Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Chemistry journal rankings 2013
215 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Chemistry has 215 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2012 to 0.54, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
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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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 10.46Q1 | 23.17 1.79 up from 2012 | 556 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 11.92 1.71 up from 2012 | 945 | 26% | $12,690 | ||
3Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.05Q1 | 12.78 0.99 up from 2012 | 9,650 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
4Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 4.42Q1 | 10.50 0.23 up from 2012 | 7,424 | 23% | $5,510 | ||
5Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 9.04 0.30 up from 2012 | 1,061 | 31% | — | ||
6ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.77Q1 | 8.92 2.70 up from 2012 | 544 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
7Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.69Q1 | 8.63 1.58 up from 2012 | 69 | 33% | $4,170 | ||
8Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 8.14 0.36 up from 2012 | 1,246 | 15% | — | ||
9Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 3.40Q1 | 7.88 0.25 up from 2012 | 110 | 21% | $5,230 | ||
10Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 7.37 0.42 up from 2012 | 9,268 | 14% | — | ||
11Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.88Q1 | 7.08 0.47 up from 2012 | 4,805 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
12ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.88Q1 | 5.90 1.59 up from 2012 | 327 | 11% | $4,500 | ||
13Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 2.65Q1 | 6.03 0.55 up from 2012 | 1,295 | 12% | $4,650 | ||
14Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 2.42Q1 | 5.67 0.04 up from 2012 | 5,991 | 15% | $4,640 | ||
15Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 5.54 0.16 down from 2012 | 1,121 | 10% | — | ||
16Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.83 0.17 up from 2012 | 81 | 6% | — | ||
17Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.59 0.05 down from 2012 | 1,670 | 39% | $4,500 | ||
18The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.07Q1 | 5.03 0.03 down from 2012 | 3,801 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
19Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 4.71 0.18 down from 2012 | 3,208 | 11% | $4,040 | ||
20Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 2.88 0.28 up from 2012 | 409 | 14% | $3,970 | ||
21Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.47 0.09 down from 2012 | 55 | 27% | — | ||
22Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.05 0.16 up from 2012 | 374 | 11% | $3,450 | ||
23Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 3.75 0.22 down from 2012 | 1,254 | 7% | $4,520 | ||
24OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.81 0.29 up from 2012 | 2,720 | 12% | $4,500 | ||
25Journal of ChemometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.16 0.36 down from 2012 | 209 | 12% | $3,710 | ||
26The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 3.02 0.23 down from 2012 | 158 | 37% | $4,710 | ||
27Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.80 0.04 down from 2012 | 2,993 | 18% | — | ||
28Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 3.60 0.39 up from 2012 | 891 | 8% | — | ||
29Chemistry Central JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.57 0.41 up from 2012 | 294 | 100% | $2,040 | ||
30Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 2.82 0.55 down from 2012 | 572 | 91% | $2,712 | ||
31ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.47Q1 | 3.71 0.21 down from 2012 | 197 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
32Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 3.16 0.31 up from 2012 | 502 | 17% | — | ||
33Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.42Q1 | 3.11 0.59 up from 2012 | 167 | 100% | — | ||
34Microporous and Mesoporous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 3.13 0.32 up from 2012 | 1,459 | 11% | $3,970 | ||
35Current Organic ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.41Q1 | 2.67 0.59 down from 2012 | 558 | 8% | — | ||
36Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.41Q1 | 3.29 0.50 down from 2012 | 1,903 | 6% | $3,200 | ||
37ChemPlusChemWiley · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 2.79 1.35 up from 2012 | 196 | 19% | $4,030 | ||
38Journal of Near Infrared SpectroscopySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 1.92 0.11 up from 2012 | 159 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
39Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 3.80 0.08 down from 2012 | 225 | 27% | — | ||
40Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.37Q1 | 3.52 0.15 down from 2012 | 706 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
41Journal of Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 2.96 0.21 down from 2012 | 521 | 12% | $4,430 | ||
42Clinical ProteomicsOABioMed Central · United States | 1.34Q1 | 4.13 1.26 up from 2012 | 52 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
43Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 3.14 0.15 up from 2012 | 587 | 100% | — | ||
44Rapid Communications in Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 2.81 0.05 down from 2012 | 1,315 | 13% | $4,840 | ||
45European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.30Q1 | 3.13 0.13 up from 2012 | 2,643 | 16% | $4,330 | ||
46TetrahedronElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.00 0.14 up from 2012 | 3,929 | 10% | $3,680 | ||
47Heteroatom ChemistryOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.84 0.25 up from 2012 | 261 | 0% | $1,630 | ||
48Journal of Separation ScienceWiley · Germany | 1.23Q1 | 2.69 0.16 down from 2012 | 1,503 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
49Solid State Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q1 | 2.56 0.39 up from 2012 | 131 | 7% | $3,750 | ||
50Organic and Medicinal Chemistry LettersSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.34 0.59 up from 2012 | 50 | 92% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, compared.
- Organic Chemistry131
- Analytical Chemistry34
- Spectroscopy27
- Inorganic Chemistry19
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry3
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
61 additional Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 215
- Window papers (baseline)
- 261,691 +10.6% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.544 -14.4% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 25Comparison-group list (25)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.