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Organic Chemistry journal rankings 2025

142 ranked journals · Subfield in Chemistry

Organic Chemistry has 142 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 0.79. The three highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society: each is likely ranked within the top 3.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 score is computed on.

142
61% of Chemistry
Median OJR

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.

0.51
This subfieldAll 0.78World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

29%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,700
Median positive listed APC: $3,700 among 79 journals. Another 2 list $0; 61 have no known price. All fields: $3,200.

Subfields of Chemistry (6)

142 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Organic Chemistry ranking, 2025

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different.

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.

OJR

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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025.

A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change.

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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #2 of 142Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States
4.38Q118.42 0.09 down from 202490430%$4,500
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #2 of 142Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
4.01Q117.08 1.65 up from 202480339%$12,690
Rank 3; likely between #3 and #3 of 142Journal of the American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society · United States
3.54Q117.79 0.71 up from 20249,18137%$4,500
Rank 4; likely between #4 and #6 of 142ChemElsevier BV · United States
3.03Q113.40 0.71 down from 202491143%$9,350
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #6 of 142Angewandte Chemie International EditionWiley · Germany
2.93Q115.69 0.22 up from 202412,93151%$5,510
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #8 of 142Nature SynthesisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.76Q112.65 1.27 up from 202466721%$12,690
Rank 7; likely between #6 and #8 of 142ACS CatalysisAmerican Chemical Society · United States
2.55Q114.31 0.28 up from 20244,43328%$4,500
Rank 8; likely between #5 and #14 of 142Topics in Current ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
2.23Q111.82 2.53 up from 202412621%$4,590
Rank 9; likely between #7 and #13 of 142Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.16Q122.93 3.59 down from 202431517%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 10; likely between #8 and #11 of 142Green ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
2.08Q111.01 1.24 up from 20242,64939%—
Rank 11; likely between #7 and #16 of 142Current Research in Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.96Q17.64 1.98 down from 2024175100%$2,500
Rank 12; likely between #10 and #14 of 142CCS ChemistryOAChinese Chemical Society · China
1.86Q18.81 0.28 down from 2024789100%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 13; likely between #11 and #15 of 142Chemical ScienceOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
1.81Q18.61 0.64 up from 20244,814100%—
Rank 14; likely between #9 and #17 of 142ACS Polymers AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States
1.73Q17.28 0.13 up from 2024112100%$3,500
Rank 15; likely between #13 and #17 of 142The Chemical RecordWiley · United States
1.63Q18.39 1.18 up from 202453937%$4,710
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #19 of 142European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ReportsOAElsevier BV · France
1.53Q15.90 1.97 up from 2024212100%$1,870
Rank 17; likely between #11 and #25 of 142Russian Chemical ReviewsOAInstitute of Physics · Russia
1.39Q17.33 1.37 up from 2024103100%—
Rank 18; likely between #16 and #21 of 142Results in ChemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.31Q16.25 1.44 up from 20241,689100%$1,870
Rank 19; likely between #16 and #23 of 142Journal of Saudi Chemical SocietyOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia
1.26Q15.60 0.83 down from 2024396100%$2,490
Rank 20; likely between #17 and #22 of 142Molecular DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.24Q14.32 0.32 up from 202471211%$4,290Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 21; likely between #16 and #28 of 142ACS Organic & Inorganic AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States
1.19Q15.71 1.15 up from 2024144100%$3,500
Rank 22; likely between #20 and #26 of 142ACS Macro LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States
1.10Q15.14 0.28 down from 202470924%$4,500Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 23; likely between #21 and #25 of 142Organic LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States
1.09Q14.97 0.46 down from 20245,44516%$4,500Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 24; likely between #21 and #26 of 142Organic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
1.09Q14.74 0.28 down from 20242,28924%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 25; likely between #25 and #29 of 142Journal of Molecular StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.97Q15.09 0.17 up from 20248,0209%$3,360Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 26; likely between #18 and #46 of 142Tetrahedron ChemOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.97Q14.06 0.58 up from 2024100100%$2,660
Rank 27; likely between #24 and #36 of 142Green Synthesis and CatalysisOAElsevier BV · China
0.93Q13.49 1.42 down from 2024225100%$0 listed
Rank 28; likely between #26 and #32 of 142Advanced Synthesis & CatalysisWiley · Germany
0.92Q13.76 0.49 down from 20241,68545%$4,650Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 29; likely between #25 and #33 of 142Chinese Journal of ChemistryWiley · Germany
0.92Q14.83 0.19 up from 20241,22237%$3,300
Rank 30; likely between #25 and #37 of 142Medicinal Chemistry ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.91Q13.56 0.36 up from 202452322%$3,990Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 31; likely between #28 and #36 of 142Polymer ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
0.87Q14.08 0.10 down from 20241,51255%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 32; likely between #29 and #35 of 142Chemical CommunicationsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
0.86Q14.50 0.04 down from 20247,57433%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 33; likely between #20 and #67 of 142ReactionsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
0.85Q14.61 2.03 up from 2024141100%$1,207
Rank 34; likely between #32 and #40 of 142Applied Organometallic ChemistryWiley · United Kingdom
0.80Q14.30 0.04 up from 20241,34730%$4,430
Rank 35; likely between #34 and #41 of 142The Journal of Organic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States
0.79Q13.45 0.40 down from 20245,11318%$4,500
Rank 36; likely between #27 and #54 of 142RSC MechanochemistryOARoyal Society of Chemistry
0.79Q13.64no 2024 value92100%——
Rank 37; likely between #27 and #63 of 142Tetrahedron Green ChemOAElsevier BV
0.76Q23.40 0.16 up from 202458100%$1,850
Rank 38; likely between #24 and #73 of 142OrganicsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
0.75Q23.19 1.40 up from 2024106100%$1,207
Rank 39; likely between #33 and #49 of 142Organic Process Research & DevelopmentAmerican Chemical Society · United States
0.75Q23.53 0.19 down from 202486022%$4,500
Rank 40; likely between #34 and #52 of 142Future Medicinal ChemistryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom
0.73Q23.03 0.24 up from 202444493%—
Rank 41; likely between #25 and #77 of 142AppliedChemOASwitzerland
0.73Q22.65 0.09 down from 202474100%$1,207
Rank 42; likely between #34 and #55 of 142Carbohydrate ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.71Q23.14 0.90 up from 202461520%$3,800
Rank 43; likely between #32 and #63 of 142Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
0.71Q22.22 0.59 down from 20242044%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 44; likely between #35 and #57 of 142Journal of Heterocyclic ChemistryWiley · United States
0.70Q23.00 0.52 up from 202446329%$3,400Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 45; likely between #38 and #53 of 142Polycyclic aromatic compoundsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands
0.70Q22.66 0.06 up from 20249592%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 46; likely between #40 and #49 of 142Chemistry - A European JournalWiley · Germany
0.69Q23.32 0.08 down from 20246,26864%$4,640Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 47; likely between #34 and #63 of 142ChemistryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
0.69Q22.57 0.01 up from 2024392100%$2,172
Rank 48; likely between #42 and #53 of 142Organic & Biomolecular ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
0.68Q22.91 0.10 down from 20243,10931%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 49; likely between #43 and #56 of 142European Journal of Organic ChemistryWiley · Germany
0.66Q22.66 0.04 down from 20242,15849%$4,330
Rank 50; likely between #38 and #63 of 142Bulletin of the Chemical Society of JapanOxford University Press · Japan
0.66Q24.01 0.16 up from 202453539%$2,040

The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated

Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

16 additional Organic Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
142
Window papers (baseline)
108,375 -1.8% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
0.509 +2.6% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
18

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals8584909094989899104106107112118131136140140145146152150151146147144142
Window papers (baseline)94,51096,35997,74199,911102,223105,643109,337113,552117,231119,740122,387125,371129,784132,620137,393139,961142,323138,875127,841117,699110,036110,502110,400108,772107,132108,375
Median OJR0.6120.6100.570.590.530.620.540.600.670.6140.63310.63270.660.580.5540.5500.5040.4870.4920.420.430.480.4960.520.5130.509

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.