Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Materials Science journal rankings 2017
442 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 442 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.60, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Nature Materials, and Progress in Polymer Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.89Q1 | 28.54 0.09 down from 2016 | 93 | 40% | $6,040 | ||
2Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 10.09Q1 | 22.56 0.30 up from 2016 | 943 | 48% | $12,690 | ||
3Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.33Q1 | 15.76 5.18 down from 2016 | 207 | 16% | $6,500 | ||
4Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.09Q1 | 21.10 0.12 down from 2016 | 913 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
5ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.31Q1 | 14.41 0.29 down from 2016 | 3,970 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
6Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.97Q1 | 16.28 0.75 up from 2016 | 56 | 16% | $4,530 | ||
7Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.92Q1 | 12.96 0.74 down from 2016 | 3,594 | 46% | $4,500 | ||
8Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.69Q1 | 12.96 0.18 down from 2016 | 561 | 23% | $5,740 | ||
9npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 10.49 6.06 up from 2016 | 35 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
10Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.42Q1 | 7.99 0.64 up from 2016 | 345 | 24% | $5,150 | ||
11The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.35Q1 | 8.86 1.11 down from 2016 | 2,336 | 36% | $4,500 | ||
12Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 9.28 4.50 up from 2016 | 58 | 15% | — | ||
13Progress in Solid State ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 6.93 1.55 up from 2016 | 33 | 25% | — | ||
14NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 3.06Q1 | 7.51 1.96 down from 2016 | 252 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
15Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.05Q1 | 6.52 0.38 up from 2016 | 34 | 17% | — | ||
16Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 6.24 0.62 up from 2016 | 2,446 | 39% | $3,700 | ||
172D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 6.84 0.64 down from 2016 | 395 | 72% | $3,895 | ||
18Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.63Q1 | 7.83 0.18 down from 2016 | 964 | 11% | $5,290 | ||
19Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and AdvancesPublisher not listed | 2.61Q1 | 0.98 6.45 down from 2016 | 274 | 93% | $4,430 | ||
20NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 7.30 0.24 down from 2016 | 6,263 | 17% | — | ||
21Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.54Q1 | 7.41 0.55 up from 2016 | 939 | 23% | $4,250 | ||
22Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 5.45 0.26 up from 2016 | 1,304 | 18% | $4,070 | ||
23Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 5.86 0.77 up from 2016 | 3,418 | 13% | $5,340 | ||
24MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.22Q1 | 6.13 0.03 up from 2016 | 2,959 | 21% | $4,500 | ||
25Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 53.94 1.00 up from 2016 | 832 | 40% | $4,500 | ||
26NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 6.31 0.86 up from 2016 | 269 | 43% | — | ||
27CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 6.45 0.59 up from 2016 | 3,207 | 21% | $4,830 | ||
28BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.10Q1 | 6.07 0.02 up from 2016 | 1,329 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
29NanophotonicsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 5.07 0.55 up from 2016 | 136 | 100% | $2,995 | ||
30Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.08Q1 | 5.92 0.19 down from 2016 | 93 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
31Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.91 0.57 down from 2016 | 282 | 14% | — | ||
32Frontiers in ChemistryOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.06Q1 | 4.57 0.06 up from 2016 | 237 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
33Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 4.28 0.11 up from 2016 | 104 | 13% | $4,690 | ||
34High VoltageOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · China | 1.99Q1 | 4.80no 2016 value | 30 | 100% | $2,200 | — | |
35IUCrJOAInternational Union of Crystallography · United States | 1.98Q1 | 5.36 0.07 down from 2016 | 207 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
36Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 6.29 1.55 up from 2016 | 1,026 | 41% | $3,710 | ||
37Journal of Industrial and Engineering ChemistryElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.91Q1 | 4.96 0.14 up from 2016 | 1,444 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
38Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 6.06 4.10 up from 2016 | 292 | 46% | $4,220 | ||
39Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.73Q1 | 4.75 0.45 up from 2016 | 297 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
40Inorganic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 5.38 0.83 up from 2016 | 402 | 7% | — | ||
41International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 4.48 0.43 up from 2016 | 2,792 | 10% | $4,390 | ||
42NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 4.85 0.27 up from 2016 | 682 | 31% | — | ||
43APL MaterialsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.65Q1 | 4.29 0.39 down from 2016 | 578 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
44International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.31 0.18 up from 2016 | 501 | 24% | $4,170 | ||
45Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.63Q1 | 3.19 0.17 down from 2016 | 54 | 25% | — | ||
46Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 4.66 0.23 up from 2016 | 1,476 | 16% | $3,760 | ||
47Journal of Molecular LiquidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 5.08 1.16 up from 2016 | 2,703 | 8% | $3,480 | ||
48The Journal of Physical Chemistry CAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.60Q1 | 4.87 0.01 down from 2016 | 9,948 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
49Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 3.82 0.36 up from 2016 | 1,561 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
50PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.60Q1 | 3.68 0.48 down from 2016 | 752 | 100% | $3,258 |
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
150 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 442
- Window papers (baseline)
- 463,329 +7.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.60 -8.9% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.