144 Chemistry journals in ORBIT Tier 2 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 2: second 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 | 0044-8249 | 5,600 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| ChemistrySelect | 2365-6549 | 3,221 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry | 1477-0520 | 1,198 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 0022-3549 | 1,033 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| CrystEngComm | 1466-8033 | 908 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry | 0236-5731 | 720 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Hungary |
| European Journal of Organic Chemistry | 1099-0690 | 715 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Tetrahedron | 0040-4020 | 578 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry | 2193-5807 | 555 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Polymer Science | 2642-4150 | 481 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Synlett | 0936-5214 | 424 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Organometallic Chemistry | 0022-328X | 413 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Tetrahedron Letters | 0040-4039 | 413 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Russian Journal of General Chemistry | 1070-3632 | 404 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry | 1099-0682 | 396 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Biomedical Chromatography | 0269-3879 | 379 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Organometallics | 0276-7333 | 367 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Russian Chemical Bulletin | 1063-5211 | 364 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry | 0253-2786 | 360 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Journal of Analytical Chemistry | 0021-8766 | 346 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Journal of Chromatography B | 1570-0232 | 345 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Synthesis | 0039-7881 | 345 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry | 1044-0305 | 341 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics | 1022-1352 | 334 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer | 0022-4073 | 314 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Letters in Drug Design & Discovery | 1570-1808 | 272 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Pharma Insights and Research. | 3048-5428 | 265 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | II |
| ChemistryOpen | 2191-1363 | 259 | 2 | ≈ ₹2,95,729 to publish | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology | 0193-2691 | 259 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Mendeleev Communications | 0959-9436 | 255 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Oriental Journal Of Chemistry | 0970-020X | 254 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry | 0951-4198 | 248 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry | 1068-1620 | 245 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Chemistry Letters | 0366-7022 | 243 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Japan |
| Structural Chemistry | 1040-0400 | 242 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| ChemistryEurope | 2751-4765 | 241 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Journal of Structural Chemistry | 0022-4766 | 236 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Food Analytical Methods | 1936-9751 | 227 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| RSC Chemical Biology | 2633-0679 | 217 | 2 | ≈ ₹2,67,704 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| PROTEOMICS | 1615-9853 | 204 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Chemistry | 2624-8549 | 203 | 2 | ≈ ₹2,07,585 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Pure and Applied Chemistry | 0033-4545 | 199 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Separation Science Plus | 2573-1815 | 198 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal | 0091-150X | 197 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Annalen der Physik | 0003-3804 | 192 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry | 0022-152X | 192 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society | 0009-4536 | 181 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Taiwan |
| Electroanalysis | 1040-0397 | 170 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry | 1568-0118 | 166 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Petroleum Science and Technology | 1091-6466 | 164 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Analytical Sciences | 0910-6340 | 155 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Singapore |
| Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia | 1011-3924 | 151 | 2 | ≈ ₹19,266 to publish | Yes | Yes | Ethiopia |
| Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society | 1735-207X | 145 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Iran |
| Phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon and the related elements | 1026-7719 | 140 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Proteomics | 1874-3919 | 138 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly | 0026-9247 | 137 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Austria |
| Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry | 0749-1581 | 131 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Chemometrics | 0886-9383 | 125 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology | 1438-7697 | 123 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| International Journal of Mass Spectrometry | 1387-3806 | 121 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Macromolecular Science Part A | 1060-1325 | 120 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Magnetic Resonance | 1090-7807 | 117 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Mass Spectrometry | 1076-5174 | 117 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Oleo Science | 1341-8327 | 116 | 2 | ≈ ₹60,974 to publish | Yes | Yes | Japan |
| Applied Spectroscopy | 0003-7028 | 115 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Synthetic Communications | 0039-7911 | 115 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Atomic Spectroscopy | 0195-5373 | 110 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Hong Kong SAR China |
| Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society | 0003-021X | 110 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics | 0021-9614 | 109 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Radiochimica Acta | 0033-8230 | 102 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Current Analytical Chemistry | 1573-4110 | 96 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Surfactants and Detergents | 1097-3958 | 95 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry | 1389-5575 | 90 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Chromatographia | 0009-5893 | 89 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Colloid Journal | 0010-1303 | 87 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Letters in Organic Chemistry | 1570-1786 | 84 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Chirality | 0899-0042 | 83 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry | 0894-3230 | 80 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Medicinal Chemistry | 1573-4064 | 77 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Analytical Chemistry Letters | 2229-7928 | 73 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1735-5362 | 70 | 2 | IRR 12,000,000 to publish | Yes | Yes | Iran |
| International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 0975-1491 | 68 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| Current Proteomics | 1570-1646 | 67 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials | 2052-5192 | 66 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Acta Chromatographica | 1233-2356 | 65 | 2 | ≈ ₹76,182 to publish | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Spectroscopy | 0887-6703 | 65 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Sulfur Chemistry | 1741-5993 | 63 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Chromatographic Science | 0021-9665 | 61 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Current Chemistry Letters | 1927-7296 | 60 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Canada |
| Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC | 0933-4173 | 59 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Hungary |
| Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds | 0009-3122 | 57 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies | 1082-6076 | 57 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Macromolecular Theory and Simulations | 1022-1344 | 56 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| ACTA Pharmaceutica Sciencia | 1307-2080 | 55 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Türkiye |
| Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry | 1388-3127 | 52 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| PROTEOMICS - CLINICAL APPLICATIONS | 1862-8346 | 52 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Tenside Surfactants Detergents | 0040-3490 | 49 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Chemistry Teacher International | 2569-3263 | 48 | 2 | ≈ ₹81,624 to publish | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| New Materials Compounds and Applications | 2521-7194 | 48 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Grasas y Aceites | 0017-3495 | 46 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
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