Chemistry: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science	98
2	Electrochemical Energy Reviews	76
3	Cell	67
-	Nano-Micro Letters	67
5	Nature Catalysis	60
6	Progress in Polymer Science	58
7	Nature Reviews Materials	55
8	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	54
9	Nature Nanotechnology	53
-	Joule	53
-	Coordination Chemistry Reviews	53
12	Nature Energy	50
13	Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews	49
14	Reviews of Geophysics	47
-	Energy & Environmental Science	47
16	Experimental and Molecular Medicine	45
17	Annual Review of Biochemistry	44
-	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	44
19	Molecular Cancer	43
-	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science	43
21	Nano Energy	42
22	Trends in Food Science & Technology	41
-	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	41
24	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	40
-	Nature Materials	40
-	Energy Storage Materials	40
-	Advanced Materials	40
28	Nature Medicine	39
29	Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry	38
-	Advanced Energy Materials	38
-	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology	38
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	38
33	Progress in Lipid Research	37
-	Journal of Energy Chemistry	37
-	ACS Energy Letters	37
36	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C-Photochemistry Reviews	33
-	Molecular Cell	33
38	Carbon Energy	31
39	Pharmacology & Therapeutics	30
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	30
-	Food Hydrocolloids	30
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	30
43	Molecular Plant	29
-	ACS Nano	29
-	eTransportation	29
-	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	29
47	Sustainable Cities and Society	28
-	TRAC-Trends in Analytical Chemistry	28
-	Drug Resistance Updates	28
-	EMBO Journal	28

-	Nature Methods	28
-	Energy Conversion and Management	28
-	Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety	28
54	Nano Convergence	27
-	ACS Catalysis	27
-	Chemical Engineering Journal	27
-	Nature Protocols	27
-	Applied Energy	27
-	Bioresource Technology	27
60	Redox Biology	26
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
-	Annual Review of Food Science and Technology	26
-	Advanced Functional Materials	26
64	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	25
-	Green Energy & Environment	25
-	Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B	25
-	Drugs	25
-	Carbon	25
69	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	24
-	Molecular Medicine	24
-	Energy Policy	24
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	24
-	Food Packaging and Shelf Life	24
74	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	23
-	Food Chemistry	23
-	Cell Death and Differentiation	23
77	Journal of Membrane Science	22
-	Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering	22
-	Renewable Energy	22
-	Drug Delivery	22
-	Biotechnology for Biofuels	22
-	Polymer Reviews	22
-	Pharmacological Research	22
-	Nano Today	22
-	Journal of Controlled Release	22
-	Energy	22
-	Fuel Processing Technology	22
88	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	21
-	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering	21
-	Journal of CO2 Utilization	21
-	Plant Cell	21
-	Nano Research	21
-	npj Computational Materials	21
-	Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition	21
-	Current Opinion in Biotechnology	21
-	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	21
-	Desalination	21
98	Pharmacological Reviews	20
-	Molecular Psychiatry	20
-	Current Opinion in Food Science	20
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	20
-	Nature Chemical Biology	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering	20
105	Separation and Purification Technology	19
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	19
-	Natural Product Reports	19
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	19
-	Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment	19
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	19
-	Drug Discovery Today	19
-	Trends in Microbiology	19
-	Medicinal Research Reviews	19
-	International Journal of Biological Sciences	19
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	19
-	EMBO Reports	19
-	Fuel	19
-	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	19
119	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	18
-	Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science	18
-	Trends in Pharmacological Sciences	18
-	Solar Energy	18
-	Journal of Energy Storage	18
-	Molecular Systems Biology	18
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	Food Control	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering	18
129	Journal of Power Sources	17
-	Nano Letters	17
-	LWT-Food Science and Technology	17
-	npj Clean Water	17
-	Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy	17
-	Food Engineering Reviews	17
-	Energy and Buildings	17
-	ACS Sensors	17
-	Energy Strategy Reviews	17
-	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	17
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	17
-	Postharvest Biology and Technology	17
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	17
-	Nucleic Acids Research	17
-	Oncogene	17
-	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy	17
-	Food Research International	17
-	ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering	17
-	Energy Reports	17
-	Essays in Biochemistry	17
149	Journal of Rare Earths	16
-	Small	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
-	Process Safety and Environmental Protection	16
-	Phytomedicine	16
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	16
-	Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies	16
-	Archives of Pharmacal Research	16
-	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	16
-	Cell Chemical Biology	16
-	Cell Systems	16
-	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	16
-	Polymer Degradation and Stability	16
-	Meat Science	16
-	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	16
-	Acta Pharmacologica Sinica	16
-	Advanced Science	16
166	Trends in Molecular Medicine	15
-	Scripta Materialia	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	15
-	Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis	15
-	Bioinformatics	15
-	Antioxidants	15
-	Current Opinion in Pharmacology	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	15

-	Surveys in Geophysics	15
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	15
-	Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering	15
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	15
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	15
-	Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry	15
-	Journal of Catalysis	15
-	Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry	15
-	Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences	15
-	Briefings in Bioinformatics	15
186	Talanta	14
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	14
-	Pharmaceutical Biology	14
-	Pharmaceutics	14
-	Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry	14
-	Analytica Chimica Acta	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	14
-	Applied Thermal Engineering	14
-	Food Microbiology	14
-	Genome Research	14
-	Catalysis Today	14
-	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	14
-	Journal of Medicinal Chemistry	14
-	Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers	14

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