Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Chemistry journal rankings 2019
233 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Chemistry has 233 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2018 to 0.43, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.76. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.75Q1 | 21.67 0.47 up from 2018 | 958 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 17.39 0.32 up from 2018 | 675 | 46% | $12,690 | ||
3Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.50Q1 | 16.37 0.25 up from 2018 | 7,517 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
4ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.81Q1 | 13.25 2.43 up from 2018 | 606 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
5Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.56Q1 | 12.87 1.00 up from 2018 | 9,568 | 38% | $5,510 | ||
6Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 10.94 0.54 up from 2018 | 54 | 47% | $4,170 | ||
7ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.34Q1 | 13.28 0.59 up from 2018 | 3,207 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
8Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 9.65 0.14 down from 2018 | 2,937 | 100% | — | ||
9Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 2.86Q1 | 7.12 1.01 up from 2018 | 84 | 42% | $5,230 | ||
10Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 8.34 0.80 up from 2018 | 1,998 | 22% | — | ||
11Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.57Q1 | 8.65 0.81 up from 2018 | 208 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
12ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.93Q1 | 6.77 0.40 up from 2018 | 799 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
13Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.85Q1 | 6.69 0.23 down from 2018 | 5,211 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
14Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.93 1.01 up from 2018 | 555 | 25% | $3,450 | ||
15Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 6.26 0.15 up from 2018 | 8,716 | 17% | — | ||
16Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 6.06 0.64 up from 2018 | 1,786 | 20% | $4,650 | ||
17The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.62Q1 | 5.34 0.43 up from 2018 | 479 | 23% | $4,710 | ||
18Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 5.11 0.09 up from 2018 | 1,147 | 10% | — | ||
19Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.54Q1 | 3.14 0.86 down from 2018 | 64 | 42% | — | ||
20Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.51Q1 | 4.71 1.95 up from 2018 | 130 | 20% | — | ||
21Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.83 0.87 up from 2018 | 579 | 25% | $3,970 | ||
22Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.49Q1 | 5.30 1.17 up from 2018 | 145 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 4.46 0.39 up from 2018 | 2,729 | 22% | $4,040 | ||
24Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 4.45no change | 2,353 | 16% | — | ||
25Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 17.65 1.11 up from 2018 | 205 | 28% | — | ||
26Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 0.02 4.49 down from 2018 | 454 | — | — | ||
27The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.38Q1 | 4.70 0.20 down from 2018 | 4,462 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
28Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.35Q1 | 4.45 0.28 up from 2018 | 1,256 | 40% | $4,500 | ||
29Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 1.34Q1 | 4.67 0.14 down from 2018 | 7,994 | 43% | $4,640 | ||
30Microporous and Mesoporous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 4.79 0.72 up from 2018 | 1,842 | 21% | $3,970 | ||
31Clinical ProteomicsOABioMed Central · United States | 1.28Q1 | 3.17 0.54 down from 2018 | 117 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
32Chemistry Central JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.55 0.72 up from 2018 | 364 | — | $2,040 | ||
33Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.88 0.87 up from 2018 | 250 | 35% | — | ||
34Food Analytical MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.14Q1 | 2.93 0.64 up from 2018 | 991 | 10% | $2,490 | ||
35OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.13Q1 | 4.02 0.06 down from 2018 | 1,719 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
36Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 3.29 0.14 up from 2018 | 513 | 29% | — | ||
37Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 1.11Q1 | 4.47 0.49 up from 2018 | 564 | 20% | $2,040 | ||
38Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 3.55 0.17 up from 2018 | 3,698 | 17% | — | ||
39Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.07Q1 | 3.29 0.11 up from 2018 | 800 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
40ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.04Q1 | 3.65 0.36 up from 2018 | 245 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
41Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.04Q1 | 3.99 0.51 up from 2018 | 1,514 | 13% | $4,520 | ||
42Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 0.98Q1 | 3.06 0.66 up from 2018 | 238 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
43Journal of Separation ScienceWiley · Germany | 0.96Q1 | 3.04 0.50 up from 2018 | 1,570 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
44Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.95Q1 | 3.25 0.10 down from 2018 | 664 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
45Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 0.94Q1 | 3.06 0.25 up from 2018 | 861 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Chemical EducationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.94Q1 | 2.98 1.00 up from 2018 | 1,025 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
47Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 0.90Q1 | 2.00 0.21 down from 2018 | 419 | 81% | $2,712 | ||
48Asian Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.86Q1 | 2.90 0.57 up from 2018 | 846 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
49Reviews in Analytical ChemistryOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.86Q1 | 2.09 0.22 down from 2018 | 43 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
50Bulletin of Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University OAEgypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research · Egypt | 0.85Q1 | 2.11 0.89 up from 2018 | 101 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, compared.
- Organic Chemistry152
- Analytical Chemistry30
- Spectroscopy28
- Inorganic Chemistry17
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 233
- Window papers (baseline)
- 237,248 -13.2% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.432 -14.6% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 25Comparison-group list (25)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.