Question 1

What are the best journals for Organic Chemistry?

Accepted Answer

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Organic Chemistry journals include Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry. The top 40 of 209 ranked venues are listed on this page; 36 are Scimago Q1 and 4 Q2. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

Question 2

How were these Organic Chemistry journals ranked?

Accepted Answer

Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under Organic Chemistry ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when Organic Chemistry is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). 15 journals OpenAlex files under Organic Chemistry are left out because OpenAlex's main field for them and Scimago's categories both place them in another discipline. By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under Organic Chemistry come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Organic Chemistry come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Organic Chemistry — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Organic Chemistry — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (1 of the 209 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Question 3

Why don't all Organic Chemistry journals show a quartile?

Accepted Answer

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

Question 4

How do I find the best journal for my specific Organic Chemistry paper?

Accepted Answer

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

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