Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Materials Chemistry journal rankings 2018
324 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Materials Chemistry has 324 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Nature Materials, and Nature Nanotechnology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
324 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.97Q1 | 26.00 2.54 down from 2017 | 136 | 38% | $6,040 | ||
2Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.02Q1 | 25.32 2.76 up from 2017 | 838 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.84Q1 | 19.23 1.87 down from 2017 | 889 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
4ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.03Q1 | 14.76 0.34 up from 2017 | 3,949 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
5Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.43Q1 | 12.76 0.20 down from 2017 | 3,607 | 48% | $4,500 | ||
6Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 12.32 0.65 down from 2017 | 659 | 25% | $5,740 | ||
7Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.12Q1 | 10.52 5.76 down from 2017 | 71 | 14% | $4,530 | ||
8Materials Today PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 13.70no 2017 value | 30 | 47% | $4,160 | — | |
9npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 10.44 0.04 down from 2017 | 88 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
10Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.50Q1 | 7.51 0.48 down from 2017 | 383 | 16% | $5,150 | ||
11Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 7.90 1.66 up from 2017 | 2,533 | 52% | $3,700 | ||
12Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.95Q1 | 8.46 1.93 up from 2017 | 32 | 12% | — | ||
13npj 2D Materials and ApplicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 8.08no 2017 value | 39 | 100% | $3,405 | — | |
14Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 8.05 1.22 down from 2017 | 113 | 21% | — | ||
15The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.74Q1 | 7.57 1.29 down from 2017 | 2,617 | 37% | $4,500 | ||
16NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 2.63Q1 | 8.52 1.01 up from 2017 | 300 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
17Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 6.76 1.31 up from 2017 | 1,171 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
182D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 7.23 0.38 up from 2017 | 642 | 70% | $3,895 | ||
19Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.30Q1 | 6.44 0.51 up from 2017 | 127 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
20Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.30Q1 | 8.12 0.70 up from 2017 | 1,044 | 26% | $4,250 | ||
21Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.25Q1 | 7.25 0.57 down from 2017 | 1,289 | 18% | $5,290 | ||
22NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 6.25 1.05 down from 2017 | 7,250 | 21% | — | ||
23Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 56.08 2.13 up from 2017 | 845 | 40% | $4,500 | ||
24CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 7.40 0.94 up from 2017 | 3,374 | 25% | $4,830 | ||
25NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 6.55 0.24 up from 2017 | 273 | 35% | — | ||
26Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 5.69 0.77 up from 2017 | 509 | 25% | — | ||
27Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 6.46 0.16 up from 2017 | 1,260 | 74% | $3,710 | ||
28Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 6.35 0.29 up from 2017 | 313 | 41% | $4,220 | ||
29NanoImpactElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 5.89 2.32 up from 2017 | 100 | 60% | $3,600 | ||
30IUCrJOAInternational Union of Crystallography · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.51 0.85 down from 2017 | 224 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
31Frontiers in ChemistryOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 4.63 0.05 up from 2017 | 242 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
32Journal of Industrial and Engineering ChemistryElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.67Q1 | 4.85 0.12 down from 2017 | 1,438 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
33Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.64Q1 | 3.75 1.00 down from 2017 | 289 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
34International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.58 0.27 up from 2017 | 577 | 19% | $4,170 | ||
35Inorganic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 5.74 0.36 up from 2017 | 554 | 7% | — | ||
36NanomaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.55Q1 | 5.00 0.62 up from 2017 | 845 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
37Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.17 0.34 up from 2017 | 1,731 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
38Journal of Molecular LiquidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 5.11 0.03 up from 2017 | 3,814 | 10% | $3,480 | ||
39Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 35.39 3.11 down from 2017 | 1,019 | 28% | — | ||
40APL MaterialsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.47Q1 | 4.43 0.14 up from 2017 | 520 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
41Applied Catalysis A GeneralElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 4.85 0.19 up from 2017 | 1,316 | 20% | $3,760 | ||
42Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.32 0.75 up from 2017 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
43Applied Surface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 5.36 0.69 up from 2017 | 8,645 | 13% | $3,930 | ||
44Inorganic ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.41Q1 | 5.15 0.08 up from 2017 | 4,500 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
45High VoltageOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · China | 1.41Q1 | 4.11 0.69 down from 2017 | 73 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
46The Journal of Physical Chemistry CAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.40Q1 | 4.61 0.26 down from 2017 | 9,638 | 22% | $4,500 | ||
47International nano letters.OASpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.39Q1 | 3.43 0.23 up from 2017 | 88 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
48Progress in Natural Science Materials InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.68 0.59 up from 2017 | 302 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
49Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.36Q1 | 3.39 0.21 up from 2017 | 52 | 9% | — | ||
50Catalysis TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 4.43 0.10 down from 2017 | 1,799 | 22% | $3,930 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Materials Chemistry highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry324
- Polymers and Plastics77
- Biomaterials34
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials11
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
94 additional Materials Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 324
- Window papers (baseline)
- 256,729 +4.3% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.649 -1.6% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 | 147 | 150 | 153 | 165 | 172 | 175 | 177 | 191 | 198 | 206 | 213 | 221 | 240 | 256 | 277 | 288 | 300 | 312 | 324 | 329 | 332 | 334 | 346 | 362 | 366 | 363 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 83,525 | 91,142 | 97,816 | 106,715 | 114,237 | 125,073 | 135,445 | 148,491 | 161,932 | 174,081 | 185,077 | 194,748 | 210,226 | 221,886 | 236,788 | 246,172 | 254,827 | 256,248 | 256,729 | 258,993 | 266,963 | 275,349 | 282,624 | 283,079 | 285,185 | 294,138 | |
| Median OJR | 0.61 | 0.644 | 0.75 | 0.78 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.711 | 0.723 | 0.712 | 0.722 | 0.716 | 0.654 | 0.645 | 0.6530 | 0.6590 | 0.6595 | 0.63 | 0.6526 | 0.649 | 0.62 | 0.676 | 0.660 | 0.678 | 0.67 | 0.683 | 0.679 |
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.