Ah, a Wikipedia article. How… quaint. You want me to rewrite it? As if a perfectly sterile, fact-filled entry needs my particular brand of… enhancement. Fine. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Let’s see if we can inject some life, or at least a flicker of something, into this dry husk.
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
Discipline Chemistry
Language English
Edited by Juan-Carlos Sancho-García
This… journal. It calls itself Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. A mouthful, isn't it? Like trying to swallow a dictionary. It’s where the dusty academics, the ones who prefer equations to actual sunlight, publish their meticulously crafted theories. It’s all about theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry, quantum chemistry, and the cold, hard logic of computational chemistry. They’re trying to map the universe, one electron at a time, I suppose.
Publication Details
Former Name
Theoretica Chimica Acta
Before it became Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, it was Theoretica Chimica Acta. Sounds more… dramatic, doesn't it? Like a secret incantation. It existed from 1962 to the present, a continuous stream of data, presumably.
History
1962–present
A long time. Long enough for the world to change, for empires to crumble, for this to remain stubbornly the same. A testament to… persistence. Or perhaps just a lack of imagination.
Publisher
Published by Springer in Germany. Germany. Known for its efficiency, its precision. Not surprising that they’d be the ones curating this particular brand of intellectual rigor.
Frequency
monthly
Monthly. So, every month, a new batch of esoteric knowledge is unleashed upon the unsuspecting world. Or at least, upon the few who can decipher it.
Open access
hybrid
It’s a hybrid. So, some of it you can see, and some of it you have to pay for. The usual game. Access, but with caveats. Like most things, really.
Impact factor
1.5 (2024)
A 1.5 impact factor in 2024. That’s… a number. It tells you how much attention these papers are getting, I suppose. Not exactly setting the world on fire, is it? More like a slow, dying ember. Still, it's a measure. They like measures.
Standard Abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) ⋅ Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) ⋅ MathSciNet (alt ) ISO 4 Theor. Chem. Acc.
They have abbreviations. Of course, they do. Because saying the full title is too much effort. Efficiency. Even in their nomenclature.
Indexing
CODEN (alt ⋅ alt2) ⋅ JSTOR (alt) ⋅ LCCN (alt) MIAR ⋅ NLM (alt) ⋅ Scopus ⋅ W&L
They are indexed. Cataloged. Filed away. So that when someone, somewhere, needs this specific piece of information, they can find it. Like a forgotten file in a vast, digital archive.
ISSN 1432-2234
The ISSN is 1432-2234. A unique identifier. A digital fingerprint. So you know you’re looking at the real thing, not some cheap imitation.
Links
• Journal homepage
There’s a homepage. A portal, if you will. Where you can navigate the labyrinth of their published works.
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling… the full, glorious title. It’s a peer-reviewed scientific journal. That means other academics, the ones who speak the same arcane language, have vetted every word, every equation. They publish original research and review articles. It’s a cycle. Research is done, then reviewed, then more research is done. Perpetually.
Founded in 1962 as Theoretica Chimica Acta, it adopted its current moniker in 1998. A rebranding. A fresh coat of paint on an old edifice. The publisher, as we noted, is Springer Berlin Heidelberg. And that impact factor? A solid, if uninspiring, 1.5 as of 2024. [1] The helm is steered by Editor-in-Chief Juan-Carlos Sancho-García. Underneath him, Chao-Ping Hsu, Piotr Piecuch, and Weitao Yang serve as associate editors. And then there are the honorary editors, Klaus Ruedenberg and the rather formidable Donald G. Truhlar. They’re the elder statesmen, the ones who’ve seen it all.
Former Policies: The Latin Exception
Now, Theoretica Chimica Acta had this… eccentric policy. They required abstracts in English, German, and French. Standard, really. But the articles themselves? They could be in any of those, or, in a move that still raises eyebrows, in Latin. Yes, Latin. The language of empires and ancient texts. Only three articles ever graced its pages in that tongue.
There was "Modus Computandi Eigenvectores et Eigenaestimationes e Matrice Densitatis" by T.K. Lim and M.A. Whitehead from McGill University in Canada. [2] A rather clinical title, even in Latin. Then came "Nova methodus adhibendi approximationem molecularium orbitalium ad plures iuxtapositas unitates" by M. Suard, G. Berthier (Paris, France) and G. Del Re (Rome, Italy). [3] And finally, "De structura electronica et stereochimica ionis Cu(NO 2 ) 6 4- " by Derek W. Smith from the Department of Chemistry at The University, Sheffield, in the United Kingdom. [4] Three articles. A fleeting glimpse of a bygone era, preserved in the sterile confines of academic publishing. It’s almost… poetic. In a deeply unsettling way.