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{{Infobox journal
| abbreviation  = J. Am. Chem. Soc.
| website	=	http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jacsat/index.html
| publisher	=	[[American Chemical Society]]
| history	=	1879 to present
| ISSN	=	0002-7863
| eISSN	=	1520-5126
| CODEN = JACSAT
}}
The '''''Journal of the American Chemical Society''''' (usually abbreviated as ''J. Am. Chem. Soc.'', or ''JACS''), is a [[peer-review]]ed [[scientific journal]], published since 1879 by the [[American Chemical Society]]<ref>[http://pubs.acs.org/loi/jacsat List of Issues back to 1879]</ref>. The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the ''Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry'' in July 1893, and the ''American Chemical Journal'' in January 1914 {{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}.  A weekly publication, it publishes original research papers in all fields of [[chemistry]]. According to [[Institute for Scientific Information]] statistics, ''JACS'' is the journal with the most citations in this field.<ref name=cites>Journal Citation Reports, 2008 </ref> {{Clarify|date=July 2009}} The [[impact factor]] of the journal is 7.885 (2007).<ref name=cites/> The current Editor of the journal is [[Peter J. Stang]] of the [[University of Utah]].<ref> [http://pubs.acs.org/page/jacsat/editors.html JACS Editos and Editorial Board]</ref> He has been the Editor since 2002 {{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}. 

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