Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Spectroscopy journal rankings 2016
31 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Spectroscopy has 31 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, and Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
31 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 6.84 3.38 down from 2015 | 49 | 43% | $4,170 | ||
2Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 2.84Q1 | 6.58 0.53 up from 2015 | 114 | 24% | $5,230 | ||
3Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.80Q1 | 4.58 1.75 up from 2015 | 70 | 26% | — | ||
4Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.69 0.05 down from 2015 | 1,520 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
5Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 4.14 0.30 down from 2015 | 3,241 | 13% | $4,040 | ||
6Clinical ProteomicsOABioMed Central · United States | 1.67Q1 | 4.23 0.19 down from 2015 | 94 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
7International Journal of ProteomicsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 1.59Q1 | 4.04 0.32 up from 2015 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
8Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 3.89 0.27 up from 2015 | 200 | 40% | — | ||
9Journal of Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.43 0.11 down from 2015 | 553 | 13% | $4,430 | ||
10Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.09Q2 | 3.13 0.18 up from 2015 | 762 | 35% | $4,500 | ||
11Journal of Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 1.05Q2 | 2.61 0.34 down from 2015 | 671 | 43% | $3,500 | ||
12Journal of Separation ScienceWiley · Germany | 0.94Q2 | 2.58 0.12 down from 2015 | 1,582 | 9% | $4,030 | ||
13Rapid Communications in Mass SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.07 0.25 down from 2015 | 929 | 25% | $4,840 | ||
14Solid State Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 0.85Q2 | 2.05 0.15 up from 2015 | 139 | 25% | $3,750 | ||
15ChiralityWiley · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.76 0.28 down from 2015 | 401 | 18% | $4,030 | ||
16International Journal of Mass SpectrometryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.79Q2 | 1.88 0.11 down from 2015 | 704 | 24% | $4,110 | ||
17Translational ProteomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.75Q3 | 1.42 0.30 down from 2015 | 33 | — | $1,950 | ||
18EuPA Open ProteomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.70Q3 | 1.63 0.24 up from 2015 | 123 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
19Journal of Molecular SpectroscopyElsevier BV · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.64 0.01 up from 2015 | 364 | 33% | $3,310 | ||
20ChromatographiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 1.23 0.16 down from 2015 | 602 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
21Magnetic Resonance in ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.69 0.40 up from 2015 | 449 | 19% | $4,440 | ||
22International Journal for Ion Mobility SpectrometrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.54Q3 | 1.25 0.83 down from 2015 | 70 | 27% | $3,280 | ||
23Supramolecular chemistryTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.53Q3 | 1.29 0.07 up from 2015 | 345 | 22% | — | ||
24Mass SpectrometryOAMass Spectrometry Society of Japan · Japan | 0.50Q3 | 1.10 0.16 down from 2015 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
25European Journal of Mass SpectrometrySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 1.14 0.09 up from 2015 | 182 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
26ChromatographyOAJapan | 0.29Q4 | 0.85 0.39 down from 2015 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Chromatography & Separation TechniquesOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.50 0.92 down from 2015 | 326 | 4% | — | ||
28Journal of Analytical Sciences Methods and InstrumentationOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.44 0.23 down from 2015 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
29Mass spectrometry lettersOAKorean Society for Mass Spectrometry · South Korea | 0.17Q4 | 0.46 0.14 down from 2015 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
30Chinese Journal of ChromatographyScience Press · China | 0.11Q4 | 0.20 0.04 up from 2015 | 952 | 9% | — | ||
31Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of JapanOAMass Spectrometry Society of Japan · Japan | 0.00Q4 | 0.02 0.03 down from 2015 | 99 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Spectroscopy highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry140
- Analytical Chemistry39
- Spectroscopy31
- Inorganic Chemistry20
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry4
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 31
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,249 +1.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.79 -19.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.