133 Chemistry journals in ORBIT Tier 1 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 1: top quarter of Chemistry by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 1433-7851 | 5,616 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of the American Chemical Society | 0002-7863 | 4,859 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Microchemical Journal | 0026-265X | 4,087 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Chemical Communications | 1359-7345 | 3,435 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Analytical Chemistry | 0003-2700 | 3,211 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Langmuir | 0743-7463 | 3,143 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects | 0927-7757 | 3,105 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | 0021-9797 | 3,016 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Organic Letters | 1523-7052 | 2,607 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Chemical Science | 2041-6520 | 2,415 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,63,313 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Electrochimica Acta | 0013-4686 | 2,195 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Inorganic Chemistry Communications | 1387-7003 | 2,157 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Chemistry - A European Journal | 0947-6539 | 1,984 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| The Journal of Organic Chemistry | 0022-3263 | 1,976 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Talanta | 0039-9140 | 1,736 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy | 1386-1425 | 1,571 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Bioorganic Chemistry | 0045-2068 | 1,238 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Macromolecules | 0024-9297 | 1,237 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 0223-5234 | 1,195 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | France |
| Analytica Chimica Acta | 0003-2670 | 1,175 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Crystal Growth & Design | 1528-7483 | 1,113 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Crystals | 2073-4352 | 1,056 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,99,844 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Results in Chemistry | 2211-7156 | 1,012 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,76,281 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 0010-8545 | 953 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Chromatography A | 0021-9673 | 849 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers | 2052-1545 | 835 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of the Indian Chemical Society | 0019-4522 | 823 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Organic Chemistry Frontiers | 2052-4110 | 759 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry | 1572-6657 | 704 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Chemical Education | 0021-9584 | 688 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| European Polymer Journal | 0014-3057 | 683 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials | 1053-0495 | 599 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| The Analyst | 0003-2654 | 598 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Fluorescence | 1053-0509 | 590 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Macromolecular Rapid Communications | 1022-1336 | 586 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry | 1618-2642 | 583 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis | 0731-7085 | 576 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Polymer Chemistry | 1759-9954 | 573 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Proteome Research | 1535-3893 | 564 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Chinese Journal of Chemistry | 1001-604X | 544 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis | 1615-4150 | 520 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| ACS Materials Letters | 2639-4979 | 465 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| RSC Medicinal Chemistry | 2632-8682 | 425 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry | 0165-9936 | 422 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry | 0968-0896 | 409 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Molecular & Cellular Proteomics | 1535-9476 | 408 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,87,241 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Reactive and Functional Polymers | 1381-5148 | 395 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Research on Chemical Intermediates | 0922-6168 | 389 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| CCS Chemistry | 2096-5745 | 376 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | China |
| Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry | 0267-9477 | 373 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Carbohydrate Research | 0008-6215 | 368 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Separations | 2297-8739 | 354 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,99,844 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| BMC Chemistry | 2661-801X | 341 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,92,758 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Accounts of Chemical Research | 0001-4842 | 339 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry | 1432-8488 | 321 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Advances in Colloid and Interface Science | 0001-8686 | 304 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| ACS Macro Letters | 2161-1653 | 300 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Chem | 2451-9294 | 294 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Separation Science | 1615-9306 | 289 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis | 2095-1779 | 285 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,87,841 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| ACS Central Science | 2374-7943 | 275 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| ACS electrochemistry. | 2997-0571 | 271 | 1 | ≈ ₹4,33,478 to publish | No | No | DCU |
| International Journal of Environmental & Analytical Chemistry | 0306-7319 | 263 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Nature Synthesis | 2731-0582 | 256 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Chemical Reviews | 0009-2665 | 255 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Archiv der Pharmazie | 0365-6233 | 250 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy | 0584-8547 | 241 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems | 0169-7439 | 235 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Arabian Journal of Chemistry | 1878-5352 | 214 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Cluster Science | 1040-7278 | 212 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Talanta Open | 2666-8319 | 207 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,23,482 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Analytical Biochemistry | 0003-2697 | 205 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Colloid & Polymer Science | 0303-402X | 191 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry | 0254-5861 | 185 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Electrochemistry Communications | 1388-2481 | 183 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,58,161 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| The Chemical Record | 1527-8999 | 168 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2314-7245 | 165 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,05,692 to publish | Yes | Yes | Egypt |
| Journal of Applied Electrochemistry | 0021-891X | 158 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry | 1040-8347 | 155 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Medicinal Chemistry Research | 1054-2523 | 153 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Current Opinion in Electrochemistry | 2451-9103 | 135 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan | 0009-2673 | 126 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Japan |
| Polymer Journal | 0032-3896 | 125 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Japan |
| RSC Mechanochemistry | 2976-8683 | 120 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,80,452 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Green Analytical Chemistry | 2772-5774 | 119 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,91,694 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry | 1475-6366 | 112 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,78,859 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| ACS Measurement Science Au | 2694-250X | 110 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,37,150 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| ACS Polymers Au | 2694-2453 | 106 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,37,150 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Green Synthesis and Catalysis | 2666-5549 | 100 | 1 | ≈ ₹96,329 to publish | Yes | Yes | China |
| Journal of Chromatography Open | 2772-3917 | 100 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,32,152 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Polymer science & technology. | 2997-3279 | 98 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,37,150 to publish | No | No | DCU |
| Chem & Bio Engineering | 2836-967X | 97 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,37,150 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Current Organic Chemistry | 1385-2728 | 94 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Colloids and Interfaces | 2504-5377 | 93 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,84,520 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Open Chemistry | 2391-5420 | 90 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,74,131 to publish | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Journal of Chemistry | 2090-9063 | 87 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,29,262 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews | 1751-7192 | 84 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,11,441 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Advances in Sample Preparation | 2772-5820 | 78 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,00,363 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports | 2772-4174 | 78 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,31,189 to publish | Yes | Yes | France |
| Vibrational Spectroscopy | 0924-2031 | 78 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
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