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Best Inorganic Chemistry journals

85 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Inorganic Chemistry. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 22 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 Coordination Chemistry Reviews 39.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Nature Synthesis 24.7 98th Q1 ESCI – No
3 Polyoxometalates 17.6 97th Q1 ESCI – Yes
4 Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 16.9 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
5 Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications 15.4 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
6 Acta Materia Medica 11.4 93rd Q1 – – Yes
7 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 10.8 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
8 Carbon Letters 10.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
9 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 10 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 Biological Trace Element Research 9.3 88th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Reviews in Inorganic Chemistry 9.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Macromolecules 8.8 86th Q1 SCIE – No
13 ACS Macro Letters 8.8 85th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Inorganic Chemistry Communications 8.5 84th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Journal of Molecular Structure 8.4 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
16 Molecular Diversity 7.9 81st Q1 SCIE – No
17 Optical Materials 7.9 80th Q1 SCIE – No
18 ACS Organic and Inorganic Au 7.8 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Inorganic Chemistry 7.5 78th Q1 SCIE – No
20 BioMetals 7.4 77th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Journal of Solid State Chemistry 7.2 76th Q1 SCIE – No
22 Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 6.8 75th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 6.7 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
24 Applied Organometallic Chemistry 6.6 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
25 Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 6.6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
26 Comments on Inorganic Chemistry 6.5 70th Q2 SCIE – No
27 Inorganica Chimica Acta 6 69th Q2 SCIE – No
28 Optical Materials: X 6 68th Q2 – – Yes
29 Dalton Transactions 6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
30 Journal of the Indian Chemical Society 5.8 65th Q2 SCIE – No
31 ChemCatChem 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
32 Crystals 5.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
33 Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 5.4 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
34 Inorganics 5.3 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
35 Polyhedron 5 59th Q2 SCIE – No
36 High Entropy Alloys and Materials 4.7 58th Q2 – – No
37 Inorganic and Nano-Metal Chemistry 4.7 57th Q2 SCIE – No
38 Chemical Review and Letters 4.6 56th Q2 – – Yes
39 Organometallics 4.6 55th Q2 SCIE – No
40 Journal of Molecular Modeling 4.6 54th Q2 SCIE – No
41 Chemistry (Switzerland) 4.4 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
42 Journal of Crystal Growth 4.4 51st Q2 SCIE – No
43 Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 4.3 50th Q2 SCIE – No
44 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials 4.2 49th Q3 SCIE – No
45 Journal of Chemistry Letters 3.9 48th Q3 – – Yes
46 Food Science and Applied Biotechnology 3.7 47th Q3 – – No
47 High Temperature Corrosion of Materials 3.7 45th Q3 SCIE – No
48 Advances in Inorganic Chemistry 3.4 43rd Q3 – – No
49 Iranian Journal of Catalysis 3.4 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
50 Current Green Chemistry 3.3 41st Q3 ESCI – No
51 International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 3.2 40th Q3 SCIE – No
52 Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 3.1 38th Q3 SCIE – No
53 European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 3.1 37th Q3 SCIE – No
54 Main Group Chemistry 3 36th Q3 SCIE – No
55 Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 3 35th Q3 SCIE – No
56 Wuji Cailiao Xuebao/Journal of Inorganic Materials 3 34th Q3 SCIE – No
57 Helvetica Chimica Acta 2.9 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
58 RSC Mechanochemistry 2.8 31st Q3 ESCI – Yes
59 Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements 2.7 30th Q3 SCIE – No
60 Transition Metal Chemistry 2.7 29th Q3 SCIE – No
61 Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2.6 28th Q3 SCIE – No
62 Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances 2.4 27th Q3 SCIE – No
63 New Materials, Compounds and Applications 2.4 26th Q3 ESCI – No
64 Journal of Superhard Materials 2.4 25th Q3 SCIE – No
65 Journal of Structural Chemistry 2.3 23rd Q4 SCIE – No
66 Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 2.3 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
67 Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie 2.3 21st Q4 SCIE – No
68 Journal of Elementology 1.9 20th Q4 SCIE – No
69 Kuei Suan Jen Hsueh Pao/Journal of the Chinese Ceramic Society 1.8 19th Q4 – – No
70 Acta crystallographica. Section C, Structural chemistry 1.6 18th Q4 SCIE – No
71 Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 1.6 16th Q4 SCIE – No
72 Tonkie Khimicheskie Tekhnologii 1.5 15th Q4 – – Yes
73 Inorganic Materials 1.3 14th Q4 SCIE – No
74 Condensed Matter and Interphases 1.2 13th Q4 – – Yes
75 Topics in Organometallic Chemistry 1.1 12th Q4 – – No
76 Jurnal Kimia Valensi 1.1 11th Q4 – – Yes
77 Indian Journal of Chemistry (IJC) 1.1 9th Q4 – – Yes
78 Applied Chemistry Today 1 8th Q4 – – Yes
79 IUCrData 0.7 7th Q4 – – Yes
80 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie - New Crystal Structures 0.7 6th Q4 SCIE – Yes
81 Liquid Crystals Today 0.5 5th Q4 ESCI – No
82 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Chemical Series 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
83 Journal of Molecular Science 0.4 2nd Q4 – – No
84 Organometallic Chemistry 0.2 1st Q4 – – No
85 Structure and Bonding 0.2 1st Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Inorganic Chemistry Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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