Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Analytical Chemistry journal rankings 2022
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry has 36 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.42, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 0.79. The top three are Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, Talanta Open, and BMC Chemistry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
36 ranked journals
Filters
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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q1 | 6.19 1.52 up from 2021 | 121 | 25% | — | ||
2Talanta OpenOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 5.20 0.45 down from 2021 | 71 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
3BMC ChemistryOABioMed Central · Switzerland | 1.45Q1 | 5.46 0.95 up from 2021 | 272 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q1 | 4.54 0.11 up from 2021 | 995 | 22% | $3,450 | ||
5Reviews in Analytical ChemistryOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 4.86 1.70 up from 2021 | 46 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
6Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 4.34 0.07 up from 2021 | 528 | 29% | $3,970 | ||
7Food Analytical MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.06Q1 | 3.07 0.47 down from 2021 | 734 | 17% | $2,490 | ||
8Journal of ChemometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q1 | 2.32 0.05 down from 2021 | 247 | 30% | $3,710 | ||
9Vibrational SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.79Q1 | 2.66 0.32 up from 2021 | 328 | 23% | $3,760 | ||
10Journal of Near Infrared SpectroscopySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 2.13 0.38 up from 2021 | 110 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
11Atomic SpectroscopyAtomic Spectroscopy Press Limited · Hong Kong SAR China | 0.68Q2 | 2.98 0.48 up from 2021 | 129 | 86% | — | ||
12Journal of SpectroscopyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 1.99 0.05 up from 2021 | 129 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
13Analytical LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.60Q2 | 2.21 0.17 down from 2021 | 637 | 8% | — | ||
14Acta ChromatographicaOAUniversity of Silesia in Katowice · Poland | 0.59Q2 | 1.96 0.09 up from 2021 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
15Spectroscopy LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.47Q2 | 1.86 0.60 up from 2021 | 219 | 5% | — | ||
16Journal of Chromatographic ScienceOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.47Q2 | 1.43 0.08 down from 2021 | 408 | 8% | $4,822 | ||
17Journal of AOAC InternationalOxford University Press · United States | 0.46Q2 | 1.58 0.08 down from 2021 | 612 | 27% | $1,868 | ||
18Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related TechnologiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.45Q2 | 1.49no change | 246 | 14% | — | ||
19NIR newsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 1.42 0.51 up from 2021 | 72 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
20Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLCSpringer Science+Business Media · Hungary | 0.37Q3 | 1.61 0.44 up from 2021 | 201 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
21Analytical Chemistry LettersTaylor & Francis | 0.36Q3 | 1.37 0.06 down from 2021 | 188 | 38% | — | ||
22Drug Analytical ResearchOAHospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre ; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) · Brazil | 0.36Q3 | 1.03 0.08 down from 2021 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Chemical MetrologyOAACG Publications · Türkiye | 0.36Q3 | 1.77 0.55 up from 2021 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Analytical ChemistryPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.35Q3 | 1.29 0.01 up from 2021 | 589 | 9% | — | ||
25Separation Science PlusWiley · Germany | 0.29Q3 | 0.98 0.10 down from 2021 | 176 | 16% | $3,460 | ||
26American Journal of Analytical ChemistryOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.26Q3 | 1.18 0.23 up from 2021 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.19Q3 | 0.74 0.12 up from 2021 | 142 | 100% | — | |||
28Current Pharmaceutical AnalysisBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.18Q4 | 0.70 0.21 up from 2021 | 274 | 8% | $2,100 | ||
29International Journal of Analytical and Bioanalytical MethodsOAUnited Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.19 5.09 down from 2021 | 30 | — | — | ||
| 0.16Q4 | 0.47no 2021 value | 30 | — | — | |||
31SDRP Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAUnited States | 0.14Q4 | 0.41 0.17 down from 2021 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.10Q4 | 0.41 0.07 up from 2021 | 395 | 100% | — | |||
33Medicinal & Analytical Chemistry InternationalOAUnited States | 0.07Q4 | 0.18 0.02 up from 2021 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
34Pharmaceutical MethodsIndia | 0.07Q4 | 0.00 0.26 down from 2021 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
35International journal of advanced research in chemical sciencesOAPublisher not listed | 0.07Q4 | 0.19 0.05 down from 2021 | 90 | — | — | ||
36Pharmaceutica Analytica ActaOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.03Q4 | 0.07 0.14 down from 2021 | 107 | — | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Analytical Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry146
- Analytical Chemistry36
- Spectroscopy30
- Inorganic Chemistry17
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 additional Analytical Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,786 +6.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.42 +15.9% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 29 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 33 | 33 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 34 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 9,448 | 10,314 | 10,966 | 11,758 | 12,507 | 13,694 | 15,068 | 16,458 | 17,955 | 19,418 | 21,090 | 22,985 | 25,359 | 27,276 | 29,185 | 29,636 | 29,260 | 27,408 | 26,298 | 25,985 | 26,770 | 27,535 | 27,786 | 27,629 | 27,358 | 29,011 | |
| Median OJR | 0.55 | 0.536 | 0.64 | 0.543 | 0.677 | 0.49 | 0.413 | 0.576 | 0.57 | 0.582 | 0.683 | 0.62 | 0.447 | 0.464 | 0.539 | 0.52 | 0.458 | 0.408 | 0.459 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.410 | 0.42 | 0.48 | 0.450 | 0.535 |
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.