Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2002
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 90 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 0.93. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Chemistry (6)
90 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2002. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 8.55Q1 | 13.02 2.12 up from 2001 | 304 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
2Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.21Q1 | 5.20 0.04 down from 2001 | 6,814 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
3Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.19Q1 | 4.07 0.56 down from 2001 | 3,688 | 11% | $5,510 | ||
4OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.98 0.19 up from 2001 | 2,549 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
5Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.54 0.11 up from 2001 | 3,729 | 5% | — | ||
6Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.79Q1 | 2.61 0.04 up from 2001 | 2,857 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
7The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.61 0.02 down from 2001 | 4,435 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
8Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 2.28 0.06 down from 2001 | 2,068 | 8% | $4,640 | ||
9Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.51 0.60 up from 2001 | 290 | 2% | — | ||
10Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.60Q1 | 1.98 0.43 up from 2001 | 169 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Organometallic ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 1.70 0.12 up from 2001 | 2,396 | 3% | $3,970 | ||
12Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton TransactionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 2.06 0.47 up from 2001 | 1,951 | 5% | — | ||
13Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 1.57 0.16 up from 2001 | 1,387 | 3% | — | ||
14TetrahedronElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 2.01 0.11 up from 2001 | 3,534 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
15Tetrahedron LettersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.00 0.07 up from 2001 | 7,056 | 2% | $3,610 | ||
16Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 1.19Q1 | 1.54 0.22 up from 2001 | 634 | 93% | $2,712 | ||
17Current Organic ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.06Q1 | 1.37 0.14 up from 2001 | 155 | 3% | — | ||
18SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 1.06Q1 | 1.36 0.09 up from 2001 | 966 | 5% | — | ||
19Colloid & Polymer ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.01Q1 | 0.94 0.07 up from 2001 | 518 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
20European Journal of Inorganic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.99Q1 | 1.47 0.41 up from 2001 | 1,419 | 5% | $4,050 | ||
21Tetrahedron AsymmetryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 1.67 0.31 down from 2001 | 1,606 | 3% | — | ||
22Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.96Q1 | 1.21 0.03 down from 2001 | 1,165 | 4% | — | ||
23Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.93Q1 | 1.55 0.09 up from 2001 | 889 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
24Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 0.92Q2 | 1.09no 2001 value | 223 | 12% | $4,650 | — | |
25Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.22no change | 1,723 | 4% | — | ||
26SynlettThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.90Q2 | 0.95 0.03 down from 2001 | 1,752 | 7% | — | ||
27Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 0.99 0.13 up from 2001 | 469 | 8% | $4,430 | ||
28Polymer Reaction EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.86Q2 | 0.83 0.12 up from 2001 | 57 | 71% | — | ||
29Macromolecular Chemistry and PhysicsWiley · Germany | 0.85Q2 | 0.83 0.03 down from 2001 | 1,587 | 4% | $4,220 | ||
30European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.84Q2 | 1.21 0.13 up from 2001 | 2,002 | 5% | $4,330 | ||
31Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 0.84Q2 | 1.17 0.09 down from 2001 | 1,025 | 2% | $2,040 | ||
32The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.11no 2001 value | 54 | 9% | $4,710 | — | |
33Theoretical Chemistry AccountsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.83Q2 | 1.14 0.02 up from 2001 | 411 | 0% | $3,590 | ||
34Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.27 0.36 up from 2001 | 2,163 | 6% | $3,200 | ||
35Chemistry LettersOxford University Press · Japan | 0.75Q2 | 0.95no change | 2,176 | 2% | $1,003 | ||
36Helvetica Chimica ActaWiley · Switzerland | 0.73Q2 | 1.20 0.01 down from 2001 | 853 | 8% | $4,030 | ||
37Journal of Physical Organic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.96 0.02 up from 2001 | 494 | 5% | $3,930 | ||
38Fullerene Science and TechnologyMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.68Q2 | 0.69 0.05 down from 2001 | 174 | — | — | ||
39International Journal of Chemical KineticsWiley · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.85 0.05 up from 2001 | 403 | 5% | $3,700 | ||
40Canadian Journal of ChemistryNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.64Q2 | 1.10 0.34 up from 2001 | 929 | 1% | — | ||
41Journal of Carbohydrate ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q2 | 0.87 0.10 down from 2001 | 250 | 0% | — | ||
42HeterocyclesOAElsevier BV · Japan | 0.62Q2 | 0.98 0.14 up from 2001 | 1,146 | 100% | — | ||
43European Journal of Lipid Science and TechnologyWiley · Germany | 0.61Q2 | 0.92 0.43 up from 2001 | 260 | 2% | $4,020 | ||
44Journal of Heterocyclic ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.58Q2 | 0.85 0.17 down from 2001 | 709 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
45Journal of Surfactants and DetergentsWiley · United States | 0.58Q2 | 0.83 0.15 down from 2001 | 141 | 2% | $3,489 | ||
46Structural ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.60 0.16 down from 2001 | 148 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
47Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical CommunicationsWiley-VCH · Czechia | 0.56Q3 | 0.86 0.02 up from 2001 | 448 | 0% | $3,660 | ||
48Synthetic CommunicationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q3 | 0.78 0.03 down from 2001 | 1,629 | 2% | — | ||
49Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.55Q3 | 0.86 0.06 down from 2001 | 360 | 1% | $4,090 | ||
50Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 0.96 0.17 up from 2001 | 1,704 | 2% | $3,360 |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry90
- Spectroscopy23
- Analytical Chemistry17
- Inorganic Chemistry15
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry4
- Electrochemistry0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Organic Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 97,741 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.57 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 85 | 84 | 90 | 90 | 94 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 104 | 106 | 107 | 112 | 118 | 131 | 136 | 140 | 140 | 145 | 146 | 152 | 150 | 151 | 146 | 147 | 144 | 142 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 94,510 | 96,359 | 97,741 | 99,911 | 102,223 | 105,643 | 109,337 | 113,552 | 117,231 | 119,740 | 122,387 | 125,371 | 129,784 | 132,620 | 137,393 | 139,961 | 142,323 | 138,875 | 127,841 | 117,699 | 110,036 | 110,502 | 110,400 | 108,772 | 107,132 | 108,375 | |
| Median OJR | 0.612 | 0.610 | 0.57 | 0.59 | 0.53 | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.60 | 0.67 | 0.614 | 0.6331 | 0.6327 | 0.66 | 0.58 | 0.554 | 0.550 | 0.504 | 0.487 | 0.492 | 0.42 | 0.43 | 0.48 | 0.496 | 0.52 | 0.513 | 0.509 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.