Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Field ranking · 2006
Materials Science journal rankings 2006
267 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 267 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Progress in Materials Science, and Nature Materials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.48Q1 | 12.92 2.74 down from 2005 | 102 | 0% | $6,500 | ||
2Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.51Q1 | 15.33 9.91 up from 2005 | 52 | 14% | $6,040 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 12.26 2.78 up from 2005 | 716 | 17% | $12,690 | ||
4Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.35Q1 | 10.40 0.35 up from 2005 | 1,315 | 14% | $4,500 | ||
5Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.52Q1 | 7.73 0.26 down from 2005 | 477 | 5% | $5,740 | ||
6Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 7.03 0.32 up from 2005 | 41 | 5% | $4,530 | ||
7Progress in Solid State ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 3.51 6.85 down from 2005 | 43 | 4% | — | ||
8Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 3.96 0.64 up from 2005 | 1,704 | 6% | $3,700 | ||
9Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 3.08 0.26 down from 2005 | 243 | 3% | $5,150 | ||
10Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.64Q1 | 4.71 0.22 up from 2005 | 1,238 | 7% | $4,250 | ||
11Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.56Q1 | 4.44 0.13 up from 2005 | 11,560 | 18% | — | ||
12Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 4.25 0.36 up from 2005 | 1,786 | 5% | — | ||
13Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 4.27 0.98 up from 2005 | 215 | 9% | — | ||
14MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.90 0.07 up from 2005 | 4,294 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
15Soft MatterRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 3.32no 2005 value | 75 | 7% | — | — | |
16LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.93 0.26 up from 2005 | 5,195 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
17NanotechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.43 0.29 up from 2005 | 1,424 | 52% | $3,325 | ||
18CrystEngCommRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.31 0.11 up from 2005 | 322 | 2% | — | ||
19Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.96Q1 | 4.04 0.08 down from 2005 | 3,715 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
20CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.88 0.53 up from 2005 | 1,731 | 5% | $4,830 | ||
21Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 2.33 0.87 down from 2005 | 508 | 35% | $5,110 | ||
22BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.87Q1 | 3.80 0.26 up from 2005 | 1,071 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
23ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 3.06 0.04 up from 2005 | 928 | 11% | $4,550 | ||
24Journal of Nanoparticle ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.62 0.67 up from 2005 | 206 | 7% | $3,890 | ||
25PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.74 0.15 down from 2005 | 3,371 | 5% | $3,980 | ||
26Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 2.76 0.17 down from 2005 | 813 | 10% | $4,550 | ||
27Crystal Growth & DesignAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.07 0.45 up from 2005 | 763 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
28Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sourcesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.49 0.54 up from 2005 | 1,438 | 7% | $3,490 | ||
29International Journal of Applied Ceramic TechnologyWiley · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.02 0.95 up from 2005 | 94 | 8% | $4,270 | ||
30Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 12.13 1.82 down from 2005 | 181 | 5% | — | ||
31Journal of Applied PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.62Q1 | 2.62 0.04 up from 2005 | 9,271 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
32Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.61Q1 | 24.54 4.26 up from 2005 | 488 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
33Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.67 0.09 up from 2005 | 286 | 46% | $3,325 | ||
34Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 2.42 0.31 up from 2005 | 1,577 | 8% | $3,930 | ||
35Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 1.85 0.50 up from 2005 | 319 | 3% | $3,810 | ||
36Topics in CatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 2.55 0.10 up from 2005 | 368 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
37Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 2.56 0.25 up from 2005 | 2,159 | 7% | $3,760 | ||
38European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.01 0.19 up from 2005 | 1,031 | 6% | $4,330 | ||
39Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.83 0.25 up from 2005 | 2,150 | 6% | — | ||
40New Journal of ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 2.63 0.30 up from 2005 | 770 | 5% | — | ||
41Dalton TransactionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.65 0.40 down from 2005 | 2,007 | 6% | — | ||
42MRS BulletinSpringer Nature · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.90 0.35 up from 2005 | 714 | 67% | $3,490 | ||
43Advances in Applied Ceramics Structural Functional and BioceramicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 1.37 0.22 up from 2005 | 60 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
44Chemical Physics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 2.46 0.01 up from 2005 | 5,088 | 7% | $3,270 | ||
45Polymer CompositesWiley · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.42 0.50 up from 2005 | 230 | 9% | $4,480 | ||
46Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.73 0.10 down from 2005 | 1,121 | 11% | $3,200 | ||
47Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.26 0.07 down from 2005 | 389 | 3% | $3,370 | ||
48Journal of Physics Condensed MatterIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 2.14 0.18 up from 2005 | 3,936 | 54% | $3,325 | ||
49The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.69 0.20 up from 2005 | 787 | 42% | — | ||
50Journal of the American Ceramic SocietyWiley · United States | 1.30Q1 | 1.63 0.14 down from 2005 | 1,621 | 6% | $4,070 |
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
67 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 267
- Window papers (baseline)
- 247,827 +23.7% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.653 -0.8% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.