Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Materials Science journal rankings 2003
251 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 251 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Surface Science Reports, and Progress in Polymer Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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.
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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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 20.77Q1 | 12.29 1.68 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | $6,040 | ||
2Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.60Q1 | 9.67 2.94 down from 2002 | 39 | 4% | $4,440 | ||
3Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 7.04 1.35 up from 2002 | 135 | 5% | $6,500 | ||
4Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.80Q1 | 5.83 0.21 down from 2002 | 34 | 11% | — | ||
5Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 4.92no 2002 value | 90 | 16% | $12,690 | — | |
6Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 5.80 1.08 up from 2002 | 483 | 4% | $5,740 | ||
7Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.12Q1 | 5.74 1.76 up from 2002 | 489 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
8Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.10Q1 | 2.36 2.22 down from 2002 | 32 | 5% | $4,530 | ||
9Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 8.82 1.26 up from 2002 | 120 | 3% | — | ||
10Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.52Q1 | 4.17 0.90 up from 2002 | 146 | 5% | $5,150 | ||
11Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 3.08 0.09 up from 2002 | 1,310 | 4% | $3,700 | ||
12Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.79Q1 | 4.13 0.45 up from 2002 | 9,018 | 19% | — | ||
13Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.28Q1 | 3.35 0.24 up from 2002 | 1,165 | 7% | $4,250 | ||
14MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.18Q1 | 3.13 0.40 up from 2002 | 4,109 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
15Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 2.69 0.57 up from 2002 | 948 | 4% | $3,930 | ||
16Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.55 0.10 up from 2002 | 1,708 | 5% | — | ||
17Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.04Q1 | 3.75 0.89 up from 2002 | 3,106 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
18Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 2.54 0.71 up from 2002 | 725 | 5% | $4,550 | ||
19LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.90 0.19 up from 2002 | 4,306 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
20Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.53 1.03 up from 2002 | 527 | 15% | $5,110 | ||
21CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.12 0.02 up from 2002 | 1,171 | 3% | $4,830 | ||
22PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.34 0.58 up from 2002 | 3,169 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
23Journal of the American Ceramic SocietyWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.66 0.05 down from 2002 | 1,686 | 10% | $4,070 | ||
24Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 2.57 0.76 up from 2002 | 1,478 | 3% | $3,760 | ||
25Topics in CatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 2.09 0.44 up from 2002 | 367 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
26NanotechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.37 0.91 up from 2002 | 384 | 60% | $3,325 | ||
27New Journal of ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.25 0.34 up from 2002 | 850 | 6% | — | ||
28Chemical Physics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.35 0.05 down from 2002 | 4,423 | 5% | $3,270 | ||
29Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.14 0.01 down from 2002 | 230 | 8% | — | ||
30Journal of Applied PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.30 0.06 up from 2002 | 8,763 | 15% | $3,500 | ||
31BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.83 0.80 up from 2002 | 513 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
32Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 1.47 0.02 up from 2002 | 159 | 5% | $3,810 | ||
33Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sourcesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 1.66 0.17 up from 2002 | 1,381 | 3% | $3,490 | ||
34Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.44Q1 | 18.36 3.62 up from 2002 | 480 | 1% | $4,500 | ||
35Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.32 0.11 down from 2002 | 618 | 2% | $4,070 | ||
36Chemical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 1.97 0.01 down from 2002 | 1,122 | 6% | $3,690 | ||
37ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.35Q1 | 1.75 0.40 up from 2002 | 485 | 11% | $4,550 | ||
38Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.35Q1 | 0.80 0.07 up from 2002 | 276 | 3% | $4,480 | ||
39Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 1.89 0.24 up from 2002 | 519 | 4% | $5,340 | ||
40Reactive and Functional PolymersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 1.52 0.28 up from 2002 | 284 | 1% | $3,920 | ||
41Catalysis LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.77 0.20 up from 2002 | 831 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
42MRS BulletinSpringer Nature · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.23 0.25 up from 2002 | 857 | 71% | $3,490 | ||
43Journal of Nanoscience and NanotechnologyAmerican Scientific Publishers · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.61 0.10 up from 2002 | 188 | 5% | — | ||
44Polymer Engineering and ScienceWiley · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.12 0.20 up from 2002 | 683 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
45Journal of Non-Crystalline SolidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.45 0.09 up from 2002 | 2,190 | 3% | $3,380 | ||
46Thin Solid FilmsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 1.64 0.27 up from 2002 | 3,342 | 3% | $3,120 | ||
47Crystal Growth & DesignAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.26Q1 | 1.79 0.57 up from 2002 | 211 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
48Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 1.80 0.20 up from 2002 | 2,554 | 6% | — | ||
49Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.70 0.66 up from 2002 | 363 | 16% | — | ||
50Surface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q1 | 1.93 0.09 up from 2002 | 3,148 | 6% | $3,340 |
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
58 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 251
- Window papers (baseline)
- 200,299 +22.2% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.6582 +7.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.