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{{Infobox journal
| title = Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
| caption = 
| formernames = Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
| cover = jmc cover.jpg
| discipline = [[Medicinal chemistry]]
| abbreviation = J. Med. Chem.
| language = 
| editor = Craig W. Lindsley
| publisher = [[American Chemical Society]]
| country = United States
| frequency = Biweekly
| openaccess = 
| history = 1959-present
| license = 
| impact = 7.1
| impact-year = 2023
| website = http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jmcmar/index.html
| link1 = http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jmcmar/current
| link1-name = Online access
| link2 = http://pubs.acs.org/loi/jmcmar
| link2-name = Online archive
| ISSN = 0022-2623
| eISSN = 1520-4804
| CODEN = JMCMAR
| OCLC = 39480771
| JSTOR = 
| LCCN = a63000643
}}
The '''''Journal of Medicinal Chemistry''''' is a biweekly [[peer-reviewed]] [[medical journal]] covering research in [[medicinal chemistry]]. It is published by the [[American Chemical Society]]. It was established in 1959 as the ''Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry'' and obtained its current name in 1963.<ref name=editorial>{{cite journal |doi=10.1021/jm201370n |title=My Farewell to the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |year=2011 |last1=Portoghese |first1=Philip S. |journal=Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |volume=54 |issue=24 |pages=8235 |pmid=22070537}}</ref> [[Philip S. Portoghese]] served as [[editor-in-chief]] from 1972 to 2011.<ref name=editorial /> In 2012, [[Gunda Georg]] ([[University of Minnesota]]) and [[Shaomeng Wang]] ([[University of Michigan]]) succeeded Portoghese ([[University of Minnesota]]). In 2021, Craig W. Lindsley ([[Vanderbilt University]]) became editor-in-chief. According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', the journal has a 2023 [[impact factor]] of 7.1.<ref name=WoS>{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Chemistry, Medicinal |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=[[Clarivate]] |edition=Science |series=[[Web of Science]]}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jmcmar}}

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