Ten years of JICS

Abstract

Congratulations, Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society (JICS) is now 10 years old. Initially, the journal used to be published as a quarterly journal; but after 8 years of its establishment and from the beginning of 2011, JICS is published bimonthly by Springer. JICS was the fourth Iranian scientific journal indexed in many international data bases including Science Citation Index-Expanded in Thomson Reuters since 2004, when the first issue of the journal was published. During the last 10 years, a total of 906 scientific documents have been published in JICS including 872 original articles, 32 review articles, 1 biographical item and 1 correction. 67 % of the published documents have been submitted by Iranian authors and 33 % by foreign authors. JICS has obtained total citations of 4,526, of which 86 % of citations were non-self-citations. The average citation per published item was 5.0, and the h-index of the journal was 27. Ten authors have published more than ten documents in the journal. The average number of authors per published item was equal to 3.5.