Table 1
Top five multidisciplinary scientific journals ranked by number of citations in 2017. [Source: Clarivate Analytics, 2018]
| Rank | Journal | Number of citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PLOS One | 138,828 |
| 2 | Scientific Reports | 128,437 |
| 3 | Nature Communications | 83,086 |
| 4 | Nature | 73,840 |
| 5 | Science | 67,088 |
Table 2
Ten selected OA chemistry journals not levying an APC
| Field | Journal |
|---|---|
| Organic chemistry | Arkivoc |
| Organic chemistry | Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry |
| Materials chemistry | Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology |
| All fields | Chemical Science |
| All fields | ACS Central Science |
| Lipid science | Grasas y Aceites |
| All fields | CHIMIA |
| History of chemistry | Substantia |
| Materials chemistry | Nanochemistry Research |
| Surfaces and interfacial phenomena | Journal of Applied Surfaces and Interfaces |
Table 3
Ten selected OA chemistry journals levying an APC
| Field | Journal |
|---|---|
| All fields | ChemistryOpen |
| All fields | JACS Au |
| All fields | RSC Advances |
| All fields | ACS Omega |
| All fields | BMC Chemistry |
| Polymer science | Polymers |
| All fields | Open Chemistry |
| Catalysis science | Catalysis, Structure & Reactivity |
| Green chemistry | Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry |
| Organic chemistry | PeerJ Organic Chemistry |
Table 4
APC values in different currencies for selected chemistry and multidisciplinary journals as of late 2020
| Journal | Article processing charge |
|---|---|
| ChemistryOpen | EUR 1,800 |
| JACS Au | USD 5,000* |
| RSC Advances | GBP 750 |
| ACS Omega | USD 1,250 |
| BMC Chemistry | GBP 1,570 |
| Polymers | CHF 1,800 |
| Open Chemistry | EUR 1,200 |
| Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry | USD 2,250 |
| PLOS One | USD 1,695 |
| Science Advances | USD 4,500 |
| Advanced Science | USD 5,000 |
| Nature Communications | GBP 3,790 |
| Heliyon | USD 1,750 |
[i] * Selecting CC-BY license, USD 4,000 when selecting CC-BY-NC-ND license
Table 5
Top 20 publishers by volume, ranked by number of average citations received by articles published in 2016, 2017 and 2018. [Source: SCImago, 2019]
| Rank | Publisher | Average citation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Chemical Society | 6.88 |
| 2 | Royal Society of Chemistry | 5.13 |
| 3 | American Physical Society | 4.29 |
| 4 | Oxford University Press | 3.82 |
| 5 | Frontiers | 3.63 |
| 6 | Elsevier | 3.59 |
| 7 | MDPI | 3.3 |
| 8 | PLOS | 3.3 |
| 9 | Wiley | 3.27 |
| 10 | IEEE | 2.75 |
| 11 | Springer Nature | 2.63 |
| 12 | Institute of Physics | 2.1 |
| 13 | SAGE | 2 |
| 14 | Wolters Kluwer | 1.97 |
| 15 | Hindawi | 1.94 |
| 16 | American Institute of Physics | 1.7 |
| 17 | Taylor & Francis | 1.59 |
| 18 | Cambridge University Press | 1.54 |
| 19 | Walter de Gruyter | 1.16 |
| 20 | Science Press | 1.01 |