Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Spectroscopy journal rankings 2003
23 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Spectroscopy has 23 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.28 on 2002 to 1.26, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.82. The top three are Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, and Mass Spectrometry Reviews.
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)
23 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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1Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 4.12Q1 | 4.40 1.31 up from 2002 | 51 | 10% | — | ||
2Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.85Q1 | 5.39 0.77 up from 2002 | 48 | 0% | $4,170 | ||
3Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 5.36 1.36 up from 2002 | 84 | 3% | $5,230 | ||
4Journal of High Resolution ChromatographyWiley · Germany | 2.20Q1 | —no 2002 value | 150 | — | — | ||
5Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.12Q1 | 4.21no 2002 value | 105 | 13% | $4,500 | — | |
6Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 3.20 0.09 up from 2002 | 3,417 | 4% | $4,040 | ||
7Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.72Q2 | 2.92 0.06 down from 2002 | 494 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
8International Journal of Mass SpectrometryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.34no change | 866 | 2% | $4,110 | ||
9Journal of Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 2.60 0.52 up from 2002 | 552 | 7% | $4,430 | ||
10Rapid Communications in Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 2.67 0.73 up from 2002 | 1,265 | 10% | $4,840 | ||
11Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 2.25 0.40 up from 2002 | 1,101 | 0% | — | ||
12Journal of Separation ScienceWiley · Germany | 1.26Q2 | 1.75 0.73 up from 2002 | 393 | 5% | $4,030 | ||
13Journal of Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q3 | 1.96 0.26 down from 2002 | 607 | 10% | $3,500 | ||
14ChiralityWiley · United States | 0.82Q3 | 1.62 0.48 up from 2002 | 442 | 8% | $4,030 | ||
15Solid State Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 0.79Q3 | 1.40 0.06 down from 2002 | 128 | 1% | $3,750 | ||
16ChromatographiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.75Q3 | 1.13 0.04 down from 2002 | 992 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
17European Journal of Mass SpectrometrySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.20 0.17 down from 2002 | 173 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
18Journal of Molecular SpectroscopyElsevier BV · United States | 0.60Q3 | 1.40 0.11 up from 2002 | 690 | 2% | $3,310 | ||
19Supramolecular chemistryTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.57Q4 | 1.05 0.17 up from 2002 | 193 | 4% | — | ||
20Magnetic Resonance in ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.50Q4 | 1.28 0.39 up from 2002 | 592 | 9% | $4,440 | ||
21Journal of Supramolecular ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.50 0.32 up from 2002 | 115 | — | — | ||
22Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of JapanOAMass Spectrometry Society of Japan · Japan | 0.29Q4 | 0.79 0.10 up from 2002 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
23Chinese Journal of ChromatographyScience Press · China | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 50 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Spectroscopy 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.
6 additional Spectroscopy 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
- 23
- Window papers (baseline)
- 28,218 +2.6% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 1.26 +26.9% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 21 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 33 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 27,502 | 27,640 | 27,844 | 28,218 | 29,022 | 30,634 | 32,381 | 33,844 | 34,498 | 35,393 | 35,538 | 36,336 | 36,857 | 37,796 | 38,660 | 38,766 | 38,249 | 36,535 | 34,913 | 33,446 | 33,070 | 32,834 | 32,536 | 31,474 | 30,689 | 31,427 | |
| Median OJR | 0.996 | 0.983 | 0.988 | 1.26 | 1.086 | 0.96 | 1.21 | 1.15 | 1.25 | 1.08 | 0.995 | 1.01 | 1.093 | 0.979 | 0.984 | 0.83 | 0.79 | 0.77 | 0.69 | 0.67 | 0.60 | 0.56 | 0.53 | 0.565 | 0.54 | 0.570 |
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.