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Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Spectroscopy journal rankings 2005

22 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry

Spectroscopy has 22 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2004 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.48. The top three are Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, and Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

22
14% of Chemistry
Median OJR

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.

0.96-0.13 vs 2004
This subfieldAll 0.79World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

5%
All fields: 15%
Median listed APC

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.

$4,130
Median positive listed APC: $4,130 among 16 journals. 6 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Chemistry (6)

22 ranked journals

Filters

Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Spectroscopy ranking, 2005

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.

OJR

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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005.

Compare
1Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States
3.60Q17.90 0.21 up from 20041119%$5,230
2Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States
3.29Q12.64 2.60 down from 20046311%—
3.07Q14.43 0.67 down from 2004634%$4,170
4Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States
2.22Q15.22 0.49 up from 20043738%$4,500
5Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.60Q13.08 0.12 down from 20044,1135%$4,040
6Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States
1.48Q12.84 0.75 down from 20047207%$4,500
7Journal of Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom
1.43Q23.18 0.32 up from 20044776%$4,430
1.34Q22.90 0.04 up from 20041,2328%$4,840
1.29Q22.44 0.17 down from 20049063%$4,110
1.05Q21.89no change6789%$4,030
11Journal of Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States
1.01Q22.27 0.28 down from 200473511%$3,500
12ChiralityWiley · United States
0.90Q31.96 0.13 up from 20043529%$4,030
13Supramolecular chemistryTaylor & Francis · Switzerland
0.85Q31.54 0.11 up from 20042284%—
14European Journal of Mass SpectrometrySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.84Q31.67 0.07 down from 20042140%$4,150
15Journal of Supramolecular ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.75Q3—no 2004 value74——
16Solid State Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States
0.69Q31.08 0.09 down from 20042006%$3,750
17Magnetic Resonance in ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom
0.62Q31.43 0.30 up from 20045279%$4,440
18ChromatographiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.61Q41.18 0.10 up from 20049397%$3,790
19Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.58Q41.56no 2004 value5015%——
20Journal of Molecular SpectroscopyElsevier BV · United States
0.46Q41.13 0.05 up from 20047193%$3,310
21Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of JapanOAMass Spectrometry Society of Japan · Japan
0.36Q40.85 0.53 up from 2004158100%—
22Chinese Journal of ChromatographyScience Press · China
0.01Q40.02 0.01 up from 20041420%—

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

8 additional Spectroscopy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
22
Window papers (baseline)
30,634 +10.0% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR
0.96 -3.3% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025)
1

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals2121232322222122222425252527282931292828272830343333
Window papers (baseline)27,50227,64027,84428,21829,02230,63432,38133,84434,49835,39335,53836,33636,85737,79638,66038,76638,24936,53534,91333,44633,07032,83432,53631,47430,68931,427
Median OJR0.9960.9830.9881.261.0860.961.211.151.251.080.9951.011.0930.9790.9840.830.790.770.690.670.600.560.530.5650.540.570

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.