Journal of Cheminformatics

{{Infobox journal

| title = Journal of Cheminformatics

| cover = File:Cover of Journal of Cheminformatics.jpg

| former_name =

| abbreviation = J. Cheminform.

| discipline = Cheminformatics

| language =

| editor = Rajarshi Guha, Barbara Zdrazil

| publisher = BioMed Central

| country =

| history = 2009–present

| frequency = Upon acceptance

| openaccess = Yes

| license = Creative Commons Attribution

| impact = 7.1

| impact-year = 2023

| ISSN =

| eISSN = 1758-2946

| CODEN = JCOHB3

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| LCCN =

| OCLC = 320093938

| website = http://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/

| link1 = http://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles

| link1-name = Online access

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The Journal of Cheminformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers cheminformatics and molecular modelling.{{cite web|title=Aims and Scope|url=http://jcheminf.springeropen.com/about|website=Journal of Cheminformatics|accessdate=14 October 2016}} It was established in 2009 with David Wild (Indiana University) and Christoph Steinbeck (then at EMBL-EBI) as founding editors-in-chief, and was originally published by Chemistry Central.{{cite web |last1=Steinbeck |first1=Christoph |title=Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live! |url=http://www.steinbeck-molecular.de/steinblog/index.php/2009/03/17/open-access-journal-of-cheminformatics-now-live/ |website=SteinBlog |accessdate=18 October 2016}} At the end of 2015, the Chemistry Central brand was retired and its titles, including Journal of Cheminformatics, were merged with the SpringerOpen portfolio of open access journals.{{cite web |url=http://www.springeropen.com/ccbrandchange |title=Chemistry Central journals to transfer to SpringerOpen |publisher=Springer_Science+Business_Media |date= |accessdate=8 September 2016}}

{{As of|2016}}, the editors-in-chief are Rajarshi Guha (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) and Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University).{{cite web |url=http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2016/09/08/new-editors-chief-journal-cheminformatics/ |title=New Editors-in-Chief for Journal of Cheminformatics |date=8 September 2016 |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |website=SpringerOpen blog |accessdate=8 September 2016}} The journal has issued a few special issues ("article collections") in 2011 and 2012, covering topics like PubChem3D, the Resource Description Framework,{{Cite Q|Q28660809}} and the International Chemical Identifier.

In June 2021 Willighagen announced his intention to step down at the end of the year, explaining in an open letter that the publisher Springer Nature was not sufficiently FAIR and open.{{citation |last1=Willighagen |first1=Egon |title=Conflict of Interest. Or why I am stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics. |date=11 June 2021 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.4926030 }} Barbara Zdrazil started as editor in chief in 2022.{{cite tweet|title=We are delighted to announce that, starting 1 January 2022, our new co-Editor-in-Chief will be @BZdrazil. |user=jcheminf|number=1468192350367358981 |access-date=3 January 2022 | archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20211207121600/https://twitter.com/jcheminf/status/1468192350367358981 |archive-date=2021-12-07 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}{{cite q|Q111736243|doi-access=free}}