Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Materials Science journal rankings 2011
321 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 321 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2010 to 0.63, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Progress in Materials Science, and Surface Science Reports.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.45Q1 | 24.93 0.83 up from 2010 | 137 | 14% | $6,500 | ||
2Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.99Q1 | 15.95 1.28 down from 2010 | 53 | 16% | $6,040 | ||
3Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.55Q1 | 12.12 7.35 down from 2010 | 40 | 13% | $4,440 | ||
4Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.98Q1 | 19.42 2.29 up from 2010 | 776 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
5Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.67Q1 | 13.73 0.93 up from 2010 | 2,573 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
6Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.21Q1 | 11.71 2.04 up from 2010 | 1,063 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
7ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.64Q1 | 12.22 2.19 up from 2010 | 1,896 | 21% | $4,500 | ||
8Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.47Q1 | 10.96 1.36 down from 2010 | 38 | 7% | $4,530 | ||
9Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.29Q1 | 10.73 2.29 up from 2010 | 420 | 12% | $5,740 | ||
10Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.53Q1 | 6.29 1.27 down from 2010 | 205 | 13% | $5,150 | ||
11Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 3.64Q1 | 7.45 1.34 up from 2010 | 288 | 7% | $5,290 | ||
12Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 12.12 5.10 up from 2010 | 470 | 62% | $4,740 | ||
13The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.35Q1 | 6.92 2.84 up from 2010 | 664 | 18% | $4,500 | ||
14NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 6.26 2.03 up from 2010 | 519 | 13% | — | ||
15Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 6.36 0.87 up from 2010 | 3,518 | 7% | — | ||
16Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 5.10 1.30 up from 2010 | 575 | 27% | $5,110 | ||
17Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.74Q1 | 6.04 0.06 up from 2010 | 880 | 10% | $4,250 | ||
18BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.60Q1 | 6.24 0.13 up from 2010 | 1,341 | 20% | $4,500 | ||
19NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 5.50 1.51 up from 2010 | 144 | 18% | — | ||
20Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 3.95 0.02 up from 2010 | 2,066 | 12% | $3,700 | ||
21MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.49Q1 | 5.71 0.46 up from 2010 | 4,040 | 10% | $4,500 | ||
22NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 4.97 0.38 down from 2010 | 314 | 25% | — | ||
23The Journal of Physical Chemistry CAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 5.19 0.47 up from 2010 | 9,277 | 10% | $4,500 | ||
24CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 4.57 0.61 up from 2010 | 1,836 | 8% | $4,830 | ||
25International Journal of Applied Glass ScienceWiley · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.39no 2010 value | 33 | 10% | $4,070 | — | |
26PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.75 0.30 down from 2010 | 2,295 | 8% | $3,980 | ||
27Applied Physics LettersAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.11Q1 | 4.25 0.17 up from 2010 | 14,829 | 27% | — | ||
28LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.06Q1 | 4.66 0.42 up from 2010 | 6,805 | 14% | $4,500 | ||
29Faraday DiscussionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 3.35 0.51 down from 2010 | 302 | 15% | — | ||
30Crystal Growth & DesignAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.98Q1 | 4.88 0.59 up from 2010 | 2,284 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
31Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.98Q1 | 5.04 0.47 up from 2010 | 4,359 | 13% | $4,500 | ||
32Soft MatterRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 4.43 0.42 down from 2010 | 1,804 | 16% | — | ||
33Science and Technology of Nuclear InstallationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 0.76 0.10 down from 2010 | 109 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
34NanotechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.22 0.41 up from 2010 | 3,919 | 52% | $3,325 | ||
35Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.91Q1 | 4.13 1.10 up from 2010 | 247 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
36Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.39 0.47 up from 2010 | 904 | 11% | $4,190 | ||
37Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsWiley · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 4.01 0.08 up from 2010 | 991 | 14% | $4,550 | ||
38Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 3.98 0.24 up from 2010 | 1,654 | 9% | $3,760 | ||
39Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 3.91 0.45 up from 2010 | 1,377 | 8% | $4,070 | ||
40Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.91 0.26 up from 2010 | 4,035 | 17% | — | ||
41Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.77Q1 | 41.32 6.80 up from 2010 | 577 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
42Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 3.51 0.09 up from 2010 | 1,711 | 8% | $5,340 | ||
43Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.54 0.06 down from 2010 | 1,222 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
44Dalton TransactionsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 4.04 0.23 up from 2010 | 3,674 | 10% | — | ||
45Polymer TestingOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.10 0.07 down from 2010 | 392 | 15% | $3,370 | ||
46European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.75 0.06 down from 2010 | 1,113 | 12% | $4,330 | ||
47CrystEngCommRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.62 0.14 down from 2010 | 1,547 | 5% | — | ||
48ChemPhysChemWiley · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 3.03 0.28 up from 2010 | 1,576 | 15% | $4,550 | ||
49Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.79 0.58 up from 2010 | 274 | 50% | $3,325 | ||
50Platinum Metals ReviewOAJohnson Matthey · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.36 0.38 down from 2010 | 134 | 100% | — |
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
102 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 321
- Window papers (baseline)
- 355,696 +21.1% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.634 +1.0% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.