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Best Spectroscopy journals

81 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Spectroscopy. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 20 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 TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry 22.7 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Mass Spectrometry Reviews 21.2 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 15.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 15.2 95th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 14.9 94th Q1 SCIE – No
6 ACS Measurement Science Au 14.6 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
7 Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 12 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Journal of Analysis and Testing 11.9 90th Q1 ESCI – No
9 Analytica Chimica Acta 10.9 89th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Journal of Molecular Liquids 10.3 88th Q1 – – No
11 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 10 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 9 85th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Journal of Molecular Structure 8.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Optical Materials 7.9 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
15 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 7.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
16 Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 6.5 80th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy 6.4 79th Q1 SCIE – No
18 Microchemical Journal 6.4 78th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab 6.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
20 Analyst 6.3 75th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Journal of Cultural Heritage 6.2 74th Q2 AHCI, SCIE – No
22 Vibrational Spectroscopy 6.2 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
23 Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 6.1 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
24 Optical Materials: X 6 70th Q2 – – Yes
25 Langmuir 6 69th Q2 SCIE – No
26 Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 6 68th Q2 SCIE – No
27 Chirality 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
28 npj Heritage Science 5.8 66th Q2 AHCI, SCIE – No
29 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 5.6 64th Q2 SCIE – No
30 Drug Testing and Analysis 5.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
31 Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 5.4 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
32 Analysis and Sensing 5.3 61st Q2 ESCI – No
33 Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry 5.3 59th Q2 ESCI – Yes
34 NMR in Biomedicine 5.1 58th Q2 SCIE – No
35 Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 4.9 57th Q2 SCIE – No
36 Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy 4.8 56th Q2 SCIE – No
37 Journal of Fluorescence 4.6 54th Q2 SCIE – No
38 Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 4.6 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
39 Forensic Chemistry 4.5 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
40 Applied Spectroscopy 4.4 51st Q2 SCIE – No
41 Journal of Spectroscopy 4.3 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
42 Frontiers in Analytical Science 4.3 48th Q3 ESCI – Yes
43 Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open 4.2 47th Q3 ESCI – Yes
44 Chemistry-Methods 4.2 46th Q3 ESCI – Yes
45 Atomic Spectroscopy 4.1 45th Q3 SCIE – No
46 Analytical Letters 4 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
47 ACS Applied Optical Materials 3.9 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
48 International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 3.8 41st Q3 SCIE – No
49 Journal of Biomolecular NMR 3.7 40th Q3 SCIE – No
50 Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 3.6 38th Q3 SCIE – No
51 Structural Dynamics 3.5 37th Q3 SCIE – Yes
52 Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 3.2 36th Q3 SCIE – No
53 Colorants 3.1 35th Q3 – – Yes
54 X-Ray Spectrometry 3.1 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
55 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Research 3.1 32nd Q3 ESCI – No
56 Journal of Mass Spectrometry 3 31st Q3 SCIE – No
57 Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry 2.9 30th Q3 – – No
58 Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 2.8 29th Q3 SCIE – No
59 Analytical Methods in Environmental Chemistry Journal 2.7 27th Q3 – – No
60 Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 2.7 26th Q3 SCIE – No
61 Spectroscopy Letters 2.4 25th Q3 SCIE – No
62 Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) 2.3 24th Q4 SCIE – No
63 Journal of Chemical Metrology 2.3 22nd Q4 ESCI – No
64 Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 2.1 21st Q4 – – No
65 Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals 1.9 20th Q4 SCIE – No
66 Guang Pu Xue Yu Guang Pu Fen Xi/Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis 1.8 19th Q4 SCIE – No
67 Mass Spectrometry 1.8 17th Q4 – – Yes
68 European Journal of Mass Spectrometry 1.8 16th Q4 SCIE – No
69 Journal of Applied Spectroscopy 1.4 15th Q4 SCIE – No
70 Journal of Instrumental Analysis 1.3 14th Q4 – – No
71 High Temperature Material Processes 1.2 12th Q4 ESCI – No
72 Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research 1.1 11th Q4 SCIE – Yes
73 Mass Spectrometry Letters 1 10th Q4 ESCI – Yes
74 Magnetic Resonance in Solids 0.6 9th Q4 ESCI – Yes
75 Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 0.3 8th Q4 – – No
76 New Developments in Mass Spectrometry 0.3 6th Q4 – – No
77 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 0.2 5th Q4 – – No
78 Structure and Bonding 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
79 Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings 0.2 3rd Q4 – – No
80 Advances in Isotope Geochemistry 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
81 Latin American Electron Devices Conference, LAEDC 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Spectroscopy 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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