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Best Chemical Engineering (all) journals

265 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Chemical Engineering (all). The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 68 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 Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 87.5 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Nature Reviews Chemistry 67.5 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Nature Chemistry 31.5 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 Chem 30.4 98th Q1 SCIE No
5 Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences 26 98th Q1 SCIE No
6 Food Hydrocolloids 25.2 97th Q1 SCIE No
7 Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 20.9 97th Q1 SCIE No
8 Food Reviews International 20.6 97th Q1 SCIE No
9 Chemical Engineering Journal 19.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
10 Engineering 19.4 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
11 Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology 18.6 96th Q1 No
12 Advanced Science 18.1 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
13 Fuel Processing Technology 17.5 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
14 Fuel 16.4 95th Q1 SCIE No
15 Corrosion Science 16.3 94th Q1 SCIE No
16 Desalination 16.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
17 ACS Central Science 14.9 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
18 Reviews in Chemical Engineering 14.8 93th Q1 SCIE No
19 Chemical Record 14.6 93th Q1 SCIE No
20 Progress in Organic Coatings 13.5 92th Q1 SCIE No
21 ACS Materials Letters 13.3 92th Q1 SCIE No
22 Gas Science and Engineering 13.2 92th Q1 SCIE No
23 Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 12.9 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
24 Process Safety and Environmental Protection 12.8 91th Q1 SCIE No
25 ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 12 90th Q1 SCIE No
26 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 12 90th Q1 SCIE No
27 Chemistry of Materials 11.9 90th Q1 SCIE No
28 Adsorption Science and Technology 11.9 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
29 Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 11.7 89th Q1 SCIE No
30 Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering 11.6 89th Q1 Yes
31 Combustion and Flame 11.4 88th Q1 SCIE No
32 Shiyou Xuebao/Acta Petrolei Sinica 11.2 88th Q1 No
33 Nanomaterials 10.3 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE No
35 Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences 10.2 87th Q1 Yes
36 Electrochimica Acta 9.5 86th Q1 SCIE No
37 ChemSusChem 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE No
38 Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 9.2 86th Q1 SCIE No
39 Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 9.2 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
40 Powder Technology 9.2 85th Q1 SCIE No
41 Energy and Fuels 9.1 85th Q1 SCIE No
42 Particuology 8.9 84th Q1 SCIE No
43 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 8.8 84th Q1 SCIE No
44 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 8.8 83th Q1 SCIE No
45 Computers and Chemical Engineering 8.7 83th Q1 SCIE No
46 RSC Advances 8.7 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
47 Reactive and Functional Polymers 8.6 82th Q1 SCIE No
48 Advanced Powder Technology 8.5 82th Q1 SCIE No
49 Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 8.4 82th Q1 SCIE No
50 Dyes and Pigments 8.3 81th Q1 SCIE No
51 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 8.3 81th Q1 SCIE No
52 Journal of Supercritical Fluids 8.1 80th Q1 SCIE No
53 Chemical Engineering Science 8 80th Q1 SCIE No
54 Education for Chemical Engineers 8 80th Q1 SCIE No
55 Chemical Engineering Research and Design 8 79th Q1 SCIE No
56 Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE No
57 ENGINEERING Chemical Engineering 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE No
58 AIChE Journal 7.9 78th Q1 SCIE No
59 International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials 7.9 78th Q1 SCIE No
60 ACS Omega 7.8 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
61 Journal of Food Processing and Preservation 7.5 77th Q1 SCIE No
62 International Journal of Chemical Engineering 7.4 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
63 KONA Powder and Particle Journal 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
64 Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering 7.2 76th Q1 SCIE No
65 Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology 7.2 76th Q1 SCIE No
66 Drying Technology 7.1 75th Q1 SCIE No
67 Green Processing and Synthesis 7.1 75th Q1 SCIE Yes
68 Chinese Journal of Polymer Science (English Edition) 7 75th Q1 SCIE No
69 E-Polymers 7 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
70 Corrosion Reviews 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE No
71 Cogent Engineering 6.9 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
72 Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 6.9 73th Q2 SCIE No
73 International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives 6.8 73th Q2 SCIE No
74 Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 6.8 72th Q2 SCIE No
75 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 6.6 72th Q2 SCIE No
76 Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 6.6 72th Q2 SCIE No
77 Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials 6.6 71th Q2 SCIE No
78 Textile Progress 6.6 71th Q2 ESCI No
79 Journal of Food Process Engineering 6.4 70th Q2 SCIE No
80 Food Science and Technology International 6.3 70th Q2 SCIE No
81 International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 6.2 70th Q2 SCIE No
82 Advances in Polymer Technology 6.2 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
83 Food and Bioproducts Processing 6.1 69th Q2 SCIE No
84 Transport in Porous Media 6 69th Q2 SCIE No
85 ChemEngineering 6 68th Q2 ESCI Yes
86 Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization 6 68th Q2 SCIE No
87 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 6 67th Q2 SCIE No
88 Chem and Bio Engineering 5.9 67th Q2 ESCI Yes
89 Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE No
90 Macromolecular Research 5.9 66th Q2 SCIE No
91 Designed Monomers and Polymers 5.8 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
92 Fluid Phase Equilibria 5.7 66th Q2 SCIE No
93 Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 5.6 65th Q2 SCIE No
94 International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 5.5 65th Q2 SCIE No
95 Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability 5.5 65th Q2 ESCI No
96 Crystals 5.4 64th Q2 SCIE Yes
97 Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 5.4 64th Q2 ESCI No
98 Iranian Polymer Journal (English Edition) 5.4 63th Q2 SCIE No
99 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5.4 63th Q2 SCIE Yes
100 Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 5.2 63th Q2 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Chemical Engineering (all) 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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