Main Group Metal Chemistry
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Editor-in-Chief:
Klaus Jurkschat
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Managing Editor:
Izabela Żarczyńska
About this journal
Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing manuscripts addressing the theoretical, spectroscopic, mechanistic, and synthetic aspects of inorganic, coordination and organometallic main group metal and semi-metal compounds. Manuscripts focused on other metals may be also submitted. The journal publishes studies relating to environmental aspects of these metals and semi-metals, their toxicology, release pathways and fate. Articles on the applications of metals, including in the fields of polymer chemistry, agriculture, electronics and catalysis, are also accepted.
It is poised to captivate a diverse readership across the fields of chemistry and biotechnology, including scholars who would like to gain profound insights into the latest scientific breakthroughs, as well as non-scholarly readers, who seek to expand their knowledge and deepen their understanding with reference to the newest discoveries in the field of science.
Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond) assures the top quality of published data through critical peer-review and editorial involvement throughout the entire publication process. Clear presentation of experimental and computational data is strongly emphasized. Thanks to the Open Access model, it also offers unrestricted access to published articles for all users.
The published content includes original research and review articles, mini-reviews, rapid communications, editorials and erratums.
Aims and Scope
The journal aims to facilitate the communication and collaboration of scientists across different countries.
Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond) accepts especially manuscripts containing results about the chemistry of the following metals and semi-metals:
- lithium to cesium,
- beryllium to barium,
- boron to thallium,
- silicon to lead,
- phosphorus to bismuth,
- selenium and tellurium,
- and also zinc, cadmium, and mercury.
Manuscripts containing results about the chemistry of other metals can be also considered for publication.
The scope of Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond) covers scholarly research in:
- Main group metal and semi-metal compounds
- Coordination compounds and metallo-organic complexes
- Spectroscopy
- Toxicology
- Metal release pathways and fate
- Applications of main group metal chemistry
- Polymers
- Chemistry of other metals
Your Benefits
Why submit
As an Author of Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond), You benefit from:
- fair and constructive peer review
- quick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model)
- language correction services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regions
- no limitations on colour figures and word count in published articles
- all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictions
- promotion of published papers to readers and citers
- distribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwide
- liberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods)
- secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
Why read
- You can access all significant developments in chemistry of selected metals and semi-metals
- Researchers use journal as a platform to reveal data that is likely to advance the direction and the thinking of the field
- It is an international forum for the dissemination of research data in field of metal chemistry
- The publication is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers from different countries
Special Issues
You can submit your Special Issue proposal by contacting Managing Editor at Izabela.Zarczynska@degruyter.com
Article Processing Charges
In order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond) is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €1050. This fee is used to cover the costs of the peer-review process, professional typesetting and copyediting, as well as online hosting, long-term preservation, and extensive promotion to potential readers. There is no submission fee. Information regarding payment of the charge will be provided following acceptance for publication. For more information please go to Article Processing Charges.
Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies
Detailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found in the Supplementary Materials section.
For more information on De Gruyter Publishing Ethics, please see the De Gruyter Guidelines online here.
Conferences/Events
Conference/Event Managers interested in starting a collaboration are encouraged to submit their proposal by contacting Managing Editor at Izabela.Zarczynska@degruyter.com
History
Previously published by Freund Publishing House Ltd.
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| Journal Impact Factor | 1.2 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 1.3 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 0.47 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 3.3 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.248 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.415 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
MANUSCRIPTS
Main Group Metal Chemistry (& beyond) encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.
All submissions must be made via online submission system ScholarOne. In case of problems, please contact the Managing Editor of this journal (izabela.zarczynska@degruyter.com).
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in MS Word. For your initial submission, we recommend you upload your entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. If you are invited to submit a revised manuscript, please provide us with individual files: an editable text and publication-quality figures.
For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors.
EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.
Editor-in-Chief
Klaus Jurkschat, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Technical University of Dortmund; Dortmund, Germany
Managing Editor
Izabela Żarczyńska
Izabela.Zarczynska@degruyter.com
Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com
Editorial Board
David Atwood, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky; Lexington, USA
Tushar S. Basu Baul, Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Hill University; Shillong, India
Jens Beckmann, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography, University of Bremen; Bremen, Germany
Vadepalli Chandrasekhar, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology; Kanpur, India
Keith Izod, School of Chemistry, Newcastle University; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Cameron Jones, School of Chemistry, Monash University; Clayton, Australia
Sergey S. Karlov, Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Moscow, Russian Federation
Michael Mehring, Institute of Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology; Chemnitz, Germany
Kieran Molloy, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath; Bath, UK
Muhammad M. Naseer, Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University; Islamabad, Pakistan
Ponnadurai Ramasami, Department of Chemistry, University of Mauritius; Réduit, Mauritius
Karin Ruhlandt-Senge, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University; Syracuse, USA
Masaichi Saito, Department of Chemistry, Saitama University; Saitama, Japan
Yann Sarazin, Institute of Chemistry of Rennes, University of Rennes; Rennes, France
Norihiro Tokitoh, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University; Kyoto, Japan
Jörg Wagler, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology; Freiberg, Germany
Publisher
DE GRUYTER Poland
Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str.
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15
Editorial Contact
Izabela Żarczyńska
Izabela.Zarczynska@degruyter.com
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