Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Materials Science journal rankings 2016
433 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 433 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Polymer Science, and Nature Materials.
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.
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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 Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.45Q1 | 28.63 2.35 down from 2015 | 73 | 32% | $6,040 | ||
2Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.35Q1 | 20.94 6.67 down from 2015 | 189 | 11% | $6,500 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.99Q1 | 22.27 0.71 up from 2015 | 939 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
4Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.20Q1 | 21.22 2.68 up from 2015 | 904 | 39% | $12,690 | ||
5Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.64Q1 | 13.70 0.94 down from 2015 | 3,434 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
6ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.60Q1 | 14.70 0.48 up from 2015 | 3,948 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
7Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.97Q1 | 13.14 1.25 up from 2015 | 510 | 13% | $5,740 | ||
8Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.64Q1 | 15.53 5.04 up from 2015 | 54 | 0% | $4,530 | ||
9NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 3.69Q1 | 9.47 0.13 up from 2015 | 192 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
10Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.69Q1 | 7.35 0.02 down from 2015 | 359 | 17% | $5,150 | ||
11The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.64Q1 | 9.97 0.83 up from 2015 | 2,178 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
12Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and AdvancesPublisher not listed | 3.17Q1 | 7.43 2.45 up from 2015 | 150 | 86% | $4,430 | ||
132D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 7.49 2.23 down from 2015 | 162 | 81% | $3,895 | ||
14NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 7.53 0.45 down from 2015 | 5,907 | 24% | — | ||
15Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.78Q1 | 8.01 0.49 up from 2015 | 656 | 10% | $5,290 | ||
16Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 5.61 0.10 up from 2015 | 2,314 | 47% | $3,700 | ||
17Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.64Q1 | 6.86 0.30 down from 2015 | 940 | 22% | $4,250 | ||
18NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 5.46 0.86 down from 2015 | 284 | 55% | — | ||
19NanophotonicsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.35Q1 | 4.52 0.14 down from 2015 | 101 | 100% | $2,995 | ||
20Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.35Q1 | 6.12no 2015 value | 42 | 100% | $1,750 | — | |
21MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.31Q1 | 6.10 0.05 down from 2015 | 3,000 | 19% | $4,500 | ||
22Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 5.19 0.28 down from 2015 | 1,377 | 20% | $4,070 | ||
23BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.25Q1 | 6.05 0.17 down from 2015 | 1,425 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
24CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 5.86 0.13 up from 2015 | 3,145 | 26% | $4,830 | ||
25IUCrJOAInternational Union of Crystallography · United States | 2.20Q1 | 5.43 0.90 up from 2015 | 160 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
26Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 5.09 0.10 up from 2015 | 3,348 | 12% | $5,340 | ||
27Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.12Q1 | 52.94 11.10 up from 2015 | 749 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
28Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 5.48 0.64 up from 2015 | 129 | 27% | — | ||
29Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 4.16 1.04 up from 2015 | 68 | 15% | $4,690 | ||
30Journal of Industrial and Engineering ChemistryElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.92Q1 | 4.82 1.05 up from 2015 | 1,605 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
31PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 4.17 0.40 up from 2015 | 378 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
32International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.13 0.06 down from 2015 | 445 | 25% | $4,170 | ||
33NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 4.57 0.41 up from 2015 | 663 | 47% | — | ||
34Frontiers in ChemistryOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.78Q1 | 4.51 1.03 up from 2015 | 226 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
35NanomaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.78Q1 | 4.41 0.90 up from 2015 | 229 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
36Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 4.74 0.14 up from 2015 | 836 | 37% | $3,710 | ||
37European Polymer JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 3.97 0.25 up from 2015 | 1,278 | 22% | $4,330 | ||
38The Journal of Physical Chemistry CAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.88 0.09 up from 2015 | 9,814 | 19% | $4,500 | ||
39APL MaterialsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.68 0.17 up from 2015 | 481 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
40Journal of nanostructure in chemistryOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 4.65 1.71 up from 2015 | 183 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
41Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.73 0.12 up from 2015 | 947 | 22% | $4,190 | ||
42Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.31 0.52 down from 2015 | 305 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
43Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.67Q1 | 3.36 1.03 up from 2015 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
44Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.67Q1 | 5.14 0.21 up from 2015 | 4,525 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
45PolymerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.89 0.06 up from 2015 | 2,500 | 23% | $3,980 | ||
46Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.46 0.17 up from 2015 | 1,389 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
47Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 4.33 0.28 down from 2015 | 8,778 | 30% | — | ||
48Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.43 0.35 up from 2015 | 1,677 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
49Inorganic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 4.55 0.29 up from 2015 | 231 | 17% | — | ||
50LangmuirAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.62Q1 | 4.21 0.06 down from 2015 | 5,409 | 22% | $4,500 |
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.
141 additional Materials Science 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
- 433
- Window papers (baseline)
- 462,729 +14.5% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.593 -9.3% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.