About

ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.

It gives researchers across a broad range of chemistry fields the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and respond to comments and recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.

Use ChemRxiv to:

Gather feedback and context from fellow scientists
Rapidly disseminate work to a wide audience
Establish the priority and precedence of a discovery
Boost the visibility of research findings
Find potential collaborators and hold interdisciplinary discussions
Document research results for grant reviewers in advance of publication
Facilitate rapid evaluation of results
Spot trends and encourage a broad range of constructive feedback

All of this can improve the reliability of the final research.

Our preprints come from the author's original files, and are not prepared for publication. ChemRxiv conducts a basic screen for plagiarism, offensive language, and non-scientific content, and will exclude materials that may pose a health or security risk if identified. Beyond this, the files are unedited, and are not peer-reviewed.

Scope

If your article covers any aspect of the chemical sciences, it can be included in ChemRxiv. You will be asked to select from one of the following categories during submission:

Agriculture and food chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Biological and medicinal chemistry
Catalysis
Chemical education
Chemical engineering and industrial chemistry
Earth, space, and environmental chemistry
Energy

Inorganic chemistry
Materials science
Nanoscience
Organic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Physical chemistry
Polymer science
Theoretical and computational chemistry

Complementary preprint services, such as arXiv and bioRxiv, are available for articles that do not cover a relevant area of the chemical sciences.

The ChemRxiv partnership

ChemRxiv is co-owned, and collaboratively managed by the American Chemical Society (ACS), Chinese Chemical Society, Chemical Society of Japan, German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

With five of the world's largest chemical societies driving its development, ChemRxiv will enable efficient and timely dissemination of chemistry knowledge, help authors and researchers around the world communicate their work across disciplines, and provide a forum through which to share and discover the very latest findings.

Scientific Advisory Board

The ChemRxiv Scientific Advisory Board is a group of experts across diverse subject areas who advise the management of ChemRxiv on the types of content that fit as preprints and the standards that preprints should be held to. They act as liaisons for their peers in the scientific community and can bring new ideas, concerns and feedback to grow the service in accordance with the needs and desires of the chemical community. The current members of the Scientific Advisory Board are as follows: