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Best Catalysis journals

74 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Catalysis. The top 74 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 19 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Catalysis 62.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Advanced Powder Materials 46.4 97th Q1 ESCI – Yes
3 Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 38.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews 28.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Catalysis Reviews - Science and Engineering 27.2 93th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Chinese Journal of Catalysis 26.6 92th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 25.7 91th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Journal of the American Chemical Society 22 89th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry 21.7 88th Q1 SCIE – No
10 ACS Catalysis 20.4 87th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Green Chemical Engineering 18.5 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
12 Carbon Resources Conversion 14.5 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
13 Materials Today Chemistry 11.9 83th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Materials Today Catalysis 10.8 81th Q1 ESCI – Yes
15 Green Synthesis and Catalysis 10.7 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 Catalysis Today 10.7 79th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Journal of Catalysis 10.4 77th Q1 SCIE – No
18 South African Journal of Chemical Engineering 10.4 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences 10.2 75th Q1 – – Yes
20 Small Science 10.1 73th Q2 ESCI – Yes
21 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 10 72th Q2 SCIE – Yes
22 EES Catalysis 9.6 70th Q2 ESCI – Yes
23 Applied Catalysis O: Open 9.3 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
24 Journal of Applied Organometallic Chemistry 9.1 68th Q2 – – No
25 Catalysts 8.3 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
26 Applied Catalysis A: General 8.3 65th Q2 SCIE – No
27 Molecular Diversity 7.9 64th Q2 SCIE – No
28 Molecular Catalysis 7.9 62th Q2 SCIE – No
29 Catalysis Science and Technology 7.6 61th Q2 SCIE – No
30 Chemical Communications 7.2 60th Q2 SCIE – No
31 ChemElectroChem 7.1 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
32 Topics in Catalysis 6.9 57th Q2 SCIE – No
33 Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 6.9 56th Q2 SCIE – No
34 Frontiers in Chemical Engineering 6.7 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
35 Transport in Porous Media 6 53th Q2 SCIE – No
36 Chirality 5.9 52th Q2 SCIE – No
37 Chemistry - A European Journal 5.8 50th Q2 SCIE – No
38 Reaction Chemistry and Engineering 5.7 49th Q3 SCIE – No
39 ChemCatChem 5.7 47th Q3 SCIE – No
40 Advances in Nano Research 5.7 46th Q3 SCIE – No
41 Fuels 5.1 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
42 Egyptian Journal of Petroleum 5 43th Q3 – – Yes
43 Catalysis Letters 4.9 42th Q3 SCIE – No
44 New Journal of Chemistry 4.9 41th Q3 SCIE – No
45 Journal of Molecular Modeling 4.6 39th Q3 SCIE – No
46 Catalysis Surveys from Asia 4.4 38th Q3 SCIE – No
47 ChemSystemsChem 4.3 37th Q3 ESCI – No
48 Synthesis (Germany) 4.3 35th Q3 SCIE – No
49 Chemistry-Methods 4.2 34th Q3 ESCI – No
50 Chemistry Africa 4.1 33th Q3 ESCI – No
51 SynOpen 4 31th Q3 ESCI – Yes
52 Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 3.5 30th Q3 SCIE – No
53 Carbon Future 3.4 29th Q3 – – Yes
54 Iranian Journal of Catalysis 3.4 27th Q3 ESCI – No
55 Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis 3.4 26th Q3 SCIE – No
56 Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis 3 25th Q3 ESCI – Yes
57 Helvetica Chimica Acta 2.9 23th Q4 SCIE – No
58 Advances in Catalysis 2.2 22th Q4 – – No
59 Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2.1 20th Q4 SCIE – No
60 Kinetics and Catalysis 2.1 20th Q4 SCIE – No
61 Journal of Molecular Catalysis(China) 2.1 18th Q4 – – No
62 Current Organocatalysis 2.1 16th Q4 ESCI – No
63 Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering 1.9 15th Q4 – – Yes
64 Polyolefins Journal 1.7 14th Q4 – – Yes
65 Catalysis in Industry 1.6 12th Q4 ESCI – No
66 Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials 1.4 11th Q4 – – No
67 Topics in Organometallic Chemistry 1.1 10th Q4 – – No
68 Applied Chemistry Today 1 8th Q4 – – Yes
69 Chemical Industry and Engineering 0.8 7th Q4 – – No
70 Catalysis 0.7 6th Q4 – – No
71 RSC Catalysis Series 0.7 4th Q4 – – No
72 Jingxi Huagong/Fine Chemicals 0.6 3th Q4 – – No
73 Proceedings of the World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer 0.2 2th Q4 – – No
74 Journal of the Society of Powder Technology, Japan 0.2 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Catalysis Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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