Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Chemistry journal rankings 2023
239 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Chemistry has 239 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.79. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 in Chemistry (6)
Up to Physical Sciences239 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.73Q1 | 18.24 0.88 down from 2022 | 933 | 39% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 14.98 1.13 down from 2022 | 666 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
3Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.68Q1 | 15.70 0.64 down from 2022 | 7,352 | 46% | $4,500 | ||
4ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.52Q1 | 11.92 3.15 down from 2022 | 878 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
5Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.28Q1 | 14.57 0.79 down from 2022 | 10,757 | 62% | $5,510 | ||
6Nature SynthesisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 9.47 2.53 down from 2022 | 191 | 25% | $12,690 | ||
7ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.60Q1 | 12.60 0.92 down from 2022 | 4,023 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
8Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 9.26 3.48 up from 2022 | 41 | 64% | $4,170 | ||
9Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 9.47 0.71 down from 2022 | 2,439 | 37% | — | ||
10Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 7.87 0.76 down from 2022 | 4,517 | 100% | — | ||
11CCS ChemistryOAChinese Chemical Society · China | 1.86Q1 | 8.32 0.88 up from 2022 | 890 | 100% | — | ||
12Green Synthesis and CatalysisOAElsevier BV · China | 1.79Q1 | 6.40 5.42 down from 2022 | 181 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Current Research in Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 7.38 0.97 up from 2022 | 340 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
14Applied Spectroscopy ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.76Q1 | 6.55 0.36 up from 2022 | 103 | 7% | — | ||
15Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 22.32 3.41 up from 2022 | 287 | 23% | — | ||
16Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.75Q1 | 8.21 0.39 up from 2022 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
17Mass Spectrometry ReviewsWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 6.30 0.72 up from 2022 | 187 | 61% | $5,230 | ||
18The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 7.03 1.05 up from 2022 | 520 | 43% | $4,710 | ||
19Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 7.25 1.23 down from 2022 | 143 | 29% | $4,590 | ||
20Advances in Sample PreparationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 6.11 5.11 up from 2022 | 45 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
21Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.66Q1 | 6.86 0.83 up from 2022 | 325 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
22BMC ChemistryOABioMed Central · Switzerland | 1.50Q1 | 5.02 0.43 down from 2022 | 252 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
23Journal of Food Composition and AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q1 | 4.63 0.09 up from 2022 | 1,452 | 20% | $3,450 | ||
24Talanta OpenOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 4.74 0.45 down from 2022 | 161 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
25Green Analytical ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 5.42no 2022 value | 43 | 100% | $1,550 | — | |
26Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.38Q1 | 4.74 0.42 up from 2022 | 552 | 18% | $4,290 | ||
27ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.33Q1 | 5.33 0.21 down from 2022 | 671 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
28Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.32Q1 | 5.38 0.27 down from 2022 | 5,335 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
29Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 4.38 0.04 up from 2022 | 549 | 37% | $3,970 | ||
30Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 4.84 0.89 down from 2022 | 1,959 | 19% | — | ||
31European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ReportsOAElsevier BV · France | 1.26Q1 | 3.92 0.38 down from 2022 | 90 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
32ACS Polymers AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.26Q1 | 4.97 1.56 up from 2022 | 77 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
33Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 4.65 1.00 down from 2022 | 1,488 | 49% | $4,650 | ||
34Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.23Q1 | 4.83 0.17 up from 2022 | 51 | 39% | — | ||
35Reviews in Analytical ChemistryOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.20Q1 | 3.86 0.99 down from 2022 | 65 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
36Tetrahedron ChemOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 3.56 0.31 up from 2022 | 32 | 100% | $2,660 | ||
37Clinical ProteomicsOABioMed Central · United States | 1.14Q1 | 2.90 1.41 down from 2022 | 120 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
38Microporous and Mesoporous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q1 | 4.79 0.44 down from 2022 | 1,986 | 26% | $3,970 | ||
39ACS Organic & Inorganic AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.12Q1 | 4.08 0.01 up from 2022 | 73 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
40ChemTextsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.12Q1 | 3.24 1.02 up from 2022 | 68 | 64% | $4,190 | ||
41Expert Review of ProteomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 3.94 0.10 up from 2022 | 156 | 33% | — | ||
42Journal of Proteome ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.10Q1 | 4.00 0.95 down from 2022 | 1,145 | 54% | $4,500 | ||
43Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 4.34 0.30 down from 2022 | 1,912 | 49% | — | ||
44Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany | 1.04Q1 | 4.63 0.35 down from 2022 | 1,128 | 54% | $3,300 | ||
45Journal of Chromatography AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q1 | 4.12 0.47 down from 2022 | 2,215 | 33% | $4,040 | ||
46Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 4.60 0.43 down from 2022 | 8,241 | 35% | — | ||
47Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical LabOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q1 | 3.24 0.67 up from 2022 | 71 | 100% | $900 | ||
48Journal of Chemical EducationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.99Q1 | 3.15 0.46 down from 2022 | 1,716 | 39% | $4,500 | ||
49Food Analytical MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.96Q1 | 3.17 0.10 up from 2022 | 709 | 21% | $2,490 | ||
50ACS Combinatorial ScienceAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.95Q1 | —no 2022 value | 83 | — | $4,500 |
Subfields of Chemistry, compared.
- Organic Chemistry147
- Analytical Chemistry36
- Spectroscopy34
- Inorganic Chemistry16
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
37 additional Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 239
- Window papers (baseline)
- 229,202 -0.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.499 +15.0% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 25Comparison-group list (25)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 137 | 138 | 149 | 153 | 155 | 159 | 159 | 160 | 166 | 173 | 176 | 181 | 195 | 215 | 221 | 228 | 235 | 232 | 231 | 233 | 234 | 237 | 235 | 239 | 232 | 232 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 172,482 | 176,080 | 179,077 | 183,694 | 189,084 | 197,327 | 206,346 | 215,895 | 224,057 | 230,433 | 236,603 | 243,807 | 254,287 | 261,691 | 269,998 | 272,767 | 273,338 | 265,414 | 249,893 | 237,248 | 230,533 | 232,668 | 233,225 | 229,202 | 225,643 | 230,176 | |
| Median OJR | 0.620 | 0.638 | 0.61 | 0.60 | 0.66 | 0.6173 | 0.57 | 0.6170 | 0.654 | 0.618 | 0.635 | 0.622 | 0.649 | 0.544 | 0.541 | 0.56 | 0.505 | 0.49559 | 0.491 | 0.432 | 0.434 | 0.48 | 0.486 | 0.499 | 0.49563 | 0.509 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.3% | 197 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.568 per 1,000 | 177 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -11.4% | 212 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 41.5% | 232 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,610 | 141 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 228 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 232 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.51 | 232 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 35.7% | 232 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 44.6% | 231 journals |
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.