Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2019
152 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 152 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2018 to 0.42, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.80. 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 of Chemistry (6)
152 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 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 | ||
6ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.34Q1 | 13.28 0.59 up from 2018 | 3,207 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
7Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 9.65 0.14 down from 2018 | 2,937 | 100% | — | ||
8Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 8.34 0.80 up from 2018 | 1,998 | 22% | — | ||
9Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.57Q1 | 8.65 0.81 up from 2018 | 208 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
10ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.93Q1 | 6.77 0.40 up from 2018 | 799 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
11Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.85Q1 | 6.69 0.23 down from 2018 | 5,211 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
12Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 6.26 0.15 up from 2018 | 8,716 | 17% | — | ||
13Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 6.06 0.64 up from 2018 | 1,786 | 20% | $4,650 | ||
14The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.62Q1 | 5.34 0.43 up from 2018 | 479 | 23% | $4,710 | ||
15Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 5.11 0.09 up from 2018 | 1,147 | 10% | — | ||
16Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.49Q1 | 5.30 1.17 up from 2018 | 145 | 100% | — | ||
17Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 4.45no change | 2,353 | 16% | — | ||
18Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 17.65 1.11 up from 2018 | 205 | 28% | — | ||
19Journal of Molecular Catalysis A ChemicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 0.02 4.49 down from 2018 | 454 | — | — | ||
20The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.38Q1 | 4.70 0.20 down from 2018 | 4,462 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
21Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 1.34Q1 | 4.67 0.14 down from 2018 | 7,994 | 43% | $4,640 | ||
22Chemistry Central JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.55 0.72 up from 2018 | 364 | — | $2,040 | ||
23OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.13Q1 | 4.02 0.06 down from 2018 | 1,719 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
24Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 3.29 0.14 up from 2018 | 513 | 29% | — | ||
25Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 1.11Q1 | 4.47 0.49 up from 2018 | 564 | 20% | $2,040 | ||
26Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 3.55 0.17 up from 2018 | 3,698 | 17% | — | ||
27ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.04Q1 | 3.65 0.36 up from 2018 | 245 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
28Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.04Q1 | 3.99 0.51 up from 2018 | 1,514 | 13% | $4,520 | ||
29Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 0.98Q1 | 3.06 0.66 up from 2018 | 238 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
30Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.95Q1 | 3.25 0.10 down from 2018 | 664 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
31Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 0.94Q1 | 3.06 0.25 up from 2018 | 861 | 100% | — | ||
32Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 0.90Q1 | 2.00 0.21 down from 2018 | 419 | 81% | $2,712 | ||
33Asian Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.86Q1 | 2.90 0.57 up from 2018 | 846 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
34European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.85Q1 | 2.84 0.17 down from 2018 | 2,674 | 27% | $4,330 | ||
35Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.84Q1 | 2.78 0.06 down from 2018 | 1,012 | 29% | $3,200 | ||
36SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.84Q1 | 2.69 0.02 up from 2018 | 1,533 | 24% | — | ||
37Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q1 | 3.15 0.85 up from 2018 | 1,268 | 7% | $4,430 | ||
38Angewandte ChemieWiley · Germany | 0.80Q1 | 3.73 0.24 up from 2018 | 9,985 | 24% | $5,790 | ||
39European Journal of Lipid Science and TechnologyWiley · Germany | 0.80Q2 | 2.06 0.12 up from 2018 | 554 | 36% | $4,020 | ||
40Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.74Q2 | 3.36 1.20 up from 2018 | 642 | 10% | $3,300 | ||
41ChemPlusChemWiley · Germany | 0.74Q2 | 2.35 0.56 down from 2018 | 556 | 35% | $4,030 | ||
42Tetrahedron LettersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 2.25 0.05 down from 2018 | 3,515 | 9% | $3,610 | ||
43ChemistryOpenOAWileyOpen · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 2.33 0.36 up from 2018 | 336 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
44TetrahedronElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 2.16 0.20 down from 2018 | 2,837 | 15% | $3,680 | ||
45Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.71Q2 | 2.45 0.51 up from 2018 | 282 | 13% | — | ||
46Current Organic ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.68Q2 | 2.05 0.38 up from 2018 | 454 | 14% | — | ||
47Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.77 0.02 up from 2018 | 628 | 22% | $3,800 | ||
48SynlettThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.66Q2 | 2.01 0.19 down from 2018 | 1,473 | 29% | — | ||
49Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 2.69 0.47 up from 2018 | 3,903 | 11% | $3,360 | ||
50Journal of Organometallic ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 2.22 0.23 up from 2018 | 1,403 | 16% | $3,970 |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic Chemistry highlighted.
- 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.
25 additional Organic 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
- 152
- Window papers (baseline)
- 117,699 -17.3% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.42 -17.6% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
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 | 85 | 84 | 90 | 90 | 94 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 104 | 106 | 107 | 112 | 118 | 131 | 136 | 140 | 140 | 145 | 146 | 152 | 150 | 151 | 146 | 147 | 144 | 142 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 94,510 | 96,359 | 97,741 | 99,911 | 102,223 | 105,643 | 109,337 | 113,552 | 117,231 | 119,740 | 122,387 | 125,371 | 129,784 | 132,620 | 137,393 | 139,961 | 142,323 | 138,875 | 127,841 | 117,699 | 110,036 | 110,502 | 110,400 | 108,772 | 107,132 | 108,375 | |
| Median OJR | 0.612 | 0.610 | 0.57 | 0.59 | 0.53 | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.60 | 0.67 | 0.614 | 0.6331 | 0.6327 | 0.66 | 0.58 | 0.554 | 0.550 | 0.504 | 0.487 | 0.492 | 0.42 | 0.43 | 0.48 | 0.496 | 0.52 | 0.513 | 0.509 |
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.