Chemija

About Chemija

Chemija — Journal Profile

Chemija (the Lithuanian word for "Chemistry") is the chemistry journal of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, published in Vilnius by the Academy's publishing house, Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla. It publishes original research articles and reviews from all branches of modern chemistry — physical, inorganic, analytical, organic and polymer chemistry, electrochemistry and multidisciplinary work — in English, four times a year. Its ISSNs are 0235-7216 (print) and 2424-4538 (electronic), and its own publisher page records that it has been covered by Clarivate's Web of Science since 2007, with a 2024 Journal Impact Factor of 0.4 and a five-year impact factor of 0.6.

This profile gathers, in one place, the journal's identity and publishing history, its official scope as the publisher states it, the author instructions it actually issues (article structure, abstract and keyword rules, language expectations), its metric record from Web of Science, SCImago-derived summaries and OpenAlex — each figure attributed to its source — its indexing position, and guidance for the authors, largely in Baltic and Central-European chemistry, for whom this long-running academy journal is a natural home.

At a Glance

History and Identity

Chemija is an academy journal in the classical Central- and Eastern-European mould: a national academy of sciences lends its name, its publishing house runs production, and the journal serves as a refereed record of the country's chemistry and a bridge to the international literature. The volume arithmetic tells its story plainly — Volume 34 appeared in 2023, Volume 36 in 2025 and Volume 37 in 2026, a sequence consistent with the 1990 start that journal databases record — so the journal has been publishing continuously for more than three and a half decades, through Lithuania's post-1990 scientific re-integration with the West. Its publisher's address is the Academy's seat at Gedimino Avenue 3 in Vilnius, and its articles are produced in a stable, recognisable house format whose front matter carries both ISSNs (print 0235-7216, eISSN 2424-4538) on every issue.

Historically the journal is rooted in Lithuanian chemical institutes — the chemistry institutes of the Academy system, Vilnius University and Kaunas University of Technology recur throughout its author and editorial networks — while its pages are open to, and used by, authors from the wider region. The 2025 volume, for example, carried a substantial jubilee article in Lithuanian honouring a leading Lithuanian electrochemist alongside the journal's normal English research content, a small but telling sign that Chemija doubles as a chronicle of its national scientific community as well as an international outlet. Its Web of Science coverage since 2007, stated by the publisher, marks the modern era of the journal: from that point its articles have been visible in the citation indexes that drive academic evaluation across the region.

Scope and Subject Coverage

The publisher's official description is short and complete: Chemija publishes original research articles and reviews from all branches of modern chemistry, including physical, inorganic, analytical, organic, polymer chemistry, electrochemistry, and multidisciplinary approaches. OpenAlex's topic analysis of the published record shows what that breadth means in practice; its most frequent topics for the journal are:

• Electrocatalysts for energy conversion;
• Analytical chemistry and chromatography;
• Electrochemical analysis and applications;
• Electrochemical sensors and biosensors;
• Corrosion behaviour and inhibition.

That topic fingerprint matches the strengths of the Lithuanian chemistry community — electrochemistry, analytical methods, materials and surface science are long-standing national specialisms — while the archive also carries synthetic and materials work with clear applied pull: cement and ceramics chemistry (a visible strand in recent volumes, including work on production-waste substitution in cement), hydrogels and nanoparticles, catalysts, and bioactive-compound studies. SCImago classifies the journal in the single broad category Chemistry (miscellaneous), which is exactly what a general academy chemistry journal should expect: it competes not with the specialist flagships of any one subfield but with other national and regional general-chemistry titles.

Author Instructions — What the Journal Actually Asks

Chemija's published instructions to authors (issued by the Academy publisher and reprinted in its issues) set out concrete, checkable requirements:

• The journal publishes original papers and review articles in the field of chemistry; papers offered must not have been published elsewhere.
• Papers should be submitted in English.
• Each paper opens with a concise but informative title, the authors' names, and the name and address of the institution where the work was done.
• The main text is divided into Introduction, Experimental, Results and Discussion, and Conclusions.
• The paper carries a list of references; an abstract of not more than 200 words and two to five keywords appear at the beginning of each article; Lithuanian authors additionally provide a summary in Lithuanian.
• Tables are numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and the instructions give detailed rules for citing journal articles, collected works and books in the reference list.

These rules describe a traditional, print-disciplined journal: short abstracts, few keywords, a fixed IMRaD-style skeleton for experimental work. Authors used to looser online-only formats should note the 200-word abstract ceiling and the insistence on the four-part structure — manuscripts that arrive in a different architecture invite avoidable editorial friction. Submission is handled through the publisher's journal site on the Open Journal Systems platform (lmaleidykla.lt/ojs/index.php/chemija), which is also where the current issue, back archive and editorial information live; the journal uses OJS 3, the standard Public Knowledge Project system, per the publisher's site notices.

Metrics — by Source

Three corpora, three pictures — and one consistent story. Chemija is a small-circulation, general-chemistry academy journal whose citation indicators sit in the fourth quartile of the Chemistry (miscellaneous) category in SCImago-derived rankings (best quartile Q4), with a modest but real citation base: an h-index in the mid-teens on Scopus-derived counting and a four-figure total citation count in OpenAlex. The publisher's own citation of a Web of Science impact factor (0.4 for 2024, 0.6 over five years) is the figure most likely to matter in formal Lithuanian and regional evaluations, and it is notable that the five-year figure exceeds the two-year one — a signature of slow-burning citation in fields like materials, corrosion and analytical method work, where papers accumulate references over long useful lives. Authors should present evaluators with the metric their institution actually uses, attributed to its source, rather than shopping across these rows for the largest number.

Indexing and Directory Position

The publisher states that the journal is covered by Clarivate Web of Science since 2007 — its single most valuable indexing credential — and SCImago/Scopus-derived services carry it in Chemistry (miscellaneous), giving it a Scopus-corpus presence for the standard bibliometric tools. OpenAlex resolves both of its ISSNs to one source record (S1036480844) and treats its content as openly reachable, which matches the practical reality that articles are posted in full on the publisher's OJS site. One directory point must be recorded honestly: a foreground search of the DOAJ API for ISSN 0235-7216 returned no listing at checking time, so this profile does not describe Chemija as a DOAJ journal; authors whose funders require DOAJ listing should verify the current position themselves at submission time. The journal is likewise best described as traditionally published with online full texts on the academy site, rather than by a licence slogan that its pages do not state.

Fees and Access — What Could Be Verified

No verified statement of submission or publication charges for Chemija could be confirmed from the public sources fetched for this profile, and no article-level licence statement is asserted by the publisher's About page; both matters are therefore recorded as could not be verified rather than guessed. The full texts of articles are readable on the publisher's site — the Academy posts issue PDFs and article files openly — but readable is not the same as a stated reuse licence, and authors planning republication or translation should confirm terms with the publishing house. As with any journal whose fee policy is not printed in a citable place, authors should obtain any charge information in writing from the editorial office before submitting, and should not pay any amount that is not documented in the journal's own instructions or correspondence.

Who Should Publish Here — and Who Should Not

Chemija fits: chemists in Lithuania, the Baltic states and the wider region who want a refereed, Web of Science-covered, English-language outlet that welcomes sound work across all of chemistry; institute-based researchers reporting complete experimental studies — electrochemistry, analytical methods, materials, corrosion, synthesis — in the journal's traditional format; and review authors synthesising a niche in which the regional community is strong. It is a weaker fit for: work aimed at the high-impact specialist flagships of a subfield; manuscripts whose authors need DOAJ-listed status or a stated open licence for funder compliance; and papers that cannot be shaped to the journal's structure, abstract length and English-language requirements. Its quarterly rhythm — four issues a year — also means a slower production cadence than monthly online titles; authors should plan submission timing around that cycle.

Practical submission advice follows from all of this: write the manuscript in the journal's house shape from the first draft — four named sections, a tight abstract, a short keyword list — rather than reformatting at the end; keep the experimental section complete enough for a competent laboratory to repeat the work, since this readership still treats reproducibility as the point of a chemistry paper; and cite the journal's own recent volumes where they genuinely bear on the work, because editors and referees of a community journal notice whether an author knows the conversation they are asking to join.

Similar and Alternative Journals

The natural comparison set for Chemija is the family of national-academy and regional general-chemistry journals: Acta Chimica Slovenica (Slovenian Chemical Society), closer neighbours include Chemical Papers (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Springer), the Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, Croatica Chemica Acta, the Polish Journal of Chemical Technology and other Baltic and Central-European chemistry titles carried in the same SCImago category, up to broader multidisciplinary venues such as Open Chemistry. Chemija's distinguishing assets within this set are its unbroken academy lineage since 1990, its Web of Science coverage held since 2007, and an electrochemistry-and-analytics flavour that reflects its home institutes.

What the Recent Volumes Show

A journal's present character is best read from its newest issues, and Chemija's recent volumes have a clear flavour. Electrochemistry and materials work run through them: studies of cement chemistry and the valorisation of industrial residues in cement production — including research on replacing a substantial share of ordinary Portland cement mass with production waste while cutting carbon emissions — sit alongside clay and ceramics science, surface and interface studies, and thermodynamic analyses of construction materials, much of it from Kaunas University of Technology's materials community. Analytical and environmental strands persist as well, continuing the chromatography and trace-analysis tradition that has marked Lithuanian chemistry since the journal's early volumes. The mix is neither random nor merely local: it mirrors where Lithuanian chemistry actually publishes — building materials and silicate science, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry — and it gives the journal a defensible identity as the record of a national research system with genuine international readership in those niches.

The community function deserves emphasis because metric dashboards cannot see it. When the journal marks the seventieth birthday of a figure such as Valdemaras Razumas — Vilnius University chemist, enzyme-electrochemistry pioneer, academician — with a full biographical article, it is doing the work that holds a scientific community together across generations: recording who built the institutes, which schools of method they founded, and how Lithuanian chemistry connected to laboratories in Linköping, Lund and Tübingen. Foreign readers may skip those pages, but they are part of why an academy keeps a journal like this alive through funding cycles that would long ago have closed a purely commercial title with the same citation numbers.

Reading the Journal's Numbers in Context

Evaluators meeting Chemija for the first time sometimes make two opposite mistakes. The first is to dismiss it for a 0.4 impact factor without noticing the five-year figure of 0.6, the unbroken Web of Science coverage since 2007, and the fact that general national journals are structurally capped in two-year citation windows: their papers are useful to practitioners and regional researchers who cite slowly and in local languages as well as in English. The second mistake is to oversell it — to present a Q4 academy title as though it carried the signalling weight of a subfield flagship. The honest reading, and the one this profile gives authors, is that Chemija offers verified, indexed, citable publication in a stable journal that the Lithuanian system itself recognises, with production quality and archival permanence guaranteed by an academy publisher rather than by a commercial platform's roadmap. For a doctoral candidate in Vilnius or Kaunas defending a dissertation that requires Web of Science-covered articles, that is not a consolation prize; it is precisely the credential the system asks for, delivered by the system's own journal.

There is also a longevity argument. A title that has appeared without interruption since 1990, that survived the funding collapses of the transition decade and the platform migrations of the online era, and that still fills four issues a year in its thirty-seventh volume, has demonstrated the single hardest property for a small journal to fake: staying power. Authors choosing between a fashionable new online title and an academy quarterly should weigh that record, because a citation is only worth having if the journal that carries it is still there, indexed and resolvable, in twenty years.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the journal's ISSNs? Print 0235-7216 and electronic 2424-4538. Profiles that list only the first are incomplete — the eISSN appears on the journal's own issue front matter and in OpenAlex's record.

Who publishes Chemija? Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla, the publishing house of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius.

Since when has it been published? Since 1990; its volume numbering reaches Volume 37 in 2026.

How often does it appear? Quarterly — four issues per year.

What does it publish? Original research articles and reviews from all branches of modern chemistry, including physical, inorganic, analytical, organic and polymer chemistry, electrochemistry and multidisciplinary work (publisher's scope).

What is its impact factor? The publisher reports a 2024 Journal Impact Factor of 0.4 and a five-year figure of 0.6, with Web of Science coverage since 2007.

In what language are papers published? English; papers are submitted in English, with a Lithuanian summary required from Lithuanian authors.

What structure must a paper follow? Introduction, Experimental, Results and Discussion, Conclusions; abstract of at most 200 words; two to five keywords.

Is it listed in DOAJ? No listing was found in a foreground DOAJ API search for its ISSN at checking time.

Does it charge authors? No verified fee statement could be confirmed from fetched public sources; confirm in writing with the editorial office if this matters to you.

Sources and Verification

Compiled from the publisher's official journal pages on the Academy's OJS site (scope statement; Web of Science coverage since 2007; 2024 impact factor 0.4 and five-year 0.6 — fetched in the foreground); the journal's printed instructions to authors issued by the Academy publisher (article types, English-language submission, structure, abstract and keyword rules, Lithuanian summary rule); issue front matter carrying both ISSNs (print 0235-7216, eISSN 2424-4538) and volume numbering (Vol. 34 in 2023, Vol. 36 in 2025, Vol. 37 in 2026); the OpenAlex source record resolved through its ISSN endpoint (S1036480844: both ISSNs, works, citations, h-index, two-year mean citedness, topics, homepage); SCImago-derived journal summaries (category Chemistry (miscellaneous), Q4, h-index 16, SJR 0.155, CiteScore 1.0, SNIP 0.18); and a foreground DOAJ API search (no listing returned). Anything no fetched source could verify — fee levels, licence terms, named current editors — has been flagged as such in the text or left out, never invented.