Organic Chemistry · 98 journals indexed

Highest-impact journals for Organic Chemistry

The top Organic Chemistry journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-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.

  1. 1
    Chemical Reviews
    43.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  2. 2
    Chemical Society Reviews
    33.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  3. 3
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
    17.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  4. 4
    Nature Chemistry
    15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  5. 5
    Accounts of Chemical Research
    15.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  6. 6
    Journal of the American Chemical Society
    13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  7. 7
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition
    12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  8. 8
    ACS Catalysis
    11.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  9. 9
    Nature Synthesis
    11.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  10. 10
    Chem
    9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  11. 11
    Green Chemistry
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  12. 12
    Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  13. 13
    Chemical Science
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  14. 14
    Russian Chemical Reviews
    6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Physics
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  15. 15
    Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
    5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  16. 16
    The Chemical Record
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  17. 17
    Journal of Molecular Liquids
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  18. 18
    European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  19. 19
    Chinese Chemical Letters
    4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  20. 20
    Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  21. 21
    Molecules
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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  22. 22
    ACS Macro Letters
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  23. 23
    Organic Chemistry Frontiers
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  24. 24
    Organic Letters
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  25. 25
    Langmuir
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  26. 26
    Bioorganic Chemistry
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  27. 27
    Chinese Journal of Chemistry
    3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  28. 28
    Chemical Communications
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  29. 29
    Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  30. 30
    Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  31. 31
    RSC Medicinal Chemistry
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  32. 32
    Macromolecular Rapid Communications
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  33. 33
    Chemistry - A European Journal
    3.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  34. 34
    Organic Process Research & Development
    2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  35. 35
    Polymer Chemistry
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  36. 36
    Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
    2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Institute of Physics
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  37. 37
    Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
    5.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
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  38. 38
    BMC Chemistry
    4.6 cites/paper · Q2 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Journal of Molecular Structure
    4.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
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  40. 40
    Results in Chemistry
    4.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
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“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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