20th anniversary of the journal “Chemical Problems”

On September 19, 2022, the 20th anniversary of the journal “Chemical Problems” registration with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan turns. On this occasion, the journal’s co-founders, editor-in-chief, and editorial board sincerely congratulate the scientific community, the journal’s readers, and authors.

“Chemical Problems” was founded in 2002 by Dr. of Chemical Science Professor Akif Shikhan Aliyev, and has been published in Azerbaijan since 2003. Since 2004, it has been among the co-founders of the small enterprise “Turan”, since 2008 the Institute of Chemical Problems (now the Institute of Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry) and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry named after R. Agladze (Georgia, honorary).

The journal publishes the results of research in various fields of chemical science: petrochemicals and oil refining, electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, chemical kinetics and catalysis, crystallography, nanochemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, research of alternative energy sources, environmental chemistry, materials science, etc. The journal was included in the list of scientific publications recommended for publishing the main results of dissertations by the decision of the Supreme Attestation Commission’s review board dated 09.07.2004 (protocol No. 13 – Р).

The Journal of Chemical Problems is registered in the International Registration Center of Periodical publishes and, receiving the ISSN index 2221-8688 (print) and 2522-1655 (online), is placed in many authoritative bibliographic, reference databases, repositories, and search systems: Chemical Abstract (CAS) from 2009 (https://cassi.cas.org/publication.jsp?P=LglBQf5Q2NQyz133K_ll3zLPXfcr-WXfEFidNlCgmYo3O7R7eJ0GCDLPXfcr-WXfimSBIkq8XcUjhmk0WtYxmzLPXfcr-WXf0Kh6Q00df1qabuXqxUkSMg), e.Library.ru from 2015 (https://www.elibrary.ru/contents.asp?id=34537402), CYBERLENINKA from 2015 (https://cyberleninka .ru/journal/n/kimya-problemleri?i=1106244), ULRICHSWEB  from 2016, EBSCO, CrossRef. from 2017,  Scopus from 2021 (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101065070).

The official website of the journal www.chemprob.org is active. The journal was included in the Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) database (under the name Chemical Problems) in 2016-2019.

The journal publishes 4 issues a year, and the editorial board includes leading Azerbaijani scientists working in various fields of chemistry: academician V.M. Farzaliyev – chief editor, academician A.M. Aliyev – deputy editor-in-chief, academician D.B. Taghiyev, academician V.M. Abbasov, academician A.A. Majidov, academician T.M. Naghiyev, academician A.M. Maharramov, correspondent member of ANAS M.B. Babanlı, professor A.Ş. Aliyev, correspondent member of ANAS B.A. Mammadov, correspondent member of ANAS Y.N. Litvishkov, academician A.A. Garibov, correspondent member of ANAS I.I. Mustafayev, professor Y.A. Yusibov, professor E.H. Ismayilov, professor N.A. Zeynalov, professor A.Z. Zalov.

The editorial board includes well-known foreign scientists in their fields: President of the International Hydrogen Energy Association, prof. N. Vaziroglu (USA), prof. of Istanbul Technical University, department head of the Russian Scientific Center “Kurchatov Institute”, prof. V. N. Fateyev (Russia), director of the Institute of Inorganic and Electrochemistry named after R. Agladze, G. Tatishvili, prof. of the same institute T. A. Marsagishvili , prof. A.R. Farouk (Egypt), prof. Tayfur Ozturk (Turkey), prof. G.Ya. Kolbasov and S.A. Solovyov (Ukraine), prof. M.P. Yunusov (Uzbekistan), prof. E. Slavcheva (Bulgaria), prof. T.N. Vorobyeva (Belarus), prof. V. Miskovic-Stankovic (Serbia), prof. B.A. Trofimov (Russia, Irkutsk), prof. P. Taslimi (Turkey), prof. K. Bouzek (Czech Republic).

In order to acquire more readers and disseminate the results of research by Azerbaijani scientists published in the journal “Chemical Problems” abroad, the editorial board of the journal constantly worked in this direction, and as a result of its activities, the journal was included in the prestigious indexing bases. In 2017, it was registered with the Crossref Digital Identification System and received a DOI: 10.32737/2221-8688.

Since 2015, “Chemical Problems” journal has been included in RSCI Russian indexing databases. It should be noted that RSCI was created based on the agreement between the eLibrary and Clarivate Analytics databases on the Web of Science platform. Currently, two authoritative international scientometric databases have been accepted by the world scientific community – Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) and Scopus. In 2016-2019, the journal Chemical Problems was included in the Web of Science database (ESCI). 211 scientific articles published in the journal have been placed on the website of the Web of Science database, and 158 citations have been given to them to date.

From September 2021, the “Chemical Problems” journal has been included in Scopus international indexing database. This database includes 62 articles published in the journal.
Articles in “Chemical Problems” journal were published in three languages – Azerbaijani, Russian and English. In the last three years, the number of articles published in English in the journal has increased to 40%. From 2021 in the journal, all scientific articles publish in English. The journal publishes articles by scientists from foreign countries – Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Hungary, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Germany, Taiwan, South Africa, etc., as well as the results of joint research by Azerbaijani scientists and their foreign colleagues. 

On September 19, 2022, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the registration of the journal “Chemical Problems” with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the founder of the journal, Dr. of Chemical Sciences, Professor Akif Shikhan Aliyev, congratulates the editor-in-chief and all members of the editorial board, I wish you good health and success in the further development of the journal.