At the end of the journal's life, it was published by EDP Sciences, who was that the end of the journal was a "part of a general trend to replace national publications with international (European) ones to better compete with American publications." EDP Sciences expected the areas covered by JCP now be covered by into ChemPhysChem published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of the French and German Chemical Societies, and were looking to increase coverage of chemical physics in European Physical Journal D and European Physical Journal E.
