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Best Chemistry (all) journals
401 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Chemistry (all). The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 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 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 26 | CCS Chemistry | 18.7 | 93th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 27 | Small | 16.8 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 28 | Chinese Chemical Letters | 16.6 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 29 | Corrosion Science | 16.3 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 30 | Desalination | 16.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 31 | ACS Central Science | 14.9 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 32 | Chemical Record | 14.6 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 33 | Materials Today Sustainability | 14.6 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 34 | Journal of Materials Chemistry A | 14.5 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 35 | npj 2D Materials and Applications | 13.6 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 36 | Journal of Rare Earths | 13.5 | 91th | 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 | 83th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 66 | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 9.5 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 67 | Applied Catalysis O: Open | 9.3 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 68 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry | 9.2 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 69 | Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences | 9.2 | 82th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 70 | Nanoscale Advances | 9.2 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 71 | Chinese Journal of Chemistry | 9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 72 | Food Additives and Contaminants - Part A | 9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 73 | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | 8.8 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 74 | Journal of Materials Chemistry C | 8.7 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 75 | RSC Advances | 8.7 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 76 | Reactive and Functional Polymers | 8.6 | 81th | 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 |
Rank and percentile are within the Chemistry (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.