The Journal of the American Chemical Society (also known as JACS) is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society. The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (July 1893) and the American Chemical Journal (January 1914). It covers all fields of chemistry. Since 2021, the editor-in-chief is Erick M. Carreira (ETH Zurich). In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing model.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Biological Abstracts • BIOSIS Previews • Chemical Abstracts Service • Current Chemical Reactions • Current Contents/Life Sciences • Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences • EBSCO databases • Index Chemicus • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • ProQuest databases • Science Citation Index Expanded • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 14.4.

Editors-in-chief

The following people are or have been editor-in-chief: • 1879–1880 – Hermann Endemann • 1880–1881 – Gideon E. Moore • 1881–1882 – Hermann Endemann • 1882–1883 – Editorial Committee • 1884–1892 – Abram A. Breneman • 1893–1901 – Edward Hart • 1902–1917 – William A. Noyes Sr. • 1918–1949 – Arthur Lamb • 1950–1962 – W. Albert Noyes Jr. • 1963–1969 – Marshall D. Gates Jr. • 1969–1975 – Martin Stiles • 1975–1981 – Cheves Walling • 1982–2001 – Allen J. Bard • 2002–2020 – Peter J. Stang • since 2021 – Erick M. Carreira