Scopus subject area
Best Organic Chemistry journals
215 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Organic Chemistry. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 54 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 Polymer Science | 46.6 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 2 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews | 28.6 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 3 | Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts | 26.1 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 4 | Nature Synthesis | 24.7 | 98th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 5 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 23.1 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 6 | Natural Product Reports | 21.2 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 7 | Redox Biology | 20.8 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 8 | Chem Catalysis | 19.6 | 96th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 9 | Ultrasonics Sonochemistry | 16.9 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 10 | Fuel | 16.4 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 11 | Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications | 15.4 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 12 | Archives of Pharmacal Research | 13.6 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 13 | Progress in Organic Coatings | 13.5 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Journal of Chemical Reviews | 12.2 | 93th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 15 | European Polymer Journal | 11.6 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 16 | JACS Au | 11.5 | 92th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 17 | Polymer Testing | 11.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 18 | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 10.8 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | International Journal of Nanomedicine | 10.6 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 20 | Advances in Sample Preparation | 10.6 | 90th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 21 | Carbon Letters | 10.5 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 22 | Chemical Methodologies | 10.4 | 90th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 23 | Gels | 10.3 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 24 | Molecules | 10.3 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 25 | Food Chemistry Advances | 10.1 | 88th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 26 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 10 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 27 | Macromolecular Materials and Engineering | 9.2 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 28 | Journal of Applied Organometallic Chemistry | 9.1 | 87th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 29 | Natural Products and Bioprospecting | 9 | 86th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 30 | Macromolecules | 8.8 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 31 | ACS Macro Letters | 8.8 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | Pharmaceutical Research | 8.7 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 33 | Journal of Molecular Structure | 8.4 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 34 | Organic Chemistry Frontiers | 8.1 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 35 | Molecular Diversity | 7.9 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 36 | Optical Materials | 7.9 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 37 | Polymer International | 7.8 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 38 | ACS Organic and Inorganic Au | 7.8 | 82th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 39 | Organic Letters | 7.7 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 40 | ACS Polymers Au | 7.5 | 81th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 41 | Amino Acids | 7.5 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 42 | Macromolecular Rapid Communications | 7.5 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 43 | Polymer Chemistry | 7.5 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 44 | Polymer | 7.4 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 45 | Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products | 7.3 | 79th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 46 | ACS Applied Polymer Materials | 7.1 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 47 | Chinese Journal of Polymer Science (English Edition) | 7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 48 | Bioconjugate Chemistry | 7 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 49 | Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds | 7 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 50 | Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre | 6.9 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 51 | Bioorganic Chemistry | 6.9 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 52 | Journal of Chromatography A | 6.9 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 53 | Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis | 6.9 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 54 | Molecular Informatics | 6.8 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 55 | Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology | 6.6 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Current Medicinal Chemistry | 6.5 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 57 | Journal of Natural Products | 6.3 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 58 | RSC Sustainability | 6.3 | 73th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 59 | Advances in Polymer Technology | 6.2 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 60 | Chemical Biology and Drug Design | 6.1 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 61 | Cereal Chemistry | 6 | 71th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 62 | Optical Materials: X | 6 | 71th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 63 | Chirality | 5.9 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 64 | Journal of Microencapsulation | 5.9 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 65 | Macromolecular Research | 5.9 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 66 | Journal of Organic Chemistry | 5.8 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 67 | Starch/Staerke | 5.8 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 68 | Applied Biological Chemistry | 5.8 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 69 | Organic Process Research and Development | 5.8 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 70 | Chemistry - A European Journal | 5.8 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 71 | Journal of the Indian Chemical Society | 5.8 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 72 | ChemCatChem | 5.7 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 73 | ChemMedChem | 5.7 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 74 | RSC Medicinal Chemistry | 5.7 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 75 | Advances in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 5.6 | 65th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 76 | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry | 5.6 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 77 | Journal of Polymer Research | 5.6 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 78 | ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters | 5.6 | 63th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 79 | Tetrahedron Chem | 5.6 | 63th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 80 | Medicinal Chemistry Research | 5.5 | 63th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 81 | Asian Journal of Green Chemistry | 5.3 | 62th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 82 | Journal of Natural Medicines | 5.2 | 62th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 83 | Chemistry and Physics of Lipids | 5.2 | 61th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 84 | Computational Biology and Chemistry | 5.2 | 61th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 85 | Biophysical Chemistry | 5.1 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 86 | Egyptian Journal of Petroleum | 5 | 60th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 87 | Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry | 5 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 88 | Steroids | 4.8 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 89 | Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics | 4.8 | 58th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 90 | Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry | 4.8 | 58th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 91 | Organic Materials | 4.7 | 57th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 92 | Planta Medica | 4.7 | 57th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 93 | Chemistry - An Asian Journal | 4.7 | 56th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 94 | ChemPhotoChem | 4.7 | 56th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 95 | ChemBioChem | 4.6 | 56th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 96 | Chemical Review and Letters | 4.6 | 55th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 97 | Natural Product Research | 4.6 | 55th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 98 | Journal of Molecular Modeling | 4.6 | 54th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 99 | Organometallics | 4.6 | 54th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 100 | Express Polymer Letters | 4.5 | 53th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
Rank and percentile are within the Organic Chemistry 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.