Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2024
144 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry
Organic Chemistry has 144 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 0.80. The top three are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
144 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.27Q1 | 18.51 0.27 up from 2023 | 982 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
2Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 15.43 0.45 up from 2023 | 743 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
3Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.62Q1 | 17.08 1.38 up from 2023 | 7,907 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
4Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany | 3.21Q1 | 15.47 0.90 up from 2023 | 11,195 | 58% | $5,510 | ||
5ChemElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 14.11 2.19 up from 2023 | 851 | 98% | $9,350 | ||
6Nature SynthesisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 11.38 1.91 up from 2023 | 427 | 22% | $12,690 | ||
7ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.55Q1 | 14.04 1.44 up from 2023 | 4,150 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
8Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 26.52 4.20 up from 2023 | 307 | 24% | — | ||
9Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 9.77 0.30 up from 2023 | 2,601 | 47% | — | ||
10CCS ChemistryOAChinese Chemical Society · China | 1.96Q1 | 9.09 0.77 up from 2023 | 802 | 100% | — | ||
11Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.91Q1 | 9.29 2.04 up from 2023 | 135 | 12% | $4,590 | ||
12Current Research in Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 9.62 2.24 up from 2023 | 326 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
13Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 7.97 0.10 up from 2023 | 4,425 | 100% | — | ||
14The Chemical RecordWiley · United States | 1.66Q1 | 7.20 0.17 up from 2023 | 666 | 35% | $4,710 | ||
15Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia | 1.63Q1 | 5.97 2.25 down from 2023 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.53Q1 | 6.43 0.43 down from 2023 | 399 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
17Pure and Applied ChemistryInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry · Germany | 1.49Q1 | 3.27 0.81 up from 2023 | 283 | 18% | $2,712 | ||
18ACS Polymers AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.47Q1 | 7.14 2.17 up from 2023 | 103 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
19Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 4.00 0.74 down from 2023 | 600 | 10% | $4,290 | ||
20Green Synthesis and CatalysisOAElsevier BV · China | 1.38Q1 | 4.91 1.48 down from 2023 | 206 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
21Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.28Q1 | 5.42 0.05 up from 2023 | 5,256 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
22Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 5.02 0.18 up from 2023 | 2,219 | 23% | — | ||
23ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.18Q1 | 5.42 0.09 up from 2023 | 691 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
24Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 4.26 0.39 down from 2023 | 1,547 | 47% | $4,650 | ||
25Results in ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q1 | 4.81 1.88 up from 2023 | 1,183 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
26ACS Organic & Inorganic AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.10Q1 | 4.57 0.49 up from 2023 | 122 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
27European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ReportsOAElsevier BV · France | 1.07Q1 | 3.93 0.01 up from 2023 | 118 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
28Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q1 | 4.93 0.60 up from 2023 | 6,757 | 11% | $3,360 | ||
29Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 4.53 0.07 down from 2023 | 7,575 | 41% | — | ||
30Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.94Q1 | 4.64 0.01 up from 2023 | 1,240 | 43% | $3,300 | ||
31Medicinal Chemistry ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.91Q1 | 3.20 0.35 up from 2023 | 497 | 29% | $3,990 | ||
32Tetrahedron ChemOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 3.47 0.09 down from 2023 | 57 | 100% | $2,660 | ||
33Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.90Q1 | 4.18 0.17 down from 2023 | 1,667 | 58% | — | ||
34The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.90Q1 | 3.84 0.15 up from 2023 | 4,850 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
35Tetrahedron Green ChemOAElsevier BV | 0.82Q1 | 3.24 0.24 up from 2023 | 33 | 100% | $1,850 | ||
36Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q1 | 4.26 0.59 up from 2023 | 1,170 | 40% | $4,430 | ||
37Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 2.79 0.17 up from 2023 | 420 | 86% | — | ||
38Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 3.01 0.11 down from 2023 | 3,139 | 33% | — | ||
39Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan | 0.76Q2 | 3.85 0.70 up from 2023 | 622 | 47% | $2,040 | ||
40Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 3.40 0.08 down from 2023 | 5,850 | 64% | $4,640 | ||
41Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.73Q2 | 3.71 0.36 up from 2023 | 787 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
42Chemistry - An Asian JournalWiley · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 3.29 0.28 down from 2023 | 1,540 | 42% | $4,520 | ||
43Polycyclic aromatic compoundsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.71Q2 | 2.59 0.27 up from 2023 | 1,230 | 8% | — | ||
44Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.69Q2 | 2.82 0.91 up from 2023 | 180 | 11% | — | ||
45Asian Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 2.61 0.12 down from 2023 | 1,110 | 36% | $4,030 | ||
46Journal of Heterocyclic ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.67Q2 | 2.47 0.09 up from 2023 | 508 | 43% | $3,400 | ||
47OrganometallicsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.67Q2 | 3.03 0.30 up from 2023 | 1,183 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
48ChemistryOpenOAWileyOpen · Germany | 0.66Q2 | 3.05 0.53 up from 2023 | 377 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
49AppliedChemOASwitzerland | 0.65Q2 | 2.74 0.52 up from 2023 | 63 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
50European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany | 0.65Q2 | 2.70 0.20 up from 2023 | 2,154 | 51% | $4,330 |
Subfields of Chemistry, with Organic Chemistry highlighted.
- Organic Chemistry144
- Analytical Chemistry34
- Spectroscopy33
- Inorganic Chemistry15
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5
- Electrochemistry1
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Organic Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 144
- Window papers (baseline)
- 107,132 -3.0% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.513 +7.1% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.