From Nature Catalysis to Energy & Environmental Science discover which publications are leading the way in chemical research

In June, Clarivate, the owner of Web of Science, released the 2025 update to the Journal Citation Reports that is described as a ‘comprehensive overview of the world’s leading and trusted academic journals’. Only those journals that have met Clarivate’s quality standards are featured and, for the first time, the release excluded citations to and from retracted content when calculating the journal impact factor (JIF).

The JIF is considered one – albeit controversial and flawed – measure of quality and trustworthiness, so Clarivate does not recommend considering it in isolation. As a result, we have also listed some additional metrics including the Journal Citation Indicator and the JIF percentile.

The Journal Citation Indicator was introduced in 2021 as a way of normalising metrics for different fields of research and their widely varying rates of publication and citation and provides a single journal-level metric that can be easily interpreted and compared across disciplines.

The JIF percentile transforms the rank in a category based on JIF into a percentile value, again, allowing more meaningful comparison across categories – the higher the value, the higher the JIF of the journal in relation to its peers.

Here we’ve listed the top five journals based on journal impact factor across 10 chemistry fields:

  1. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 17.7
    • 2024 JCI: 2.39
    • JIF percentile: 99.3
  2. Journal of Energy Chemistry, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 14.9
    • 2024 JCI: 1.99
    • JIF percentile: 98.0
  3. Annual Review of Chemical and Biochemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Annual Reviews
    • 2024 JIF: 12.8
    • 2024 JCI: 0.81
    • JIF percentile: 96.7
  4. Carboyhydrate Polymers, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 12.5
    • 2024 JCI: 2.41
    • JIF percentile: 95.3
  5. Food Hydrocolloids, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 12.4
    • 2024 JCI: 2.19
    • JIF percentile: 94.0
  1. Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 13.4
    • 2024 JCI: 2.49
    • JIF percentile: 99.5
  2. Trac-Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 12.0
    • 2024 JCI: 1.30
    • JIF percentile: 98.6
  3. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 10.5
    • 2024 JCI: 2.26
    • JIF percentile: 97.7
  4. ACS Sensors, American Chemical Society
    • 2024 JIF: 9.1
    • 2024 JCI: 1.50
    • JIF percentile: 96.8
  5. ACS Measurement Science AU, American Chemical Society
    • 2024 JIF: 9.0
    • 2024 JCI: 1.33
    • JIF percentile: 95.9
  1. Carbohydrate Polymers, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 12.5
    • 2024 JCI: 2.41
    • JIF percentile: 99.1
  2. Natural Product Reports, Royal Society of Chemistry
    • 2024 JIF: 10.6
    • 2024 JCI: 1.39
    • JIF percentile: 97.4
  3. Biomacromolecules, American Chemical Society
    • 2024 JIF: 5.4
    • 2024 JCI: 1.30
    • JIF percentile: 95.6
  4. Organic letters, American Chemical Society
    • 2024 JIF: 5.0
    • 2024 JCI: 1.50
    • JIF percentile: 93.9
  5. Organic Chemistry Frontiers, Royal Society of Chemistry
    • 2024 JIF: 4.7
    • 2024 JCI: 1.26
    • JIF percentile: 92.1
  1. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 23.5
    • 2024 JCI: 1.54
    • JIF percentile: 98.8
  2. Progress in Solid State Chemistry, Pergamon-Elsevier Science
    • 2024 JIF: 10.5
    • 2024 JCI: 0.74
    • JIF percentile: 96.4
  3. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 10.3
    • 2024 JCI: 1.97
    • JIF percentile: 94.0
  4. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Royal Society of Chemistry
    • 2024 JIF: 6.4
    • 2024 JCI: 1.88
    • JIF percentile: 91.7
  5. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 5.4
    • 2024 JCI: 1.41
    • JIF percentile: 89.3
  1. Nature Catalysis, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 44.6
    • 2024 JCI: 5.63
    • JIF percentile: 99.7
  2. Nature Materials, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 38.5
    • 2024 JCI: 5.99
    • JIF percentile: 99.2
  3. Joule, Cell Press
    • 2024 JIF: 35.4
    • 2024 JCI: 4.00
    • JIF percentile: 98.6
  4. Interdisciplinary Materials, Wiley
    • 2024 JIF: 31.6
    • 2024 JCI: 2.72
    • JIF percentile: 98.1
  5. Advanced Materials, Wiley
    • 2024 JIF: 26.8
    • 2024 JCI: 3.79
    • JIF percentile: 97.6
  1. eScience, Keai Publishing
    • 2024 JIF: 36.6
    • 2024 JCI: 5.58
    • JIF percentile: 98.9
  2. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 36.3
    • 2024 JCI: 2.36
    • JIF percentile: 96.6
  3. ACS Energy Letters, American Chemical Society
    • 2024 JIF: 18.2
    • 2024 JCI: 2.71
    • JIF percentile: 94.3
  4. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 10.5
    • 2024 JCI: 2.26
    • JIF percentile: 92.0
  5. Battery Energy, Wiley
    • 2024 JIF: 9.9
    • 2024 JCI: 1.38
    • JIF percentile: 89.8

  1. Energy & Environmental Science, Royal Society of Chemistry

    • 2024 JIF: 30.8
    • 2024 JCI: 4.49
    • JIF percentile: 98.5
  2. Advanced Materials, Wiley
    • 2024 JIF: 26.8
    • 2024 JCI: 3.79
    • JIF percentile: 97.7
  3. EnergyChem, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 23.8
    • 2024 JCI: 3.36
    • JIF percentile: 97.3
  4. SusMat, Wiley
    • 2024 JIF: 21.3
    • 2024 JCI: 2.62
    • JIF percentile: 96.9
  5. Environmental Chemistry Letters, Springer
    • 2024 JIF: 20.4
    • 2024 JCI: 1.37
    • JIF percentile: 96.4
  1. Medicinal Research Reviews, Wiley
    • 2024 JIF: 11.6
    • 2024 JCI: 1.61
    • JIF percentile: 99.3
  2. Natural Products Reports, Royal Society of Chemistry
    • 2024 JIF: 10.6
    • 2024 JCI: 1.39
    • JIF percentile: 97.9
  3. Chinese Herbal Medicines, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 8.9
    • 2024 JCI: 1.19
    • JIF percentile: 96.5
  4. Phytomedicine, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 8.3
    • 2024 JCI: 2.19
    • JIF percentile: 95.1
  5. Archives of Pharmacal Research, Pharmaceutical Society Korea
    • 2024 JIF: 7.5
    • 2024 JCI: 1.37
    • JIF percentile: 93.8
  1. Nature Methods, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 32.1
    • 2024 JCI: 7.32
    • JIF percentile: 99.4
  2. Nature Protocols, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 16.0
    • 2024 JCI: 3.71
    • JIF percentile: 98.3
  3. Briefings in Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press
    • 2024 JIF: 7.7
    • 2024 JCI: 1.89
    • JIF percentile: 97.1
  4. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Elsevier
    • 2024 JIF: 7.0
    • 2024 JCI: 0.95
    • JIF percentile: 95.9
  5. Journal of Biological Engineering, BMC
    • 2024 JIF: 6.5
    • 2024 JCI: 1.14
    • JIF percentile: 94.8
  1. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 52.7
    • 2024 JCI: 5.04
    • JIF percentile: 99.8
  2. Nature Medicine, Springer Nature
    • 2024 JIF: 50.0
    • 2024 JCI: 11.03
    • JIF percentile: 99.5
  3. Cell, Cell Press
    • 2024 JIF: 42.5
    • 2024 JCI: 7.99
    • JIF percentile: 99.2
  4. Molecular Cancer, BMC
    • 2024 JIF: 33.9
    • 2024 JCI: 5.04
    • JIF percentile: 98.9
  5. Molecular Plant, Cell Press
    • 2024 JIF: 24.1
    • 2024 JCI: 4.37
    • JIF percentile: 98.6
Julia joined the Chemistry World team as Science correspondent in May 2023. She previously spent eight years leading the clinical and science content at The Pharmaceutical Journal, the official journal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a membership body for pharmacists.View full profile

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