland University, Germany
D. Sundholm - University of Helsinki, Finland
P. R. Taylor - Aarhus University, Denmark
M. Telo da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal
S. Ten-no - Kobe University, Japan
W. Ubachs - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
C. Vega - University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
N. B. Wilding - University of Bath, UK
X. Xu - Fudan University, China
K. Yamanouchi – University of Tokyo, Japan
R. N. Zare - Stanford University, USA
D. H. Zhang - Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Abstracting and indexing
Molecular Physics is indexed in:
- Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- Chimica
- ISI Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Services
- EI Compendex
- Google Scholar
- Inspec
- ProQuest
- Science Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
- The Polymer Library.
Open access
Molecular Physics is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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