jacs-au
GitHub用于判断化学手稿是否适合投稿至JACS Au的辅助工具。涵盖期刊定位、选题范围、方法证据标准及拒稿启发式规则，帮助作者评估稿件质量与开放获取需求，优化投稿策略。
Trigger Scenarios
作者目标期刊为JACS Au
在JACS Au、JACS和ACS Central Science间选择
需要符合JACS Au广泛且高标准的化学成果
需确认稿件是否符合开放获取及质量要求
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-au -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jacs-au",
"description": "Use when targeting JACS Au or deciding whether a chemistry manuscript fits this gold open-access, broad, high-quality sister journal of JACS. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
JACS Au (jacs-au)
Journal positioning
JACS Au is published by the American Chemical Society as the gold open-access companion to the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). Its defining character is that it applies a JACS-level quality bar across the full breadth of chemistry while making every article freely available. A paper belongs in JACS Au when it reports an important, rigorous, broadly interesting chemical advance and the authors want — or are required to publish — fully open access. The journal is not a lower-tier outlet for JACS rejects; it is positioned as an equally selective, high-quality venue that spans organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, materials, biological, and computational chemistry. Readership is the whole ACS chemistry community. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the JACS Au / ACS Publications site.
When to trigger
- The author names JACS Au as the target venue for a broad, high-quality chemistry advance that they intend to publish gold open access.
- A manuscript would be competitive at JACS but the authors need or prefer open access (funder mandate, visibility, reuse), and they are choosing between JACS Au, JACS, and ACS Central Science.
- A strong, rigorous chemical result spans subfields and needs a broad, selective, open venue rather than a specialized journal.
- The author needs JACS Au's quality bar, breadth, open-access expectations, and desk-reject criteria before submission.
Scope & topic fit
- Organic and organometallic chemistry: methodology, synthesis, catalysis, mechanism, and physical-organic studies of broad significance.
- Inorganic and materials chemistry: new compounds, frameworks, functional materials, and structure–property relationships with rigorous characterization.
- Physical, theoretical, and computational chemistry: spectroscopy, dynamics, electrochemistry, and modeling that advances chemical understanding.
- Analytical and measurement science: new methods, sensors, and analytical strategies with demonstrated impact and validation.
- Biological and bioorganic chemistry: chemical biology, biomolecular mechanism, and chemistry at the biology interface.
- Energy, catalysis, and sustainability chemistry where the chemical advance is rigorous and broadly interesting.
Method & evidence bar
- The advance must be important and statable in one or two sentences; JACS Au applies the same significance and rigor expectations as JACS, so incremental or narrowly specialized work is misfit.
- Claims must be supported by complete, rigorous evidence — full characterization (spectroscopic, analytical, structural) of all new compounds and materials, with spectra and data in Supporting Information.
- Quantitative results (yields, selectivities, rates, errors) must be reported with appropriate replication and statistical treatment; scope and limitations stated honestly.
- Mechanistic, control, and comparison experiments must support central claims and establish the advance over existing work.
- Computational studies must use appropriate methods with stated assumptions, validation, and benchmarking; combined experiment–theory work should integrate the two.
- Data, code, and crystallographic information must be deposited per ACS policy; the open-access model does not relax evidence or reproducibility standards.
Structure & house style
- JACS Au uses the ACS article format with current length, figure, and reference expectations; re-check limits and article types on the live site.
- The opening must state the problem and the advance clearly; the writing is dense and expert-facing across a broad chemical readership.
- Main-text figures and schemes carry the key results, structures, and mechanisms; full experimental detail and characterization go in Supporting Information.
- A complete Supporting Information file with experimental procedures, characterization data, and spectra is required; structures and conditions must be unambiguous.
- As a gold open-access journal, an article publishing charge (APC) applies and a CC license is selected at acceptance; confirm current terms and any waivers.
- The abstract and graphical abstract must convey the chemical advance and its significance succinctly.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "JACS Au author guidelines" / "ACS Publications" and follow the current ACS version.
- Re-check current length, figure, and reference expectations, article types, and Supporting Information requirements.
- Re-check open-access terms — APC, CC license options, and any institutional or funder agreements or waivers.
- Re-check data-availability, crystallographic deposition (CCDC), code-availability, competing-interests, funding, and AI-use disclosure; confirm preprint policy (ChemRxiv posting is generally compatible).
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence — the chemical advance and why it is important across subfields, at a JACS-level bar.
- All new compounds/materials are fully characterized with spectra and data in Supporting Information.
- Quantitative results are reported with replication, error, and honest scope/limitation statements.
- Mechanistic, control, or benchmarking evidence establishes the advance over prior work.
- Open-access terms (APC, CC license, waivers) are understood and acceptable.
- Crystallographic and other structured data are deposited and accession details are ready.
Common desk-reject triggers
- An incremental or narrowly specialized result that does not meet the JACS-level significance bar.
- Incomplete characterization or missing spectra/data for new compounds or materials.
- A study whose claims outrun the evidence — insufficient replication, controls, or mechanistic support.
- A manuscript better suited to a specialized subfield journal with no broad chemical interest.
- Treating JACS Au as a fallback for a flawed manuscript rather than addressing the underlying rigor.
Re-routing decision
- A top-tier chemical advance the authors do not need to publish open access:
journal-of-the-american-chemical-society. - A broad, high-impact result of central importance reaching beyond core chemistry:
acs-central-science. - A specialized advance of strong interest within one subfield: a dedicated ACS subfield journal (e.g., organic, inorganic, or materials).
- A synthesis-methodology-centered advance: a synthesis-focused venue such as Nature Synthesis.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] JACS Au
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the work meet a JACS-level significance and rigor bar with complete characterization, and is gold open access intended?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <length/figure/reference limits / open-access APC & CC license / characterization SI / CCDC & data deposition / disclosure / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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