Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Biomaterials journal rankings 2016
34 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Biomaterials has 34 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2015 to 0.72, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.50. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Biomacromolecules, and Carbohydrate Polymers.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 of Materials Science (8)
34 ranked journals
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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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.35Q1 | 20.94 6.67 down from 2015 | 189 | 11% | $6,500 | ||
2BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.25Q1 | 6.05 0.17 down from 2015 | 1,425 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
3Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 5.09 0.10 up from 2015 | 3,348 | 12% | $5,340 | ||
4Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 4.16 1.04 up from 2015 | 68 | 15% | $4,690 | ||
5PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 4.17 0.40 up from 2015 | 378 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
6NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 4.57 0.41 up from 2015 | 663 | 47% | — | ||
7International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 4.05 0.36 up from 2015 | 2,148 | 10% | $4,390 | ||
8Progress in BiomaterialsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.52 0.68 down from 2015 | 39 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
9Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.44 0.28 up from 2015 | 1,133 | 11% | $3,810 | ||
10Journal of Magnesium and AlloysOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q2 | 2.72 1.05 down from 2015 | 151 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
11CelluloseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 3.44 0.13 down from 2015 | 980 | 18% | $4,390 | ||
12Packaging Technology and ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.37 0.99 up from 2015 | 150 | 27% | $4,150 | ||
13International Journal of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.95Q2 | 1.35 0.39 up from 2015 | 56 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
14Journal of Liposome ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 2.06 0.49 up from 2015 | 127 | 20% | — | ||
15Journal of Polymers and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.81Q2 | 2.20 0.05 down from 2015 | 179 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
16Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.38 0.28 down from 2015 | 117 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
17FotteaOAČeská algologická společnost · Czechia | 0.73Q2 | 1.92 0.13 down from 2015 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
18BiopolymersWiley · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.77 0.33 down from 2015 | 543 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
19Journal of Bioactive and Compatible PolymersSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.66Q3 | 1.57 0.29 down from 2015 | 147 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
20International Journal of Polymeric MaterialsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.63Q3 | 2.10 0.75 up from 2015 | 359 | 9% | — | ||
21Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.50 0.07 up from 2015 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
22Green MaterialsThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.69 0.50 up from 2015 | 53 | 37% | — | ||
23Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.28 0.16 up from 2015 | 160 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
24Nordic Pulp & Paper Research JournalDe Gruyter · Sweden | 0.58Q3 | 1.14 0.11 up from 2015 | 237 | 15% | $2,712 | ||
25Open Journal of Organic Polymer MaterialsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.55Q3 | 1.00 0.17 up from 2015 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
26European Journal of NanomedicineDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.43Q3 | 1.05 0.05 up from 2015 | 85 | 14% | — | ||
27Journal of Colloid Science and BiotechnologyAmerican Scientific Publishers · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.56 0.45 down from 2015 | 91 | 8% | — | ||
28Diatom ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 1.39 0.07 down from 2015 | 106 | 21% | — | ||
29Clay science/Clay ScienceOAJapan | 0.23Q4 | 0.52 0.48 up from 2015 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
30Current Tissue EngineeringBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.21Q4 | 0.21 0.18 down from 2015 | 48 | 4% | — | ||
31Journal of Nanopharmaceutics and Drug DeliveryAmerican Scientific Publishers · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.42 0.06 up from 2015 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
32Nanoscience & Technology Open AccessOASymbiosis Group · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.39 0.53 down from 2015 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
33Polymers from Renewable ResourcesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | 0.43 0.23 up from 2015 | 35 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
| 0.14Q4 | 0.54 0.24 up from 2015 | 51 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Biomaterials highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry300
- Polymers and Plastics77
- Biomaterials34
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials9
- Ceramics and Composites8
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Biomaterials journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 34
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,674 +21.0% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.716 -21.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 |
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| 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.