Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Materials Science journal rankings 2015
419 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 419 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Polymer Science, and Nature Materials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 17.32Q1 | 30.98 2.25 up from 2014 | 69 | 25% | $6,040 | ||
2Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.67Q1 | 27.61 2.86 up from 2014 | 176 | 19% | $6,500 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.81Q1 | 21.56 2.36 up from 2014 | 909 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
4Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.42Q1 | 18.54 0.16 down from 2014 | 831 | 34% | $12,690 | ||
5Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.26Q1 | 14.64 0.49 down from 2014 | 3,210 | 36% | $4,500 | ||
6Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.79Q1 | 10.49 5.73 down from 2014 | 58 | 26% | $4,530 | ||
7ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.69Q1 | 14.23 0.54 up from 2014 | 3,798 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
8Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.02Q1 | 11.89 0.48 down from 2014 | 494 | 19% | $5,740 | ||
9NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 4.35Q1 | 9.35 0.25 down from 2014 | 143 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
102D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 9.71no 2014 value | 42 | 84% | $3,895 | — | |
11Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.93Q1 | 8.05 2.06 down from 2014 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
12Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 7.37 0.53 up from 2014 | 301 | 19% | $5,150 | ||
13The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.44Q1 | 9.14 1.21 up from 2014 | 2,052 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
14NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 7.99 0.16 up from 2014 | 4,620 | 23% | — | ||
15Journal of Materials ChemistryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 0.19 7.78 down from 2014 | 2,957 | 0% | — | ||
16Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.94Q1 | 7.52 0.31 down from 2014 | 453 | 15% | $5,290 | ||
17Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.83Q1 | 7.16 0.40 up from 2014 | 915 | 33% | $4,250 | ||
18Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 5.51 0.64 up from 2014 | 2,214 | 40% | $3,700 | ||
19NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 6.31 0.45 up from 2014 | 262 | 59% | — | ||
20NanophotonicsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 4.66 1.23 down from 2014 | 102 | 100% | $2,995 | ||
21MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.53Q1 | 6.15 0.01 up from 2014 | 3,030 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
22Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and AdvancesPublisher not listed | 2.43Q1 | 4.98 3.10 up from 2014 | 88 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
23Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 5.47 0.43 up from 2014 | 1,408 | 16% | $4,070 | ||
24BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.42Q1 | 6.21 0.12 down from 2014 | 1,482 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
25CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 5.74 0.30 up from 2014 | 2,823 | 21% | $4,830 | ||
26Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 4.99 0.65 up from 2014 | 3,245 | 14% | $5,340 | ||
27Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 4.84 3.34 up from 2014 | 62 | 29% | — | ||
28PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.04Q1 | 3.77 0.16 down from 2014 | 306 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
29Journal of Applied CrystallographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.75 2.54 down from 2014 | 680 | 48% | $5,110 | ||
30APL MaterialsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 2.03Q1 | 4.51 1.33 up from 2014 | 303 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
31Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.83 1.27 down from 2014 | 272 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
32Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.98Q1 | 41.84 5.35 up from 2014 | 643 | 36% | $4,500 | ||
33Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 4.60 0.28 down from 2014 | 725 | 94% | $3,710 | ||
34IUCrJOAInternational Union of Crystallography · United States | 1.95Q1 | 4.53 0.47 down from 2014 | 86 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
35International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.19 0.23 up from 2014 | 388 | 21% | $4,170 | ||
36The Journal of Physical Chemistry CAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.79 0.31 down from 2014 | 9,743 | 20% | $4,500 | ||
37Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.61 0.12 up from 2014 | 1,022 | 20% | $4,190 | ||
38Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 4.60 0.07 down from 2014 | 7,233 | 28% | — | ||
39NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 4.16 0.21 down from 2014 | 585 | 34% | — | ||
40LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.27 0.54 down from 2014 | 5,822 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
41Crystal Growth & DesignAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.39 0.37 down from 2014 | 2,194 | 16% | $4,500 | ||
42Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 3.12 1.46 up from 2014 | 41 | 10% | $4,690 | ||
43Inorganic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 4.25 1.75 down from 2014 | 106 | 13% | — | ||
44Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.29 0.04 up from 2014 | 1,368 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
45International nano letters.OASpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.73Q1 | 3.06 0.29 down from 2014 | 141 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
46Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.71Q1 | 4.93 0.09 down from 2014 | 4,710 | 20% | $4,500 | ||
47Journal of Industrial and Engineering ChemistryElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.69Q1 | 3.77 0.81 up from 2014 | 1,551 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
48PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.83 0.24 up from 2014 | 2,417 | 19% | $3,980 | ||
49Progress in BiomaterialsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.69Q1 | 3.20 1.80 down from 2014 | 34 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
50Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.99 0.97 down from 2014 | 523 | 21% | $3,200 |
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
130 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 419
- Window papers (baseline)
- 448,942 +17.4% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.637 -4.7% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.