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Highest-impact journals for Chemistry

The top Chemistry journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an 88,000-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    Chemical Reviews
    43.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of Science
  2. 2
    Chemical Society Reviews
    33.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Nature Catalysis
    22.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Progress in Polymer Science
    19.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
    17.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews
    16.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Nature Chemistry
    15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Accounts of Chemical Research
    15.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Journal of the American Chemical Society
    13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)
    12.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of Science
  11. 11
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition
    12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    ACS Catalysis
    11.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Nature Synthesis
    11.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
    11.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Chem
    9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica
    9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Peking University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
    8.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Aggregate
    8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
    7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    ACS Central Science
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Green Chemistry
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Natural Product Reports
    6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Chemical Physics Impact
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  24. 24
    Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Chemical Science
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Russian Chemical Reviews
    6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Physics
    ScopusWeb of Science
  27. 27
    Science China Chemistry
    6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    JACS Au
    6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
    5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Archives of Pharmacal Research
    5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    The Chemical Record
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Applied Spectroscopy Reviews
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    CCS Chemistry
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Chinese Chemical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  35. 35
    Analytical Chemistry
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Talanta
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of Science
  37. 37
    European Polymer Journal
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Journal of Molecular Liquids
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusPubMed
  39. 39
    Inorganic Chemistry Communications
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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