Overview
Journal of Cheminformatics is a fully open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics. Coverage includes, but is not limited to:
- chemical information systems, software and databases, and method development for molecular modelling
- chemical structure representations and their use in structure, substructure, and similarity searching of chemical substance and chemical reaction databases
- computer and molecular graphics, computer-aided molecular design, expert systems, QSAR, and data mining techniques
Journal of Cheminformatics is lead by an esteemed editorial team of global recognized scientists specializing in cheminformatics. The journal is well indexed by CAS, DOAJ, Scopus, SCIE, PubMed Central, etc.
- Editors-in-Chief
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- Karina Martinez-Mayorga BSc, PhD
- Barbara Zdrazil, Dr. rer. nat., Mag. pharm., PhD
Journal metrics
- Journal Impact Factor
- 7.9 (2025)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 10.0 (2025)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 10 days
- Downloads
- 2.3M (2025)
Journal highlights
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Featured collections
View the latest special collections of the journal: 1) Milestones in Cheminformatics 2) AI in Drug Discovery
Calls for papers
Collection
AI and XAI in Drug Discovery
This collection covers cutting-edge novel methodological contributions on the edge of machine learning and chemistry in the rapidly evolving area...
- Status
- Open for submissions
- Submission deadline
- 13 January 2027
- Status
- Open for submissions
- Submission deadline
- Ongoing
Latest articles
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EvoDiffMol: evolutionary diffusion framework for 3D molecular design with optimized properties
- Xiaobo Lin
- Logan T. Kearney
- Debsindhu Bhowmik
Research Open access 15 July 2026 Article: 98
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Evaluation of deep learning architectures for predicting ligand interactions with neurologically relevant GPCRs
- Souvik Dey
- Pinyi Lu
- Mohamed Diwan M. AbdulHameed
Research Open access 15 July 2026 -
Smiles-based bioactivity prediction through molecular encoder selection and data augmentation
- Ju Hyung Lee
- Seongik Choi
- Wesley De Neve
Research Open access 06 July 2026
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ScrambleBench: a workflow for comparative assessment of structure-based de novo generative models
- Veincent Yap
- Pan Xu
- Weijun Xu
Research Open access 06 July 2026
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MINERVA: a public XAI-powered platform advancing multi-target discovery in Alzheimer’s disease
- Nicola Gambacorta
- Daniela Trisciuzzi
- Orazio Nicolotti
Research Open access 06 July 2026
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1758-2946
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
- DBLP
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- Gale
- GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Ovid Discovery
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PubMedCentral
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- Wanfang
- eLibrary.ru
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