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chemical-reviews
Use when targeting Chemical Reviews (Chem Rev) or deciding whether a chemistry review manuscript fits this ACS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. NOTE: Chemical Reviews is a largely INVITED venue; unsolicited primary-data manuscripts will be desk-rejected.
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# Chemical Reviews (chemical-reviews)
## Journal positioning
Chemical Reviews, published by the American Chemical Society, is one of the most authoritative and widely cited venues for comprehensive review articles across all areas of chemistry. The journal publishes definitive, exhaustive treatments of mature or rapidly evolving research areas — not opinion pieces, not progress reports, and not primary research articles. Chemical Reviews is a **largely invited venue**: the majority of reviews are commissioned by the editors from leaders in a sub-field; unsolicited review proposals are accepted but must clear a higher bar of timeliness, comprehensiveness, and author authority. Submitting primary experimental data here is a categorical mismatch.
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 ACS submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author has received an invitation from Chemical Reviews editors, or is preparing an unsolicited review proposal.
- A comprehensive review of a chemistry sub-field needs evaluation against the Chem Rev standard (vs. `chemical-society-reviews` or `accounts-of-chemical-research`).
- A colleague asks whether a long, comprehensive manuscript is appropriate for Chemical Reviews.
- The author needs to understand why primary data or short reviews should be redirected.