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Best Spectroscopy journals

81 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Spectroscopy. The top 81 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 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 93th Q1 ESCI Yes
7 Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 12 91th 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 83th Q1 SCIE No
15 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 7.7 82th 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 Yes
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 73th Q2 SCIE No
23 Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 6.1 72th 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 63th Q2 SCIE No
31 Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 5.4 62th Q2 SCIE No
32 Analysis and Sensing 5.3 61th 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 53th Q2 SCIE No
39 Forensic Chemistry 4.5 52th Q2 SCIE No
40 Applied Spectroscopy 4.4 51th 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 No
45 Atomic Spectroscopy 4.1 45th Q3 SCIE No
46 Analytical Letters 4 43th Q3 SCIE No
47 ACS Applied Optical Materials 3.9 42th Q3 ESCI No
48 International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 3.8 41th 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 33th Q3 SCIE No
55 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Research 3.1 32th Q3 ESCI No
56 Journal of Mass Spectrometry 3 31th 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 22th Q4 ESCI No
64 Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 2.1 21th 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 3th Q4 No
80 Advances in Isotope Geochemistry 0.1 1th 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 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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