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Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation is a peer-reviewed journal published by American Chemical Society, covering Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Protein Structure and Dynamics. Over its lifetime it has published 11,910 papers, which have received 628,728 citations.

PublisherAmerican Chemical Society
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (ACS)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
(1) Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2023, 12, 45–58.

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Publishes research inAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies Protein Structure and Dynamics Machine Learning in Materials Science Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
ISSN1549-9618
Citation impact (2-yr)5.06
h-index279
i10-index7,992
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitepubs.acs.org
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Papers published in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation per year

564
2014
578
2015
645
2016
596
2017
633
2018
593
2019
642
2020
640
2021
629
2022
815
2023
909
2024
1.1K
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation by publication year

35.3K
2014
58.8K
2015
33.1K
2016
32.9K
2017
29.7K
2018
34.9K
2019
20.1K
2020
24.1K
2021
14K
2022
14.6K
2023
8.3K
2024
3.6K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

GROMACS 4:  Algorithms for Highly Efficient, Load-Balanced, and Scalable Molecular Simulation

Berk Hess, Carsten Kutzner, David van der Spoel et al. · 2 Feb 2008

Molecular simulation is an extremely useful, but computationally very expensive tool for studies of chemical and biomolecular systems. Here, we present a new implementation of our molecular simulation toolkit GROMACS which now both achieves extremely high performance on single processors from algorithmic optimizations and hand-coded routines and simultaneously scales very well on parallel machines. The…

16,076 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
ff14SB: Improving the Accuracy of Protein Side Chain and Backbone Parameters from ff99SB

James Maier, Carmenza Martinez, Koushik Kasavajhala et al. · 7 Jul 2015

Molecular mechanics is powerful for its speed in atomistic simulations, but an accurate force field is required. The Amber ff99SB force field improved protein secondary structure balance and dynamics from earlier force fields like ff99, but weaknesses in side chain rotamer and backbone secondary structure preferences have been identified. Here, we performed a complete refit…

11,208 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
PTRAJ and CPPTRAJ: Software for Processing and Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Trajectory Data

Daniel R. Roe, Thomas E. Cheatham · 10 Jun 2013

We describe PTRAJ and its successor CPPTRAJ, two complementary, portable, and freely available computer programs for the analysis and processing of time series of three-dimensional atomic positions (i.e., coordinate trajectories) and the data therein derived. Common tools include the ability to manipulate the data to convert among trajectory formats, process groups of trajectories generated with…

7,627 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Optimization of the Additive CHARMM All-Atom Protein Force Field Targeting Improved Sampling of the Backbone ϕ, ψ and Side-Chain χ<sub>1</sub> and χ<sub>2</sub> Dihedral Angles

Robert B. Best, Xiao Zhu, Jihyun Shim et al. · 18 Jul 2012

While the quality of the current CHARMM22/CMAP additive force field for proteins has been demonstrated in a large number of applications, limitations in the model with respect to the equilibrium between the sampling of helical and extended conformations in folding simulations have been noted. To overcome this, as well as make other improvements in the…

4,774 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
<i>MMPBSA.py</i>: An Efficient Program for End-State Free Energy Calculations

Bill R. Miller, T. Dwight McGee, Jason Swails et al. · 25 Jul 2012

MM-PBSA is a post-processing end-state method to calculate free energies of molecules in solution. MMPBSA.py is a program written in Python for streamlining end-state free energy calculations using ensembles derived from molecular dynamics (MD) or Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. Several implicit solvation models are available with MMPBSA.py, including the Poisson-Boltzmann Model, the Generalized Born Model,…

4,545 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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