Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Field ranking · 2001
Materials Science journal rankings 2001
231 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 231 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 0.98. The top three are Surface Science Reports, Catalysis Reviews, and Annual Review of Materials Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Materials Science (8)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2001. | Compare |
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1Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.87Q1 | 13.08 1.53 down from 2000 | 35 | 0% | $4,440 | ||
2Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.81Q1 | 8.33 2.08 up from 2000 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
3Annual Review of Materials ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 5.77Q1 | 6.18 1.70 up from 2000 | 62 | — | — | ||
4Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 3.15 0.50 up from 2000 | 107 | 2% | $6,500 | ||
5Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 3.59 1.23 up from 2000 | 110 | 4% | $5,150 | ||
6Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 2.45 0.52 up from 2000 | 1,457 | 5% | $3,700 | ||
7Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.82Q1 | 3.49 0.20 down from 2000 | 8,030 | 15% | — | ||
8Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 4.01 1.20 up from 2000 | 600 | 2% | $5,740 | ||
9Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.69Q1 | 3.35 0.04 up from 2000 | 1,130 | 7% | $4,250 | ||
10Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.40 0.24 up from 2000 | 1,066 | 2% | $3,930 | ||
11MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.87 0.18 up from 2000 | 4,120 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
12Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 8.64 0.28 down from 2000 | 128 | 2% | — | ||
13Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.57 0.25 down from 2000 | 249 | 2% | — | ||
14Topics in CatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 1.88 0.60 down from 2000 | 261 | 1% | $3,590 | ||
15LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.92Q1 | 2.57 0.23 up from 2000 | 4,110 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
16Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.29 0.61 up from 2000 | 1,376 | 3% | — | ||
17MRS BulletinSpringer Nature · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.08 0.42 down from 2000 | 681 | 67% | $3,490 | ||
18Journal of the American Ceramic SocietyWiley · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.69 0.11 down from 2000 | 1,659 | 9% | $4,070 | ||
19Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 2.22 0.58 up from 2000 | 1,211 | 2% | $3,760 | ||
20Catalysis LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 1.88 0.06 down from 2000 | 806 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
21Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 1.95 0.83 up from 2000 | 124 | 5% | $3,810 | ||
22Journal of Applied PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.16 0.03 up from 2000 | 8,212 | 12% | $3,500 | ||
23Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.20 0.64 up from 2000 | 621 | 20% | $5,110 | ||
24Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.68Q1 | 14.92 0.24 up from 2000 | 391 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
25Chemical Physics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 2.36 0.16 up from 2000 | 4,370 | 3% | $3,270 | ||
26Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.56 0.12 up from 2000 | 3,155 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
27New Journal of ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.89 0.12 up from 2000 | 650 | 3% | — | ||
28Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sourcesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.57 0.33 up from 2000 | 1,541 | 3% | $3,490 | ||
29CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 1.75 0.44 up from 2000 | 904 | 1% | $4,830 | ||
30Applied Physics ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.46Q1 | 1.42 0.10 up from 2000 | 1,207 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
31Surface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 1.99 0.20 up from 2000 | 3,254 | 5% | $3,340 | ||
32PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.57 0.17 up from 2000 | 2,771 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
33Chemical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 1.90 0.14 up from 2000 | 1,182 | 5% | $3,690 | ||
34Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.48 0.11 up from 2000 | 1,603 | 4% | — | ||
35Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.26Q1 | 0.68 0.11 down from 2000 | 268 | 11% | $4,480 | ||
36BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.25Q1 | 1.65 1.65 up from 2000 | 138 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
37ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.21Q1 | 1.31no 2000 value | 58 | 9% | $4,550 | — | |
38Journal of Molecular ModelingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q1 | 1.98 0.01 up from 2000 | 140 | 7% | $4,290 | ||
39International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 2.03 0.34 up from 2000 | 252 | 2% | $4,390 | ||
40Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States | 1.19Q1 | 1.09 0.09 down from 2000 | 256 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
41Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.17Q1 | 0.92 0.06 up from 2000 | 718 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
42Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 1.22 0.29 up from 2000 | 362 | 15% | — | ||
43Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 1.02 0.35 up from 2000 | 446 | 3% | $4,070 | ||
44Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 1.41 1.00 down from 2000 | 962 | 17% | $4,740 | ||
45Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.10Q1 | 1.25 0.47 up from 2000 | 831 | 5% | $4,550 | ||
46Journal of Non-Crystalline SolidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q1 | 1.20 0.08 up from 2000 | 2,175 | 2% | $3,380 | ||
47Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 0.79 0.04 up from 2000 | 210 | 48% | $3,325 | ||
48Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 1.06 0.20 up from 2000 | 1,066 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
49Diamond and Related MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 1.69 0.28 up from 2000 | 989 | 4% | $2,690 | ||
50Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q1 | 1.30 0.06 up from 2000 | 356 | 3% | $5,340 |
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
57 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 231
- Window papers (baseline)
- 175,484 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.629 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 229 | 231 | 236 | 251 | 262 | 265 | 267 | 284 | 289 | 302 | 306 | 321 | 338 | 363 | 395 | 419 | 433 | 442 | 458 | 467 | 476 | 473 | 490 | 506 | 508 | 504 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 163,946 | 175,484 | 187,103 | 200,299 | 212,830 | 229,805 | 247,827 | 270,857 | 293,613 | 315,775 | 336,201 | 355,696 | 382,365 | 404,167 | 431,123 | 448,942 | 462,729 | 463,329 | 462,648 | 467,211 | 482,821 | 499,970 | 513,549 | 515,160 | 517,536 | 533,293 | |
| Median OJR | 0.61 | 0.629 | 0.660 | 0.6582 | 0.657 | 0.640 | 0.653 | 0.645 | 0.628 | 0.71 | 0.69 | 0.634 | 0.67 | 0.6541 | 0.6577 | 0.637 | 0.593 | 0.60 | 0.590 | 0.592 | 0.627 | 0.647 | 0.6542 | 0.648 | 0.650 | 0.639 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.9% | 455 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.792 per 1,000 | 384 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +2.0% | 446 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 43.0% | 504 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,328 | 348 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 24.1% | 495 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 504 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.64 | 498 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 22.3% | 504 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.1% | 503 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.