Arkivoc stands for Archive for Organic Chemistry and is an online open access scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 of organic chemistry

Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...

. The non-profit organisation Arkat USA Inc was established in 2000 through a personal donation from Alan R. Katritzky

Alan R. Katritzky

Alan R. Katritzky is a British-American chemist, now working at the University of Florida.Katritzky studied at the University of Oxford and received his BA in 1959. After he got his Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, he became professor at the University of East Anglia in 1963...

and Linde Katritzky. Arkat's primary goal is to publish Arkivoc with a view to promoting the dissemination of the most recent discoveries and research results in the field of organic chemistry over worries of escalating subscription costs of established scientific journals. The impact factor of this journal is 1.096 (2010) and was ranked 34th in ranking of organic chemistry journals in 2010.