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.
- 1Chemical Reviews43.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 2Chemical Society Reviews33.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 3Advances in Colloid and Interface Science17.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4Nature Chemistry15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Accounts of Chemical Research15.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 6Journal of the American Chemical Society13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 7Angewandte Chemie International Edition12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 8ACS Catalysis11.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 9Nature Synthesis11.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 10Chem9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 11Green Chemistry7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 12Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 13Chemical Science6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 14Russian Chemical Reviews6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of PhysicsScopusWeb of Science
- 15Journal of Medicinal Chemistry5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 16The Chemical Record5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 17Journal of Molecular Liquids5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusPubMed
- 18European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 19Chinese Chemical Letters4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 20Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 21Molecules4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 22ACS Macro Letters4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 23Organic Chemistry Frontiers3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24Organic Letters3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25Langmuir3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Bioorganic Chemistry3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27Chinese Journal of Chemistry3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 28Chemical Communications3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 29Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of Science
- 31RSC Medicinal Chemistry3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 32Macromolecular Rapid Communications3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 33Chemistry - A European Journal3.1 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 34Organic Process Research & Development2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 35Polymer Chemistry2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Institute of PhysicsScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 37Journal of Saudi Chemical Society5.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 38BMC Chemistry4.6 cites/paper · Q2 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 39Journal of Molecular Structure4.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 40Results in Chemistry4.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb 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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