Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Chemistry journal rankings 2009
173 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Chemistry has 173 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 in Chemistry (6)
Up to Physical Sciences173 ranked journals
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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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 9.57Q1 | 20.29 6.47 up from 2008 | 438 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
2Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 5.04Q1 | 7.91 3.30 down from 2008 | 127 | 17% | $5,230 | ||
3Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 4.51Q1 | 9.19 0.54 up from 2008 | 5,988 | 22% | $5,510 | ||
4Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.32Q1 | 9.33 0.56 up from 2008 | 9,677 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
5Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 4.68 0.20 down from 2008 | 81 | 15% | $4,170 | ||
6Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 5.48 0.04 up from 2008 | 4,355 | 11% | — | ||
7Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.67Q1 | 5.74 0.26 up from 2008 | 4,493 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
8Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 2.61Q1 | 4.99 0.05 down from 2008 | 3,384 | 17% | $4,640 | ||
9Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 2.61Q1 | 4.95 0.59 down from 2008 | 1,119 | 11% | $4,650 | ||
10Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 5.45 0.86 up from 2008 | 590 | 8% | — | ||
11Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.30 0.72 down from 2008 | 63 | 5% | — | ||
12The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 2.12Q1 | 4.57 0.72 up from 2008 | 97 | 18% | $4,710 | ||
13Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.31 0.57 down from 2008 | 1,528 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
14The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.04Q1 | 4.38 0.22 up from 2008 | 4,610 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
15Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 4.34 0.17 up from 2008 | 3,781 | 10% | $4,040 | ||
16Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.96Q1 | 3.63 0.13 up from 2008 | 603 | 17% | $4,520 | ||
17OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.35 0.04 up from 2008 | 2,686 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
18Current Organic SynthesisBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 3.69 0.86 up from 2008 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
19Current Organic ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 3.12 0.22 down from 2008 | 271 | 5% | — | ||
20Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.11 0.35 up from 2008 | 1,949 | 10% | $3,200 | ||
21Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.83 0.11 up from 2008 | 1,613 | 12% | — | ||
22Journal of ChemometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.67 0.22 down from 2008 | 214 | 24% | $3,710 | ||
23Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.79 0.30 down from 2008 | 555 | 92% | $2,712 | ||
24Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 2.25 0.16 up from 2008 | 360 | 11% | $3,970 | ||
25Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.26 0.20 down from 2008 | 367 | 8% | $3,450 | ||
26Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.30 0.38 down from 2008 | 76 | 17% | — | ||
27Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.54Q1 | 3.63no change | 805 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
28TetrahedronElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 3.08 0.26 up from 2008 | 4,291 | 9% | $3,680 | ||
29Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 2.56 0.04 down from 2008 | 1,765 | 5% | — | ||
30Rapid Communications in Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 3.10 0.06 down from 2008 | 1,545 | 14% | $4,840 | ||
31Journal of Separation ScienceWiley · Germany | 1.42Q1 | 2.72 0.08 down from 2008 | 1,240 | 23% | $4,030 | ||
32Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 2.12 0.72 down from 2008 | 106 | 12% | $4,290 | ||
33Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.41 0.06 down from 2008 | 220 | 43% | — | ||
34European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 2.73 0.07 up from 2008 | 2,114 | 11% | $4,330 | ||
35Journal of Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.24 0.19 up from 2008 | 574 | 12% | $4,430 | ||
36Microporous and Mesoporous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 2.55 0.41 up from 2008 | 1,677 | 7% | $3,970 | ||
37International Journal of Mass SpectrometryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 2.33 0.62 down from 2008 | 884 | 8% | $4,110 | ||
38Theoretical Chemistry AccountsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 2.61 0.51 up from 2008 | 439 | 15% | $3,590 | ||
39Macromolecular Chemistry and PhysicsWiley · Germany | 1.29Q1 | 2.20 0.21 up from 2008 | 896 | 9% | $4,220 | ||
40Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.28Q1 | 2.14 0.18 up from 2008 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
41European Journal of Inorganic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 2.49 0.01 down from 2008 | 2,037 | 8% | $4,050 | ||
42Tetrahedron LettersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 2.63 0.12 up from 2008 | 6,166 | 10% | $3,610 | ||
43Australian Journal of ChemistryCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.17Q1 | 2.13 0.39 down from 2008 | 441 | 17% | — | ||
44Journal of Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 1.17Q1 | 2.78 0.26 up from 2008 | 710 | 30% | $3,500 | ||
45Journal of Organometallic ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 2.28 0.23 up from 2008 | 2,014 | 5% | $3,970 | ||
46Mini-Reviews in Organic ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 2.02 0.16 up from 2008 | 81 | 6% | — | ||
47Tetrahedron AsymmetryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.50 0.01 down from 2008 | 1,557 | 5% | — | ||
48Annual Reports Section B (Organic Chemistry)Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.33 0.67 up from 2008 | 58 | 8% | — | ||
49Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.92 0.02 up from 2008 | 1,119 | 9% | $3,800 | ||
50Journal of Near Infrared SpectroscopySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.19 0.80 down from 2008 | 156 | 5% | $4,150 |
Subfields of Chemistry, compared.
- Organic Chemistry106
- Analytical Chemistry24
- Spectroscopy24
- Inorganic Chemistry16
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry3
- Electrochemistry0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
44 additional Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 173
- Window papers (baseline)
- 230,433 +11.7% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.618 +9.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 25Comparison-group list (25)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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 | 137 | 138 | 149 | 153 | 155 | 159 | 159 | 160 | 166 | 173 | 176 | 181 | 195 | 215 | 221 | 228 | 235 | 232 | 231 | 233 | 234 | 237 | 235 | 239 | 232 | 232 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 172,482 | 176,080 | 179,077 | 183,694 | 189,084 | 197,327 | 206,346 | 215,895 | 224,057 | 230,433 | 236,603 | 243,807 | 254,287 | 261,691 | 269,998 | 272,767 | 273,338 | 265,414 | 249,893 | 237,248 | 230,533 | 232,668 | 233,225 | 229,202 | 225,643 | 230,176 | |
| Median OJR | 0.620 | 0.638 | 0.61 | 0.60 | 0.66 | 0.6173 | 0.57 | 0.6170 | 0.654 | 0.618 | 0.635 | 0.622 | 0.649 | 0.544 | 0.541 | 0.56 | 0.505 | 0.49559 | 0.491 | 0.432 | 0.434 | 0.48 | 0.486 | 0.499 | 0.49563 | 0.509 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.3% | 197 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.568 per 1,000 | 177 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -11.4% | 212 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 41.5% | 232 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,610 | 141 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 228 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 232 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.51 | 232 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 35.7% | 232 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 44.6% | 231 journals |
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.