JCIM 创刊于1961年，是美国化学会旗下专注于化学信息学和计算模拟研究的国际权威学术期刊，受到领域内专家学者的高度认可。在过去60余年中，JCIM 见证了包括化学、生物学和计算机科学交叉的新兴学科领域的诞生和发展，发表了众多在药物设计和化学信息学领域具有重要影响力的科学研究工作。

The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling publishes papers reporting new methodology and/or important applications in the fields of chemical informatics and molecular modeling. Specific topics include the representation and computer-based searching of chemical databases, molecular modeling, computer-aided molecular design of new materials, catalysts, or ligands, development of new computational methods or efficient algorithms for chemical software, and biopharmaceutical chemistry including analyses of biological activity and other issues related to drug discovery.

Astute chemists, computer scientists, and information specialists look to this monthly’s insightful research studies, programming innovations, and software reviews to keep current with advances in this integral, multidisciplinary field.