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Best Chemistry (all) journals

399 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Chemistry (all). All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 101 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Chemical Reviews 109.1 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Chemical Society Reviews 70.7 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Nature Reviews Chemistry 67.5 99th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Nature Materials 56.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Coordination Chemistry Reviews 39.9 98th Q1 SCIE – No
6 EnergyChem 38 98th Q1 ESCI – No
7 Nature Chemistry 31.5 98th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Accounts of Chemical Research 31.2 98th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Chem 30.4 97th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Advanced Functional Materials 28.7 97th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Catalysis Reviews - Science and Engineering 27.2 97th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Chinese Journal of Catalysis 26.6 97th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 25.7 96th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Polymer Reviews 25.7 96th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Food Hydrocolloids 25.2 96th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Nature Communications 24.3 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Journal of the American Chemical Society 22 95th Q1 SCIE – No
18 Carbon 21.5 95th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Chemosphere 21.1 95th Q1 – – No
20 Trends in Chemistry 21.1 95th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 20.9 94th Q1 SCIE – No
22 ACS Catalysis 20.4 94th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 20.1 94th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Chemical Engineering Journal 19.6 94th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Environmental Science and Technology 18.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
26 CCS Chemistry 18.7 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
27 Small 16.8 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
28 Chinese Chemical Letters 16.6 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
29 Corrosion Science 16.3 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
30 Desalination 16.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
31 ACS Central Science 14.9 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
32 Chemical Record 14.6 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
33 Materials Today Sustainability 14.6 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
34 Journal of Materials Chemistry A 14.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
35 npj 2D Materials and Applications 13.6 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
36 Journal of Rare Earths 13.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
37 Nano Letters 13.5 90th Q1 SCIE – No
38 Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 12.9 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
39 Small Methods 12.7 90th Q1 SCIE – No
40 Science China Chemistry 12.5 90th Q1 SCIE – No
41 Cell Reports Physical Science 12 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
42 Chemical Science 12 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
43 Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies 12 89th Q1 SCIE – No
44 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 12 89th Q1 SCIE – No
45 ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 12 88th Q1 SCIE – No
46 Adsorption Science and Technology 11.9 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
47 Chemistry of Materials 11.9 88th Q1 SCIE – No
48 Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 11.7 88th Q1 SCIE – No
49 Journal of Saudi Chemical Society 11.6 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
50 Combustion and Flame 11.4 87th Q1 SCIE – No
51 Polymers 11 87th Q1 SCIE – No
52 Surface and Coatings Technology 10.8 87th Q1 SCIE – No
53 Catalysis Today 10.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
54 ChemTexts 10.7 86th Q1 ESCI – No
55 International Journal of Photoenergy 10.6 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
56 Lab on a Chip 10.6 86th Q1 SCIE – No
57 Russian Chemical Reviews 10.5 85th Q1 SCIE – No
58 Frontiers in Chemistry 10.2 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
59 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews 10.2 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
60 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 10.2 85th Q1 SCIE – No
61 Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 10.1 84th Q1 SCIE – No
62 ChemPhysMater 10 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
63 Journal of Materials Chemistry B 10 84th Q1 SCIE – No
64 Minerals Engineering 9.6 84th Q1 SCIE – No
65 Giant 9.5 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
66 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 9.5 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
67 Applied Catalysis O: Open 9.3 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
68 Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 9.2 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
69 Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences 9.2 82nd Q1 – – Yes
70 Nanoscale Advances 9.2 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
71 Chinese Journal of Chemistry 9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
72 Food Additives and Contaminants - Part A 9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
73 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 8.8 81st Q1 SCIE – No
74 Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8.7 81st Q1 SCIE – No
75 RSC Advances 8.7 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
76 Reactive and Functional Polymers 8.6 81st Q1 SCIE – No
77 Intermetallics 8.5 80th Q1 SCIE – No
78 Polymer Bulletin 8.4 80th Q1 SCIE – No
79 Communications Chemistry 8.3 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
80 Diamond and Related Materials 8.2 80th Q1 SCIE – No
81 2D Materials 8 79th Q1 SCIE – No
82 ACS Applied Bio Materials 8 79th Q1 ESCI – No
83 Advances in Clinical Chemistry 8 79th Q1 – – No
84 Chemical Engineering Science 8 79th Q1 SCIE – No
85 Chemical Engineering Research and Design 8 78th Q1 SCIE – No
86 Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification 7.9 78th Q1 SCIE – No
87 Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics 7.9 78th Q1 SCIE – No
88 ACS Omega 7.8 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
89 Liquid Crystals Reviews 7.7 77th Q1 SCIE – No
90 Polymer Composites 7.7 77th Q1 SCIE – No
91 Journal of Cluster Science 7.6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
92 Packaging Technology and Science 7.6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
93 Journal of Food Processing and Preservation 7.5 76th Q1 SCIE – No
94 Journal of Luminescence 7.4 76th Q1 SCIE – No
95 Journal of Chemistry 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
96 Journal of Computational Chemistry 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE – No
97 KONA Powder and Particle Journal 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
98 Chemical Communications 7.2 75th Q1 SCIE – No
99 Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering 7.2 75th Q1 SCIE – No
100 Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology 7.2 75th Q1 SCIE – No
101 Results in Chemistry 7 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
102 Corrosion Reviews 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
103 European Food Research and Technology 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE – No
104 Nano Futures 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE – No
105 Topics in Catalysis 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE – No
106 Chemical Data Collections 6.8 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
107 Journal of Adhesion 6.8 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
108 Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 6.8 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
109 Journal of Taibah University for Science 6.8 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
110 Fire Safety Journal 6.8 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 6.7 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
112 Applied Organometallic Chemistry 6.6 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
113 BMC Chemistry 6.6 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
114 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 6.6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
115 Computational Materials Science 6.3 71st Q2 SCIE – No
116 Current Chemistry Letters 6.3 71st Q2 – – No
117 Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 6.2 71st Q2 SCIE – No
118 Journal of Cellular Plastics 6.2 70th Q2 SCIE – No
119 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
120 Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 5.9 70th Q2 SCIE – No
121 Journal of Coatings Technology and Research 5.9 70th Q2 SCIE – No
122 Nanotechnology 5.9 69th Q2 SCIE – No
123 Organic Electronics 5.9 69th Q2 SCIE – No
124 Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 5.9 69th Q2 SCIE – No
125 Designed Monomers and Polymers 5.8 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
126 Chemistry - A European Journal 5.8 68th Q2 SCIE – No
127 Chemical Research in Chinese Universities 5.7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
128 IUCrJ 5.7 68th Q2 SCIE – Yes
129 Journal of Proteome Research 5.7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
130 Polymer Engineering and Science 5.7 67th Q2 SCIE – No
131 Solid State Sciences 5.7 67th Q2 SCIE – No
132 Particle and Particle Systems Characterization 5.6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
133 Research on Chemical Intermediates 5.6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
134 Journal of Applied Polymer Science 5.6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
135 Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 5.6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
136 Crystal Growth and Design 5.5 66th Q2 SCIE – No
137 Fire and Materials 5.4 66th Q2 SCIE – No
138 Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 5.2 65th Q2 – – Yes
139 Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society 5.2 65th Q2 SCIE – No
140 Soft Matter 5.2 65th Q2 SCIE – No
141 Solid State Ionics 5.2 65th Q2 SCIE – No
142 Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 5.2 64th Q2 SCIE – No
143 Interface Science and Technology 5.2 64th Q2 – – No
144 ACS Chemical Health and Safety 5.1 64th Q2 ESCI – No
145 Moroccan Journal of Chemistry 5.1 64th Q2 ESCI – No
146 Chemical Papers 5 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
147 Journal of Analytical Science and Technology 5 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
148 Journal of Chemical Education 5 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
149 Match 5 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
150 Catalysis Letters 4.9 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
151 Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths 4.9 62nd Q2 – – No
152 Journal of Essential Oil Research 4.9 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
153 Separation Science and Technology 4.9 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
154 Israel Journal of Chemistry 4.9 61st Q2 SCIE – No
155 Journal of Nanoparticle Research 4.9 61st Q2 SCIE – No
156 New Journal of Chemistry 4.9 61st Q2 SCIE – No
157 Chemical Engineering Communications 4.8 61st Q2 SCIE – No
158 AAPP Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali 4.7 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
159 CrystEngComm 4.7 60th Q2 SCIE – No
160 Natural Sciences 4.7 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
161 Solid State Communications 4.7 60th Q2 SCIE – No
162 Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry 4.7 59th Q2 – – No
163 Chemistry - An Asian Journal 4.7 59th Q2 SCIE – No
164 Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society 4.6 59th Q2 SCIE – No
165 Marine Chemistry 4.6 59th Q2 SCIE – No
166 ChemPlusChem 4.6 58th Q2 SCIE – No
167 Heteroatom Chemistry 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
168 Open Chemistry 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
169 Fibers and Polymers 4.4 58th Q2 SCIE – No
170 Catalysis Surveys from Asia 4.4 57th Q2 SCIE – No
171 Color Research and Application 4.3 57th Q2 SCIE – No
172 Journal of Biophotonics 4.3 57th Q2 SCIE – No
173 Journal of Medicinal and Chemical Sciences 4.3 57th Q2 – – No
174 Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology 4.2 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
175 Liquid Crystals 4.2 56th Q2 SCIE – No
176 Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 4.2 56th Q2 SCIE – No
177 Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society 4.1 56th Q2 SCIE – No
178 Chemical Engineering and Technology 4.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
179 Molecular Simulation 4.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
180 Physical Sciences Reviews 4.1 55th Q2 – – No
181 Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 4.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
182 European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology 4.1 54th Q2 SCIE – No
183 ChemistryOpen 4 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
184 European Physical Journal E 4 54th Q2 SCIE – No
185 Flavour and Fragrance Journal 4 54th Q2 SCIE – No
186 Journal of Oleo Science 4 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
187 Adsorption 3.9 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
188 Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology 3.9 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
189 Surface and Interface Analysis 3.9 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
190 Combustion Science and Technology 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
191 Crystal Research and Technology 3.8 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
192 Crystallography Reviews 3.8 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
193 Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry 3.8 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
194 AWWA Water Science 3.7 51st Q2 ESCI – No
195 Chemistry and Biodiversity 3.7 51st Q2 SCIE – No
196 Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 3.7 51st Q2 SCIE – No
197 Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration 3.7 51st Q2 SCIE – No
198 Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 3.6 50th Q2 SCIE – No
199 Monatshefte fur Chemie 3.6 50th Q2 SCIE – No
200 Periodica Polytechnica Chemical Engineering 3.6 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
201 Pure and Applied Chemistry 3.6 50th Q2 SCIE – No
202 Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia 3.6 49th Q3 SCIE – Yes
203 CYTA - Journal of Food 3.6 49th Q3 SCIE – Yes
204 Petroleum Science and Technology 3.5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
205 Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange 3.5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
206 Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry 3.5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
207 Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry 3.5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
208 Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 3.5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
209 Chemie-Ingenieur-Technik 3.4 48th Q3 SCIE – No
210 Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 3.4 47th Q3 SCIE – No
211 Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 3.3 47th Q3 SCIE – No
212 Journal of Sulfur Chemistry 3.3 47th Q3 SCIE – No
213 Turkish Journal of Chemistry 3.3 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
214 Baghdad Science Journal 3.3 46th Q3 ESCI – Yes
215 Biointerphases 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
216 Journal of Chemical Sciences 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
217 Soft Materials 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
218 Acta Chimica Sinica 3.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
219 Combustion Theory and Modelling 3.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
220 Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences 3.2 45th Q3 – – Yes
221 Macromolecular Reaction Engineering 3.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
222 Main Group Metal Chemistry 3.2 44th Q3 SCIE – Yes
223 ChemistrySelect 3.1 44th Q3 SCIE – No
224 Journal of Integrated Science and Technology 3.1 44th Q3 – – No
225 Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3.1 44th Q3 SCIE – No
226 Advances in Chemical Engineering 3 43rd Q3 – – No
227 Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis 3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
228 Vietnam Journal of Chemistry 3 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
229 Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B: Physics 2.9 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
230 Acta Chromatographica 2.8 42nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
231 Egyptian Journal of Chemistry 2.8 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
232 Russian Chemical Bulletin 2.8 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
233 Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal 2.7 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
234 Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 2.7 41st Q3 SCIE – Yes
235 Mendeleev Communications 2.7 41st Q3 SCIE – No
236 Indonesian Journal of Chemistry 2.6 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
237 Iraqi Journal of Science 2.6 41st Q3 – – No
238 Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly 2.6 40th Q3 SCIE – Yes
239 Tenside, Surfactants, Detergents 2.6 40th Q3 SCIE – No
240 Corrosion 2.5 40th Q3 SCIE – No
241 Science and Technology Indonesia 2.5 40th Q3 – – Yes
242 Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin 2.4 39th Q3 SCIE – No
243 International Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2.4 39th Q3 – – No
244 Progress in Chemistry 2.4 39th Q3 SCIE – No
245 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy: Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 2.3 39th Q3 ESCI – No
246 Analytical Chemistry Letters 2.3 38th Q3 ESCI – No
247 Chemistry and Chemical Technology 2.3 38th Q3 – – No
248 Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society 2.3 38th Q3 SCIE – Yes
249 Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section A: Chemistry 2.3 38th Q3 – – Yes
250 Fuhe Cailiao Xuebao/Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica 2.3 37th Q3 – – No
251 ACS Symposium Series 2.2 37th Q3 – – No
252 Australian Journal of Chemistry 2.2 37th Q3 SCIE – No
253 Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 2.2 37th Q3 SCIE – No
254 Advances in Catalysis 2.2 36th Q3 – – No
255 Revista Materia 2.2 36th Q3 SCIE – Yes
256 Hanneng Cailiao/Chinese Journal of Energetic Materials 2.1 36th Q3 – – No
257 Journal of Chemical Research 2.1 36th Q3 SCIE – Yes
258 Acta Chimica Slovenica 2.1 35th Q3 SCIE – Yes
259 Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2.1 35th Q3 SCIE – No
260 Kinetics and Catalysis 2.1 35th Q3 SCIE – No
261 Next Sustainability 2.1 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
262 Acta Polymerica Sinica 2.1 34th Q3 SCIE – No
263 Chimia 2.1 34th Q3 SCIE – Yes
264 RSC Soft Matter 2.1 34th Q3 – – No
265 Iranian Journal of Science 2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
266 Comptes Rendus Chimie 1.9 33rd Q3 SCIE – Yes
267 Oilfield Chemistry 1.9 33rd Q3 – – No
268 Petroleum Chemistry 1.9 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
269 Chimica Techno Acta 1.9 32nd Q3 – – Yes
270 Chemical Problems 1.8 32nd Q3 – – No
271 Iranian Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 1.8 32nd Q3 ESCI – No
272 South African Journal of Chemistry 1.8 32nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
273 ChemChemTech 1.8 31st Q3 ESCI – No
274 Chemistry Letters 1.8 31st Q3 SCIE – No
275 Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan 1.8 31st Q3 SCIE – Yes
276 Polyolefins Journal 1.7 31st Q3 – – Yes
277 El-Cezeri Journal of Science and Engineering 1.7 30th Q3 – – No
278 Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 1.7 30th Q3 SCIE – No
279 Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society 1.7 30th Q3 SCIE – No
280 Polymer Science - Series C 1.7 30th Q3 SCIE – No
281 Indian Journal of Chemical Technology 1.7 29th Q3 SCIE – Yes
282 Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences 1.7 29th Q3 ESCI – No
283 Doklady Chemistry 1.6 29th Q3 SCIE – No
284 Journal of Chemical Crystallography 1.6 29th Q3 SCIE – No
285 Russian Journal of Coordination Chemistry/Koordinatsionnaya Khimiya 1.6 29th Q3 SCIE – No
286 Accreditation and Quality Assurance 1.6 28th Q3 SCIE – No
287 Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 1.6 28th Q3 SCIE – No
288 Oxidation Communications 1.6 28th Q3 – – No
289 Acta Scientiarum - Technology 1.6 27th Q3 SCIE – Yes
290 Data Handling in Science and Technology 1.6 27th Q3 – – No
291 Mongolian Journal of Chemistry 1.6 27th Q3 – – Yes
292 Russian Journal of General Chemistry 1.6 27th Q3 SCIE – No
293 Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 1.5 26th Q3 SCIE – Yes
294 Makara Journal of Science 1.5 26th Q3 ESCI – Yes
295 Rasayan Journal of Chemistry 1.5 26th Q3 – – No
296 Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section B Journal of Chemical Sciences 1.5 26th Q3 SCIE – No
297 Huagong Xuebao/CIESC Journal 1.5 25th Q3 – – No
298 Uniciencia 1.5 25th Q3 ESCI – Yes
299 Chemistry of Natural Compounds 1.4 25th Q3 SCIE – No
300 Ecletica Quimica 1.4 25th Q3 – – Yes

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