Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Materials Science journal rankings 2009
302 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 302 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2008 to 0.71, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Polymer Science, and Nature Materials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
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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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.35Q1 | 19.42 5.65 up from 2008 | 54 | 0% | $6,040 | ||
2Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.65Q1 | 26.20 7.74 up from 2008 | 111 | 3% | $6,500 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.57Q1 | 17.42 3.79 up from 2008 | 769 | 26% | $12,690 | ||
4Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.09Q1 | 13.48 0.92 up from 2008 | 46 | 15% | $4,440 | ||
5Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.98Q1 | 10.98 0.06 up from 2008 | 2,151 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
6Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.43Q1 | 8.60 0.45 down from 2008 | 463 | 6% | $5,740 | ||
7Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.18Q1 | 7.19 0.31 up from 2008 | 40 | 0% | $4,530 | ||
8ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.16Q1 | 7.59 3.16 up from 2008 | 431 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
9Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 7.52 2.66 up from 2008 | 1,005 | 18% | $12,690 | ||
10Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.94Q1 | 5.32 0.19 down from 2008 | 218 | 4% | $5,150 | ||
11NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 6.63 1.39 up from 2008 | 50 | 16% | — | ||
12Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 3.11Q1 | 5.67no 2008 value | 54 | 100% | $5,290 | — | |
13Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 3.70 0.07 down from 2008 | 1,889 | 8% | $3,700 | ||
14Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 5.21 0.65 up from 2008 | 1,936 | 9% | — | ||
15Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.68Q1 | 5.33 0.07 down from 2008 | 976 | 7% | $4,250 | ||
16Soft MatterRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 4.90 0.18 up from 2008 | 694 | 14% | — | ||
17MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.49Q1 | 4.89 0.38 up from 2008 | 3,963 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
18BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.38Q1 | 5.07 0.46 up from 2008 | 1,462 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
19NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.29 0.54 up from 2008 | 229 | 20% | — | ||
20Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 7.36 4.19 up from 2008 | 1,486 | 87% | — | ||
21Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 3.42 0.09 down from 2008 | 228 | 26% | — | ||
22Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 4.19 0.31 down from 2008 | 1,984 | 10% | — | ||
23PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.77 0.11 up from 2008 | 2,543 | 9% | $3,980 | ||
24Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 9.30 6.64 up from 2008 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
25Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.17Q1 | 4.83 0.20 up from 2008 | 4,397 | 13% | $4,500 | ||
26The Journal of Physical Chemistry CAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.16Q1 | 4.37 0.49 up from 2008 | 5,667 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
27Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.86 0.05 down from 2008 | 17,629 | 23% | — | ||
28Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 4.05 0.55 up from 2008 | 999 | 11% | $4,550 | ||
29LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.08Q1 | 4.22 0.15 down from 2008 | 5,752 | 11% | $4,500 | ||
30Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.13 0.21 down from 2008 | 626 | 23% | $5,110 | ||
31MRS BulletinSpringer Nature · United States | 1.98Q1 | 2.97 0.55 up from 2008 | 637 | 69% | $3,490 | ||
32Crystal Growth & DesignAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.97Q1 | 4.02 0.11 down from 2008 | 1,783 | 4% | $4,500 | ||
33CrystEngCommRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 4.15 0.59 up from 2008 | 643 | 7% | — | ||
34NanotechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 3.31 0.17 down from 2008 | 3,768 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
35MetamaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 3.89 0.11 down from 2008 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
36CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 3.22 0.07 down from 2008 | 1,435 | 6% | $4,830 | ||
37Progress in Solid State ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.30 0.63 down from 2008 | 76 | 21% | — | ||
38Dalton TransactionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 4.03 0.29 up from 2008 | 2,161 | 10% | — | ||
39ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.78Q1 | 3.07 0.12 down from 2008 | 1,248 | 20% | $4,550 | ||
40Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 3.28 0.05 down from 2008 | 1,573 | 9% | $3,760 | ||
41Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 2.81 0.33 down from 2008 | 1,668 | 7% | $3,930 | ||
42European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.46 0.06 up from 2008 | 1,377 | 6% | $4,330 | ||
43Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 2.19 0.31 up from 2008 | 456 | 9% | $3,810 | ||
44Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.55Q1 | 37.49 11.42 up from 2008 | 527 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
45Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.88 0.34 up from 2008 | 1,159 | 7% | $5,340 | ||
46Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.51 0.43 up from 2008 | 836 | 10% | $4,190 | ||
47New Journal of ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.87 0.27 down from 2008 | 794 | 7% | — | ||
48Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.96 0.18 up from 2008 | 388 | 11% | $3,370 | ||
49Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 2.76 0.58 up from 2008 | 953 | 6% | $4,070 | ||
50Photochemical & Photobiological SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.42Q1 | 3.08 0.71 up from 2008 | 475 | 16% | $3,390 |
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
71 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 302
- Window papers (baseline)
- 315,775 +27.4% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.71 +8.7% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.