Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2003
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 90 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 9.74Q1 | 12.35 0.68 down from 2002 | 334 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
2Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.50Q1 | 6.06 0.85 up from 2002 | 7,481 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
3Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.49Q1 | 5.59 1.52 up from 2002 | 3,782 | 12% | $5,510 | ||
4Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 3.11 0.56 up from 2002 | 4,061 | 4% | — | ||
5OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.30 0.32 up from 2002 | 2,584 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
6Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.05Q1 | 3.41 0.79 up from 2002 | 3,432 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
7Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 3.14 0.86 up from 2002 | 2,248 | 14% | $4,640 | ||
8Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton TransactionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.63 0.57 up from 2002 | 1,984 | — | — | ||
9The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.99 0.38 up from 2002 | 4,347 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
10Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.64 1.55 up from 2002 | 377 | 16% | $4,650 | ||
11Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.01 0.50 up from 2002 | 335 | 1% | — | ||
12Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.48Q1 | 2.07 0.09 up from 2002 | 160 | 100% | — | ||
13Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 1.56 0.01 up from 2002 | 575 | 95% | $2,712 | ||
14Current Organic ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.38Q1 | 2.20 0.83 up from 2002 | 203 | 4% | — | ||
15TetrahedronElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.38 0.37 up from 2002 | 3,551 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
16Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 2.04 0.47 up from 2002 | 1,361 | 3% | — | ||
17Journal of Organometallic ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.92 0.22 up from 2002 | 2,362 | 4% | $3,970 | ||
18Theoretical Chemistry AccountsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.18Q1 | 2.32 1.17 up from 2002 | 372 | 5% | $3,590 | ||
19Tetrahedron LettersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 2.15 0.15 up from 2002 | 6,971 | 2% | $3,610 | ||
20The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.15Q1 | 1.97 0.86 up from 2002 | 89 | 0% | $4,710 | ||
21European Journal of Inorganic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 1.83 0.36 up from 2002 | 1,416 | 7% | $4,050 | ||
22Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 1.59no 2002 value | 70 | 4% | — | — | |
23Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 1.39 0.16 up from 2002 | 1,544 | 0% | — | ||
24Tetrahedron AsymmetryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.81 0.14 up from 2002 | 1,598 | 4% | — | ||
25Colloid & Polymer ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 1.19 0.25 up from 2002 | 508 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
26SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.97Q2 | 1.17 0.19 down from 2002 | 1,381 | 10% | — | ||
27SynlettThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.95Q2 | 1.75 0.79 up from 2002 | 1,758 | 8% | — | ||
28Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.26 0.05 up from 2002 | 1,057 | — | — | ||
29Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.32 0.33 up from 2002 | 428 | 5% | $4,430 | ||
30Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.49 0.06 down from 2002 | 952 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
31Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.89Q2 | 1.57 0.30 up from 2002 | 1,898 | 7% | $3,200 | ||
32European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 1.43 0.22 up from 2002 | 1,915 | 8% | $4,330 | ||
33Macromolecular Chemistry and PhysicsWiley · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 1.14 0.31 up from 2002 | 1,417 | 5% | $4,220 | ||
34Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 0.85Q2 | 1.26 0.09 up from 2002 | 1,036 | 3% | $2,040 | ||
35Helvetica Chimica ActaWiley · Switzerland | 0.83Q2 | 1.66 0.46 up from 2002 | 914 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
36Chemistry LettersOxford University Press · Japan | 0.83Q2 | 1.14 0.19 up from 2002 | 2,173 | 2% | $1,003 | ||
37Polymer Reaction EngineeringMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.76Q2 | 0.96 0.13 up from 2002 | 43 | 6% | — | ||
38Australian Journal of ChemistryCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.76Q2 | 1.20 0.60 up from 2002 | 409 | 19% | — | ||
39International Journal of Chemical KineticsWiley · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.08 0.24 up from 2002 | 329 | 6% | $3,700 | ||
40Canadian Journal of ChemistryNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.73Q2 | 1.10 0.01 up from 2002 | 668 | 1% | — | ||
41Angewandte ChemieWiley · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 1.40 0.67 up from 2002 | 4,191 | 4% | $5,790 | ||
42Fullerene Science and TechnologyMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.71Q2 | 0.92 0.23 up from 2002 | 96 | — | — | ||
43Journal of Physical Organic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.98 0.02 up from 2002 | 442 | 7% | $3,930 | ||
44Synthetic CommunicationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q2 | 0.98 0.19 up from 2002 | 1,602 | 2% | — | ||
45Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.59Q2 | 0.79 0.08 down from 2002 | 405 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
46Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical MonthlySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.59Q3 | 0.95 0.34 up from 2002 | 460 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
47Structural ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.92 0.32 up from 2002 | 151 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
48Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical CommunicationsWiley-VCH · Czechia | 0.58Q3 | 1.07 0.21 up from 2002 | 425 | 3% | $3,660 | ||
49HeterocyclesOAElsevier BV · Japan | 0.58Q3 | 1.06 0.08 up from 2002 | 1,094 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.58Q3 | 0.98 0.02 up from 2002 | 1,642 | 4% | $3,360 |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry90
- Spectroscopy23
- Analytical Chemistry20
- Inorganic Chemistry16
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry4
- Electrochemistry0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% 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 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 99,911 +5.7% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.59 -3.1% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.