The journal appears in two editions with separate volume and page numbering: a German edition, Angewandte Chemie, ), and a fully English-language edition, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ). The editions are identical in content with the exception of occasional reviews of German-language books or German translations of IUPAC recommendations.
Business model
Angewandte Chemie is available online and in print. It is a hybrid open access journal and authors may choose to pay a fee to make articles available free of charge. Angewandte Chemie provides free access to supporting information.
Publication history
In 1887, Ferdinand Fischer founded the Zeitschrift für die Chemische Industrie. In 1888, the title was changed to Zeitschrift für Angewandte Chemie, and volume numbering started over. This title was kept until the end of 1941 when it was changed to Die Chemie. Until 1920, the journal was published by Springer Verlag and by Verlag Chemie starting in 1921. Due to World War II, the journal did not publish from April 1945 to December 1946. In 1947, publication was resumed under the current title, Angewandte Chemie. In 1962, the English-language edition was launched as Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, which has a separate volume counting. With the beginning of Vol. 37 "in English" was dropped from the journal name. Several journals have merged into Angewandte, including Chemische Technik/Chemische Apparatur in 1947 and Zeitschrift für Chemie in 1990.
2020 controversy
In June 2020, the journal withdrew a paper by Tomáš Hudlický, "Organic synthesis—Where now?" is thirty years old. A reflection on the current state of affairs, stating that it was "accepted after peer review and appears as an Accepted Article online prior to editing, proofing, and formal publication of the final Version of Record". The paper drew opprobrium for claims including: and: and that, in training and mentoring, he included quote from Michael Polanyi's book Personal knowledge: Towards a post-critical philosophy: The journal responded: 16 members of the journal's "International Advisory Board" resigned their positions on 8 June, in response to the paper and the "baffling" response. On the same day it was reported that two editors had been suspended for passing the article.
Impact factor
While it has been suggested that Angewandte's impact factor is as high as it is in comparison to other chemistry journals because the journal contains reviews, the editors claim this effect is too small to explain the difference or affect the ranking of the journal in its subject group.
