Journal Rankings 2026 — Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4

Browse 23 ranked journals grouped into quartiles by citation rate. Use the subject filter below to narrow down by research field.

Data last refreshed: Aug 01, 2026

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Q1 — Top 25%

6 journals
Journal IF
Analytical Chemistry
American Chemical Society
6.13
Chemical Research in Chinese Universities
Springer International Publishing
3.85
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Springer Science+Business Media
3.31
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
Elsevier BV
3.24
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Oxford University Press
3.18
Journal of Separation Science
Wiley
2.93

Q2 — 50th-75th Percentile

6 journals
Journal IF
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
Elsevier BV
2.92
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids
Elsevier BV
2.88
Analytical Sciences
Springer Nature
2.34
Journal of Analytical Toxicology
Oxford University Press
2.25
Journal of Chromatography B
Elsevier BV
2.04
Electrophoresis
Wiley
1.76

Q3 — 25th-50th Percentile

6 journals
Journal IF
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Wiley
1.54
Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Wiley
1.51
Chirality
Wiley
1.49
Journal of Chromatographic Science
Oxford University Press
1.47
Journal of AOAC International
Oxford University Press
1.47
Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry
Springer Science+Business Media
1.43

Q4 — Bottom 25%

5 journals
Journal IF
Chromatographia
Springer Science+Business Media
1.35
Biomedical Chromatography
Wiley
1.34
Clinical Chemistry
American Association for Clinical Chemistry
1.15
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Elsevier BV
1.04
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
Wiley
0.98

Understanding Journal Quartile Rankings

Quartile rankings (Q1-Q4) are a standard way to categorize academic journals within a subject. They're calculated by ordering all journals in a category by their citation rate (or SJR score) and dividing them into four equal groups.

Note: When official Scopus/JCR quartile data is available we use it. Otherwise quartiles are approximated by ranking journals within the selected subject by their latest citation rate.

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