Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Chemistry journal rankings 2018
231 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Chemistry has 231 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.49, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.88. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 7.44Q1 | 21.21 0.85 down from 2017 | 926 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 17.06 2.26 up from 2017 | 719 | 50% | $12,690 | ||
3Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.14Q1 | 16.12 0.31 up from 2017 | 7,460 | 40% | $4,500 | ||
4Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.83Q1 | 11.87 0.36 up from 2017 | 9,347 | 33% | $5,510 | ||
5ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.73Q1 | 12.69 0.18 up from 2017 | 2,790 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
6ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.72Q1 | 10.82 2.40 up from 2017 | 326 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
7Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.45Q1 | 10.41 3.71 up from 2017 | 50 | 23% | $4,170 | ||
8Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 3.23Q1 | 6.11 0.99 down from 2017 | 93 | 39% | $5,230 | ||
9Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 9.79 0.58 up from 2017 | 2,722 | 100% | — | ||
10Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 7.55 0.64 down from 2017 | 2,048 | 24% | — | ||
11Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.84Q1 | 7.84 1.56 up from 2017 | 165 | 30% | $4,590 | ||
12ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 6.37 0.08 down from 2017 | 839 | 26% | $4,500 | ||
13Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.19Q1 | 6.92 0.19 up from 2017 | 4,943 | 14% | $4,500 | ||
14Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 6.11 0.17 down from 2017 | 9,534 | 19% | — | ||
15Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 2.20 3.06 down from 2017 | 384 | 89% | $2,712 | ||
16Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 5.42 0.41 up from 2017 | 1,627 | 17% | $4,650 | ||
17Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.92 0.39 down from 2017 | 601 | 25% | $3,450 | ||
18Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 5.01 0.10 down from 2017 | 918 | 4% | — | ||
19Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 4.45 0.55 down from 2017 | 2,596 | 15% | — | ||
20The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.63Q1 | 4.91 0.95 up from 2017 | 389 | 26% | $4,710 | ||
21Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 2.96 0.02 down from 2017 | 650 | 18% | $3,970 | ||
22The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.59Q1 | 4.90 0.09 up from 2017 | 4,246 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
23Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.58Q1 | 4.00 0.25 up from 2017 | 80 | 45% | — | ||
24Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.56Q1 | 4.14 0.97 up from 2017 | 162 | 100% | — | ||
25Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 1.51Q1 | 4.81 0.07 up from 2017 | 7,983 | 35% | $4,640 | ||
26Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 4.07 0.08 down from 2017 | 2,954 | 19% | $4,040 | ||
27Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.41Q1 | 4.50 0.13 down from 2017 | 797 | — | — | ||
28Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.40Q1 | 4.18 0.08 down from 2017 | 1,273 | 43% | $4,500 | ||
29Clinical ProteomicsOABioMed Central · United States | 1.37Q1 | 3.70 0.78 down from 2017 | 103 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
30Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 16.54no 2017 value | 96 | 26% | — | — | |
31Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.32Q1 | 2.77 0.27 up from 2017 | 137 | 19% | — | ||
32Comments on Inorganic ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.29Q1 | 2.30 0.61 down from 2017 | 37 | 22% | — | ||
33Microporous and Mesoporous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 4.08 0.33 up from 2017 | 1,905 | 20% | $3,970 | ||
34Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.25Q1 | 3.34 0.30 down from 2017 | 673 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
35OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.25Q1 | 4.08 0.38 down from 2017 | 1,771 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
36Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.14 0.18 down from 2017 | 506 | 25% | — | ||
37Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 3.38 0.04 down from 2017 | 3,742 | 16% | — | ||
38Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 3.01 0.60 down from 2017 | 243 | 36% | — | ||
39Chemistry Central JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 2.82 0.02 down from 2017 | 285 | 100% | $2,040 | ||
40Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 3.48 0.17 up from 2017 | 1,352 | 15% | $4,520 | ||
41Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.10Q1 | 3.18 0.33 up from 2017 | 791 | 44% | $4,500 | ||
42ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.09Q1 | 3.29 0.18 down from 2017 | 249 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
43Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.08Q1 | 2.40 0.30 down from 2017 | 223 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
44Food Analytical MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.08Q1 | 2.30 0.10 up from 2017 | 1,021 | 13% | $2,490 | ||
45Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 1.07Q1 | 3.98 0.67 up from 2017 | 581 | 20% | $2,040 | ||
46Journal of Magnetic ResonanceElsevier BV · United States | 1.02Q1 | 2.68 0.10 up from 2017 | 679 | 48% | $3,500 | ||
47ChromatographyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.99Q1 | —no 2017 value | 39 | — | $378 | ||
48SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.97Q1 | 2.68 0.50 up from 2017 | 1,469 | 23% | — | ||
49European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.97Q1 | 3.01 0.38 up from 2017 | 2,665 | 22% | $4,330 | ||
50Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 0.95Q1 | 2.81 0.36 up from 2017 | 866 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, compared.
- Organic Chemistry146
- Analytical Chemistry33
- Spectroscopy28
- Inorganic Chemistry18
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
57 additional Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 231
- Window papers (baseline)
- 249,893 -8.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.491 -11.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 25Comparison-group list (25)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.