Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2022
146 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 146 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 0.77. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Chem.
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)
146 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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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.19Q1 | 19.12 4.76 down from 2021 | 959 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 16.11 1.48 down from 2021 | 614 | 46% | $12,690 | ||
3ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.73Q1 | 15.07 0.85 down from 2021 | 854 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
4Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.73Q1 | 16.34 0.56 down from 2021 | 7,320 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
5Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.38Q1 | 15.36 0.14 up from 2021 | 10,581 | 41% | $5,510 | ||
6Green Synthesis and CatalysisOAElsevier BV · China | 2.98Q1 | 11.82 1.78 up from 2021 | 94 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
7ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.80Q1 | 13.51 0.35 down from 2021 | 3,832 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
8Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 10.18 0.33 down from 2021 | 2,355 | 25% | — | ||
9Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 8.63 0.62 down from 2021 | 4,317 | 100% | — | ||
10Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.87Q1 | 7.82 1.59 up from 2021 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
11Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.82Q1 | 8.48 0.60 down from 2021 | 135 | 40% | $4,590 | ||
12CCS ChemistryOAChinese Chemical Society · China | 1.78Q1 | 7.44 0.95 up from 2021 | 703 | 100% | — | ||
13Current Research in Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 6.41 0.29 up from 2021 | 242 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
14The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.58Q1 | 5.98 0.09 down from 2021 | 438 | 17% | $4,710 | ||
15Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 18.91 1.10 up from 2021 | 276 | 29% | — | ||
16Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.43Q1 | 6.03 0.60 up from 2021 | 274 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
17ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.43Q1 | 5.55 1.23 down from 2021 | 738 | 20% | $4,500 | ||
18Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.39Q1 | 5.64 0.66 down from 2021 | 5,773 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
19Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 5.65 0.10 down from 2021 | 1,655 | 22% | $4,650 | ||
20Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 5.72 0.42 up from 2021 | 1,709 | 7% | — | ||
21Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 5.03 0.72 down from 2021 | 9,115 | 22% | — | ||
22Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.11Q1 | 4.33 0.92 up from 2021 | 435 | 25% | $4,290 | ||
23Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.06Q1 | 4.64 0.49 down from 2021 | 2,027 | 21% | — | ||
24Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.04Q1 | 4.98 0.55 up from 2021 | 957 | 12% | $3,300 | ||
25ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.97Q1 | 5.12 0.88 up from 2021 | 172 | — | $4,500 | ||
26Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 0.95Q1 | 4.25 0.39 down from 2021 | 1,536 | 15% | $4,520 | ||
27The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.95Q1 | 3.88 0.49 down from 2021 | 4,702 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
28ACS Polymers AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.95Q1 | 3.41no 2021 value | 34 | 100% | $3,500 | — | |
29Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.93Q1 | 3.73 0.26 down from 2021 | 530 | 20% | — | ||
30Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 0.92Q1 | 3.96 0.34 down from 2021 | 6,720 | 47% | $4,640 | ||
31Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.88Q1 | 3.46 0.49 down from 2021 | 3,148 | 15% | — | ||
32Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.86Q1 | 4.00 0.35 up from 2021 | 5,675 | 10% | $3,360 | ||
33Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 0.85Q1 | 4.37 0.40 up from 2021 | 663 | 6% | $2,040 | ||
34European Journal of Lipid Science and TechnologyWiley · Germany | 0.81Q1 | 2.50 0.56 down from 2021 | 396 | 29% | $4,020 | ||
35Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.81Q1 | 3.54 0.23 down from 2021 | 1,807 | 10% | $4,430 | ||
36Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.79Q1 | 2.95 0.19 up from 2021 | 615 | 28% | $3,800 | ||
37Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.77Q1 | 3.48 0.64 down from 2021 | 892 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
38OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.77Q2 | 3.16 0.78 down from 2021 | 1,406 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
39Medicinal Chemistry ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.76Q2 | 2.88 0.44 up from 2021 | 526 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
40Chemical Data CollectionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.74Q2 | 3.10 0.37 up from 2021 | 631 | 3% | $1,330 | ||
41Asian Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.71Q2 | 2.73 0.24 down from 2021 | 1,018 | 8% | $4,030 | ||
42Journal of Computational Biophysics and ChemistryWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.70Q2 | 2.52 0.04 down from 2021 | 83 | 4% | — | ||
43European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.69Q2 | 2.69 0.59 down from 2021 | 2,540 | 34% | $4,330 | ||
44Trends in ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.69Q2 | 8.66 3.64 down from 2021 | 399 | 26% | $7,030 | ||
45ChemPlusChemWiley · Germany | 0.69Q2 | 3.17 0.30 up from 2021 | 785 | 36% | $4,030 | ||
46Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOABeilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 3.02 0.24 up from 2021 | 758 | 100% | — | ||
47Results in ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.68Q2 | 2.51 0.11 down from 2021 | 264 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
48OrganicsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.66Q2 | 2.30 6.70 down from 2021 | 30 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
49Research on Chemical IntermediatesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.65Q2 | 3.51 0.33 up from 2021 | 890 | 6% | $4,090 | ||
50SynthesisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.62Q2 | 2.31 0.34 down from 2021 | 1,394 | 20% | — |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic 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.
28 additional Organic 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
- 146
- Window papers (baseline)
- 110,400 -6.2% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.496 +19.3% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
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 | 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.