Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Biomaterials journal rankings 2005

18 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science

Indicator year

Biomaterials has 18 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.18. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Biomacromolecules, and Applied Clay Science.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

7% of Materials Science

Median OJR

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.

0.81+0.05 vs 2004

This subfieldAll 0.79World 1.00

Open-access journals

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.

11%

All fields: 15%

Median listed APC

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.

$4,150

Median positive listed APC: $4,150 among 13 journals. 5 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Materials Science (8)

18 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access

APC (list price)

Publisher country

Biomaterials ranking, 2005
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. OJR	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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.	Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.	Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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.
1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom	9.68Q1	15.66 7.20 up from 2004	118	12%	$6,500
2BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States	1.88Q1	3.54 0.43 up from 2004	824	7%	$4,500
3Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands	1.39Q1	1.35 0.02 down from 2004	299	11%	$3,810
4Journal of Polymers and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States	1.21Q1	1.45 0.30 up from 2004	77	2%	$4,090
5Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom	1.18Q1	1.80 0.11 down from 2004	670	2%	$5,340
6CelluloseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	1.16Q2	1.98 0.76 up from 2004	129	4%	$4,390
7Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States	1.01Q2	1.43 0.07 up from 2004	250	15%	$3,550
8BiopolymersWiley · United States	0.89Q2	2.11 0.09 down from 2004	751	19%	$4,150
9Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.81Q2	1.13 0.07 up from 2004	155	8%	$3,550
10International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands	0.80Q3	1.62 0.02 down from 2004	179	4%	$4,390
11Packaging Technology and ScienceWiley · United Kingdom	0.59Q3	0.66 0.02 up from 2004	99	7%	$4,150
12Journal of Liposome ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States	0.56Q3	1.08 0.25 down from 2004	70	17%	—
13Nordic Pulp & Paper Research JournalDe Gruyter · Sweden	0.56Q3	0.42 0.08 down from 2004	188	6%	$2,712
14Journal of Bioactive and Compatible PolymersSAGE Publishing · United States	0.45Q3	1.09 0.36 up from 2004	107	0%	$4,150
15Diatom ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.28Q4	0.48 0.21 down from 2004	94	0%	—
16Clay science/Clay ScienceOAJapan	0.21Q4	0.28 0.06 up from 2004	40	100%	—
17International Journal of Polymeric MaterialsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands	0.20Q4	0.33 0.14 up from 2004	266	2%	—
18FotteaOAČeská algologická společnost · Czechia	0.08Q4	0.14 0.05 up from 2004	51	0%	—

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

2 additional Biomaterials journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 18
Window papers (baseline): 16,665 +33.4% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR: 0.805 +24.9% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025): 5

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.

Category by indicator year
Measure	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	16	17	17	17	18	18	18	19	18	20	20	22	21	24	27	34	34	33	34	31	31	32	34	35	34	35
Window papers (baseline)	10,374	11,418	12,497	13,746	15,032	16,665	18,805	21,761	25,213	28,956	32,584	36,429	40,369	44,375	48,587	51,963	53,674	54,107	54,469	55,611	57,725	61,019	63,662	65,730	66,118	69,136
Median OJR	0.760	0.69	0.64	0.61	0.759	0.805	0.79	0.811	0.886	0.99	0.90	0.92	0.873	0.91	0.892	0.807	0.716	0.719	0.71	0.74	0.70	0.94	0.86	0.875	0.887	0.95

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.