Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Materials Chemistry journal rankings 2004
172 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Materials Chemistry has 172 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Nature Materials, and Nano Letters.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 of Materials Science (8)
172 ranked journals
Filters
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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.64Q1 | 4.12 8.16 down from 2003 | 59 | 13% | $6,040 | ||
2Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.86Q1 | 7.39 2.46 up from 2003 | 329 | 15% | $12,690 | ||
3Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.94Q1 | 7.94 2.19 up from 2003 | 835 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
4Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.65Q1 | 6.76 0.93 up from 2003 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
5Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.19Q1 | 6.12 0.33 up from 2003 | 452 | 7% | $5,740 | ||
6Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 3.27 0.19 up from 2003 | 1,510 | 6% | $3,700 | ||
7Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 11.30 2.47 up from 2003 | 116 | 6% | — | ||
8Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 3.81 0.37 down from 2003 | 204 | 3% | $5,150 | ||
9Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.24Q1 | 4.80 2.44 up from 2003 | 34 | 0% | $4,530 | ||
10Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.37 0.24 up from 2003 | 9,311 | 19% | — | ||
11Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.47Q1 | 3.98 0.63 up from 2003 | 1,236 | 6% | $4,250 | ||
12Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 3.04 0.35 up from 2003 | 1,005 | 4% | $3,930 | ||
13NanotechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.18 0.82 up from 2003 | 594 | 52% | $3,325 | ||
14Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.79 0.24 up from 2003 | 1,773 | 5% | — | ||
15Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.57 0.18 down from 2003 | 3,349 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
16Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 2.93 1.23 up from 2003 | 316 | 22% | — | ||
17Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.61 0.07 up from 2003 | 450 | 28% | $5,110 | ||
18LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.12 0.22 up from 2003 | 4,512 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
19Dalton TransactionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.70 1.74 up from 2003 | 745 | 5% | — | ||
20Topics in CatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 2.72 0.63 up from 2003 | 325 | 5% | $3,590 | ||
21Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 2.15 0.43 down from 2003 | 1,840 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
22Journal of Molecular ModelingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 1.98 0.43 down from 2003 | 147 | 10% | $4,290 | ||
23Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.52 0.53 up from 2003 | 167 | 49% | $3,325 | ||
24CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.21 0.09 up from 2003 | 1,389 | 3% | $4,830 | ||
25Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.68 0.53 up from 2003 | 219 | 8% | — | ||
26Journal of Applied PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.40 0.10 up from 2003 | 9,014 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
27New Journal of ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.63 0.38 up from 2003 | 914 | 6% | — | ||
28Journal of the American Ceramic SocietyWiley · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.69 0.03 up from 2003 | 1,523 | 9% | $4,070 | ||
29Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sourcesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.99 0.33 up from 2003 | 1,376 | 4% | $3,490 | ||
30Chemical Physics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 2.41 0.06 up from 2003 | 4,779 | 6% | $3,270 | ||
31ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 2.71 0.96 up from 2003 | 644 | 15% | $4,550 | ||
32The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 1.40 1.40 up from 2003 | 257 | 6% | — | ||
33Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.45Q1 | 18.27 0.09 down from 2003 | 480 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
34Catalysis LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 2.05 0.27 up from 2003 | 833 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
35Journal of Nanoparticle ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 1.71 0.38 up from 2003 | 203 | 5% | $3,890 | ||
36Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.52 0.21 up from 2003 | 717 | 3% | $4,070 | ||
37Computational Materials ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 1.63 0.48 up from 2003 | 503 | 5% | $3,290 | ||
38Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.97 0.17 up from 2003 | 2,502 | 7% | — | ||
39Thin Solid FilmsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 1.63no change | 3,441 | 3% | $3,120 | ||
40Catalysis Surveys from AsiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 1.56 0.81 up from 2003 | 36 | 0% | $3,990 | ||
41Crystal Growth & DesignAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.99 0.20 up from 2003 | 372 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
42Chemical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 1.99 0.02 up from 2003 | 1,170 | 4% | $3,690 | ||
43MRS BulletinSpringer Nature · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.30 0.07 up from 2003 | 810 | 74% | $3,490 | ||
44Photochemical & Photobiological SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.20Q2 | 1.92 0.41 up from 2003 | 348 | 8% | $3,390 | ||
45Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.21 0.17 down from 2003 | 1,679 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
46Interface ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 1.65 0.55 up from 2003 | 118 | 7% | — | ||
47Applied Physics ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 1.54 0.36 up from 2003 | 1,550 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
48Journal of ElectroceramicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.21 0.18 up from 2003 | 142 | 4% | $3,390 | ||
49Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering AspectsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.58 0.09 up from 2003 | 1,589 | 3% | $3,200 | ||
50Surface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 2.04 0.10 up from 2003 | 3,201 | 5% | $3,340 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Materials Chemistry highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry172
- Polymers and Plastics55
- Biomaterials18
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials8
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films6
- Ceramics and Composites3
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
32 additional Materials Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 172
- Window papers (baseline)
- 114,237 +25.3% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.73 +13.7% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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 | 147 | 150 | 153 | 165 | 172 | 175 | 177 | 191 | 198 | 206 | 213 | 221 | 240 | 256 | 277 | 288 | 300 | 312 | 324 | 329 | 332 | 334 | 346 | 362 | 366 | 363 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 83,525 | 91,142 | 97,816 | 106,715 | 114,237 | 125,073 | 135,445 | 148,491 | 161,932 | 174,081 | 185,077 | 194,748 | 210,226 | 221,886 | 236,788 | 246,172 | 254,827 | 256,248 | 256,729 | 258,993 | 266,963 | 275,349 | 282,624 | 283,079 | 285,185 | 294,138 | |
| Median OJR | 0.61 | 0.644 | 0.75 | 0.78 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.711 | 0.723 | 0.712 | 0.722 | 0.716 | 0.654 | 0.645 | 0.6530 | 0.6590 | 0.6595 | 0.63 | 0.6526 | 0.649 | 0.62 | 0.676 | 0.660 | 0.678 | 0.67 | 0.683 | 0.679 |
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.