Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2021
151 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 151 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.48, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 0.77. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Chem.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
151 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.91Q1 | 23.88 0.63 down from 2020 | 933 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 17.58 0.21 down from 2020 | 598 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
3ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.91Q1 | 15.92 0.92 up from 2020 | 866 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
4Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.81Q1 | 16.90 0.45 up from 2020 | 7,367 | 40% | $4,500 | ||
5Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.38Q1 | 15.22 1.02 up from 2020 | 10,540 | 42% | $5,510 | ||
6ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.84Q1 | 13.86 0.30 up from 2020 | 3,703 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
7Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.38Q1 | 9.08 0.39 down from 2020 | 132 | 27% | $4,590 | ||
8Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 10.51 0.34 up from 2020 | 2,062 | 27% | — | ||
9Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 9.24 0.54 down from 2020 | 3,934 | 100% | — | ||
10Chemistry Central JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | —no 2020 value | 148 | — | $2,040 | ||
11ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.64Q1 | 6.78 0.24 down from 2020 | 766 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
12Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.58Q1 | 6.24 0.27 up from 2020 | 145 | 100% | — | ||
13CCS ChemistryOAChinese Chemical Society · China | 1.57Q1 | 6.50 2.12 down from 2020 | 368 | 100% | — | ||
14The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.53Q1 | 6.06 0.71 down from 2020 | 380 | 24% | $4,710 | ||
15Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.48Q1 | 6.30 0.37 up from 2020 | 5,805 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
16Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.42Q1 | 5.75 0.40 up from 2020 | 1,784 | 24% | $4,650 | ||
17Current Research in Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 6.12no 2020 value | 49 | 100% | $2,500 | — | |
18Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 17.80 0.88 up from 2020 | 283 | 21% | — | ||
19Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 5.74 0.47 down from 2020 | 9,475 | 19% | — | ||
20Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.29Q1 | 5.43 0.84 up from 2020 | 241 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
21Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 5.30 0.40 up from 2020 | 1,435 | 8% | — | ||
22Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 5.13 0.44 down from 2020 | 1,961 | 22% | — | ||
23The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.05Q1 | 4.37 0.25 up from 2020 | 4,680 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
24Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 1.04Q1 | 4.31 0.40 down from 2020 | 7,396 | 49% | $4,640 | ||
25Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 1.04Q1 | 4.65 0.12 up from 2020 | 1,614 | 9% | $4,520 | ||
26Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.03Q1 | 4.43 0.32 down from 2020 | 714 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
27OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.98Q1 | 3.94 0.13 down from 2020 | 1,529 | 24% | $4,500 | ||
28ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.95Q1 | 4.24 0.45 up from 2020 | 249 | — | $4,500 | ||
29Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 3.95 0.13 up from 2020 | 3,261 | 17% | — | ||
30Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 3.99 0.60 up from 2020 | 583 | 23% | — | ||
31Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 0.94Q1 | 3.97 1.61 down from 2020 | 643 | 13% | $2,040 | ||
32European Journal of Lipid Science and TechnologyWiley · Germany | 0.91Q1 | 3.06 0.43 up from 2020 | 466 | 28% | $4,020 | ||
33Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.87Q1 | 4.12 0.74 up from 2020 | 818 | 13% | $4,500 | ||
34Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q1 | 3.40 1.03 up from 2020 | 348 | 29% | $4,290 | ||
35Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q1 | 3.77 0.12 up from 2020 | 1,907 | 5% | $4,430 | ||
36Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 0.79Q1 | 2.78 0.26 down from 2020 | 847 | 100% | — | ||
37Asian Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.78Q1 | 2.97 0.05 up from 2020 | 923 | 9% | $4,030 | ||
38European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.77Q1 | 3.28 0.57 up from 2020 | 2,765 | 38% | $4,330 | ||
39Trends in ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 12.30 2.25 down from 2020 | 272 | 48% | $7,030 | ||
40Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 3.65 0.38 up from 2020 | 4,776 | 11% | $3,360 | ||
41Cogent ChemistryOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 3.37 1.03 up from 2020 | 49 | — | — | ||
42SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 2.65 0.12 up from 2020 | 1,392 | 21% | — | ||
43Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 2.76 0.75 up from 2020 | 626 | 17% | $3,800 | ||
44Results in ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.71Q2 | 2.63 0.83 up from 2020 | 88 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
45ChemistryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.70Q2 | 2.96 0.96 up from 2020 | 74 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
46Angewandte ChemieWiley · Germany | 0.65Q2 | 3.71 0.18 down from 2020 | 11,005 | 32% | $5,790 | ||
47ChemPlusChemWiley · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 2.87 0.30 up from 2020 | 756 | 38% | $4,030 | ||
48Chemical Data CollectionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 2.73 0.30 up from 2020 | 540 | 5% | $1,330 | ||
49Medicinal Chemistry ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.64Q2 | 2.45 0.42 up from 2020 | 529 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
50Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 2.07no change | 421 | 99% | $2,712 |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry151
- Analytical Chemistry35
- Spectroscopy28
- Inorganic Chemistry17
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
28 additional Organic Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 151
- Window papers (baseline)
- 110,502 -13.6% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.48 -2.7% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.