Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Materials Science journal rankings 2002
236 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 236 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Surface Science Reports, Annual Review of Materials Science, and Catalysis Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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)
Up to Physical Sciences236 ranked journals
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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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.85Q1 | 12.61 0.47 down from 2001 | 35 | 6% | $4,440 | ||
2Annual Review of Materials ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.44Q1 | 8.95 2.78 up from 2001 | 39 | — | — | ||
3Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.69Q1 | 6.05 2.29 down from 2001 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
4Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.78Q1 | 7.57 1.07 down from 2001 | 122 | 11% | — | ||
5Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 5.69 2.54 up from 2001 | 111 | 1% | $6,500 | ||
6Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 2.99 0.54 up from 2001 | 1,246 | 4% | $3,700 | ||
7Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.34Q1 | 4.72 0.71 up from 2001 | 522 | 3% | $5,740 | ||
8Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.32Q1 | 3.98 1.27 up from 2001 | 184 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
9Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 3.27 0.32 down from 2001 | 128 | 3% | $5,150 | ||
10Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.77Q1 | 3.69 0.19 up from 2001 | 8,434 | 16% | — | ||
11Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.11 0.24 down from 2001 | 1,092 | 5% | $4,250 | ||
12Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.30Q1 | 1.45 0.50 down from 2001 | 145 | 4% | $3,810 | ||
13Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 2.12 0.28 down from 2001 | 1,101 | 5% | $3,930 | ||
14Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 1.51 0.69 down from 2001 | 587 | 10% | $5,110 | ||
15MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.73 0.13 down from 2001 | 4,093 | 6% | $4,500 | ||
16Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.45 0.15 up from 2001 | 1,531 | 3% | — | ||
17LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.85Q1 | 2.71 0.13 up from 2001 | 4,149 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
18Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.16 0.41 down from 2001 | 261 | 12% | — | ||
19Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.86 0.30 up from 2001 | 3,082 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
20CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 2.11 0.35 up from 2001 | 956 | 2% | $4,830 | ||
21Journal of the American Ceramic SocietyWiley · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.71 0.02 up from 2001 | 1,699 | 11% | $4,070 | ||
22Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 1.81 0.41 down from 2001 | 1,453 | 2% | $3,760 | ||
23Chemical Physics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 2.40 0.04 up from 2001 | 4,390 | 5% | $3,270 | ||
24Journal of Applied PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.62Q1 | 2.24 0.08 up from 2001 | 8,243 | 12% | $3,500 | ||
25Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.61Q1 | 1.83 0.58 up from 2001 | 765 | 2% | $4,550 | ||
26PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 1.76 0.19 up from 2001 | 2,982 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
27Applied Physics ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.58Q1 | 1.58 0.16 up from 2001 | 1,015 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
28New Journal of ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.91 0.02 up from 2001 | 690 | 3% | — | ||
29Topics in CatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 1.65 0.23 down from 2001 | 330 | 2% | $3,590 | ||
30Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.51Q1 | 14.74 0.18 down from 2001 | 445 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
31Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sourcesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.48 0.09 down from 2001 | 1,553 | 2% | $3,490 | ||
32Journal of Nanoscience and NanotechnologyAmerican Scientific Publishers · United States | 1.46Q1 | 1.51no 2001 value | 63 | 3% | — | — | |
33MRS BulletinSpringer Nature · United States | 1.45Q1 | 0.98 0.10 down from 2001 | 769 | 70% | $3,490 | ||
34Catalysis LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 1.58 0.30 down from 2001 | 808 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
35Chemical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 1.98 0.09 up from 2001 | 1,100 | 9% | $3,690 | ||
36BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.31Q1 | 2.03 0.38 up from 2001 | 332 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
37Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.60 0.11 up from 2001 | 2,460 | 6% | — | ||
38NanotechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.46no change | 288 | 58% | $3,325 | ||
39Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.43 0.41 up from 2001 | 439 | 2% | $4,070 | ||
40Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States | 1.27Q1 | 1.48 0.39 up from 2001 | 230 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
41Journal of Molecular ModelingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 1.24 0.74 down from 2001 | 154 | 3% | $4,290 | ||
42Journal of Solid State ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q1 | 1.57 0.14 up from 2001 | 1,384 | 2% | $3,540 | ||
43ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.20Q1 | 1.35 0.04 up from 2001 | 286 | 10% | $4,550 | ||
44Thin Solid FilmsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 1.37 0.18 up from 2001 | 3,533 | 3% | $3,120 | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical InsulationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.20Q1 | 1.36 0.37 up from 2001 | 417 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
46Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 1.21 0.42 up from 2001 | 192 | 53% | $3,325 | ||
47International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 1.21 0.82 down from 2001 | 265 | 2% | $4,390 | ||
48Solid State CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.12Q1 | 1.44 0.09 up from 2001 | 1,550 | 12% | $2,960 | ||
49Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.64 0.34 up from 2001 | 398 | 3% | $5,340 | ||
50Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.12Q1 | 0.73 0.05 up from 2001 | 250 | 6% | $4,480 |
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
64 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 236
- Window papers (baseline)
- 187,103 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.660 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.