ACS Central Science

{{short description|Monthly open access journal}}

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| title = ACS Central Science

| cover = ACS_Central_Science_Cover.jpg

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| abbreviation = ACS Cent. Sci.

| discipline = Multidisciplinary

| language = English

| editor = Carolyn R. Bertozzi

| publisher = ACS Publications

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| history = 2015–present

| frequency = Monthly

| openaccess = yes

| license =

| impact = 12.7

| impact-year = 2023

| ISSN = 2374-7943

| eISSN = 2374-7951

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| OCLC = 890595211

| website = https://pubs.acs.org/journal/acscii

| link1 = https://pubs.acs.org/toc/acscii/current

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://pubs.acs.org/loi/acscii

| link2-name = Online archive

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ACS Central Science is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering chemistry and related fields. Its title refers to the phrase "central science", which has long been used to describe the role played by chemistry in connecting the physical and life sciences.

Established in 2015, it is the first fully open-access journal published by ACS Publications, the American Chemical Society's publishing arm. The editor-in-chief is Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University).{{Cite web |url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/acscii/about.html |title=ACS Central Science: About |website=American Chemical Society |language=en |access-date=2019-09-23}}

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 12.7.{{cite book |year=2024 |chapter=ACS Central Science |title=2023 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |edition=Science |series=Web of Science}}