Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2020
150 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 150 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.43, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2019; 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: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
150 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.17Q1 | 24.52 2.84 up from 2019 | 989 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 17.79 0.41 up from 2019 | 595 | 44% | $12,690 | ||
3Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.10Q1 | 16.45 0.08 up from 2019 | 7,618 | 42% | $4,500 | ||
4ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.87Q1 | 14.99 1.74 up from 2019 | 766 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
5Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.39Q1 | 14.20 1.34 up from 2019 | 10,050 | 44% | $5,510 | ||
6ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.98Q1 | 13.56 0.28 up from 2019 | 3,428 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
7Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 9.79 0.14 up from 2019 | 3,262 | 100% | — | ||
8Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 10.17 1.82 up from 2019 | 2,063 | 28% | — | ||
9CCS ChemistryOAChinese Chemical Society · China | 2.39Q1 | 8.61no 2019 value | 62 | 100% | — | — | |
10Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.29Q1 | 9.47 0.82 up from 2019 | 175 | 28% | $4,590 | ||
11ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.80Q1 | 7.02 0.25 up from 2019 | 806 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
12Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.66Q1 | 5.97 0.66 up from 2019 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
13The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.64Q1 | 6.77 1.44 up from 2019 | 377 | 31% | $4,710 | ||
14Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.52Q1 | 5.93 0.76 down from 2019 | 5,688 | 19% | $4,500 | ||
15Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 6.21 0.05 down from 2019 | 9,162 | 22% | — | ||
16Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 16.92 0.73 down from 2019 | 293 | 22% | — | ||
17Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 5.35 0.71 down from 2019 | 1,865 | 24% | $4,650 | ||
18Chemistry Central JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 4.60 1.05 up from 2019 | 283 | — | $2,040 | ||
19Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 4.90 0.21 down from 2019 | 1,379 | 11% | — | ||
20Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 5.57 1.12 up from 2019 | 2,272 | 22% | — | ||
21Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 1.17Q1 | 5.58 1.10 up from 2019 | 593 | 16% | $2,040 | ||
22Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 4.71 0.04 up from 2019 | 7,530 | 53% | $4,640 | ||
23The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.11Q1 | 4.13 0.58 down from 2019 | 4,684 | 20% | $4,500 | ||
24Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.10Q1 | 4.59 1.53 up from 2019 | 244 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
25Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.06Q1 | 4.53 0.54 up from 2019 | 1,583 | 17% | $4,520 | ||
26Trends in ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q1 | 14.55no 2019 value | 133 | 45% | $7,030 | — | |
27Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.01Q1 | 3.39 0.10 up from 2019 | 583 | 32% | — | ||
28OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.99Q1 | 4.07 0.05 up from 2019 | 1,664 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
29Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 3.82 0.28 up from 2019 | 3,516 | 16% | — | ||
30ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.97Q1 | 3.79 0.14 up from 2019 | 244 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
31European Journal of Lipid Science and TechnologyWiley · Germany | 0.85Q1 | 2.64 0.57 up from 2019 | 554 | 35% | $4,020 | ||
32Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.85Q1 | 3.38 0.14 up from 2019 | 751 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
33Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 0.85Q1 | 3.04 0.02 down from 2019 | 870 | 100% | — | ||
34Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.84Q1 | 4.76 1.40 up from 2019 | 653 | 9% | $3,300 | ||
35Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.79Q1 | 3.66 0.50 up from 2019 | 1,692 | 7% | $4,430 | ||
36European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.77Q1 | 2.71 0.13 down from 2019 | 2,772 | 34% | $4,330 | ||
37Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.76Q1 | 2.65 0.13 down from 2019 | 889 | — | $3,200 | ||
38Asian Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.76Q1 | 2.92 0.02 up from 2019 | 937 | 13% | $4,030 | ||
39SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 2.53 0.16 down from 2019 | 1,433 | 18% | — | ||
40Angewandte ChemieWiley · Germany | 0.71Q2 | 3.90 0.17 up from 2019 | 10,486 | 31% | $5,790 | ||
41Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.70Q2 | 2.00 0.45 down from 2019 | 292 | 10% | — | ||
42Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.70Q2 | 3.28 0.59 up from 2019 | 4,298 | 11% | $3,360 | ||
43Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.70Q2 | 2.37 0.47 up from 2019 | 307 | 16% | $4,290 | ||
44ChemistryOpenOAWileyOpen · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 2.42 0.09 up from 2019 | 455 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
45Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 2.02 0.25 up from 2019 | 612 | 15% | $3,800 | ||
46Cogent ChemistryOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 2.34 0.79 up from 2019 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
47ChemPlusChemWiley · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 2.56 0.21 up from 2019 | 582 | 39% | $4,030 | ||
48Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 0.63Q2 | 2.08 0.08 up from 2019 | 490 | 93% | $2,712 | ||
49TetrahedronElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.62Q2 | 1.93 0.23 down from 2019 | 2,675 | 13% | $3,680 | ||
50Journal of Sulfur ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q2 | 2.49 0.48 up from 2019 | 154 | 15% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry150
- Analytical Chemistry35
- Spectroscopy27
- Inorganic Chemistry16
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 150
- Window papers (baseline)
- 110,036 -20.8% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.43 -11.7% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 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.