Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Materials Science journal rankings 2018
458 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 458 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.98. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Polymer Science, and Nature Materials.
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.
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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 | ||
2Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.06Q1 | 14.83 0.93 down from 2017 | 218 | 29% | $6,500 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.02Q1 | 25.32 2.76 up from 2017 | 838 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
4Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.84Q1 | 19.23 1.87 down from 2017 | 889 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
5ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 5.03Q1 | 14.76 0.34 up from 2017 | 3,949 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
6Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.43Q1 | 12.76 0.20 down from 2017 | 3,607 | 48% | $4,500 | ||
7Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 12.32 0.65 down from 2017 | 659 | 25% | $5,740 | ||
8Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.12Q1 | 10.52 5.76 down from 2017 | 71 | 14% | $4,530 | ||
9Materials Today PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 13.70no 2017 value | 30 | 47% | $4,160 | — | |
10npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 10.44 0.04 down from 2017 | 88 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
11Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.50Q1 | 7.51 0.48 down from 2017 | 383 | 16% | $5,150 | ||
12Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 7.90 1.66 up from 2017 | 2,533 | 52% | $3,700 | ||
13Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.95Q1 | 8.46 1.93 up from 2017 | 32 | 12% | — | ||
14npj 2D Materials and ApplicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 8.08no 2017 value | 39 | 100% | $3,405 | — | |
15Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 8.05 1.22 down from 2017 | 113 | 21% | — | ||
16The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.74Q1 | 7.57 1.29 down from 2017 | 2,617 | 37% | $4,500 | ||
17NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 2.63Q1 | 8.52 1.01 up from 2017 | 300 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
18Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 6.76 1.31 up from 2017 | 1,171 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
192D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 7.23 0.38 up from 2017 | 642 | 70% | $3,895 | ||
20Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.30Q1 | 6.44 0.51 up from 2017 | 127 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
21Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.30Q1 | 8.12 0.70 up from 2017 | 1,044 | 26% | $4,250 | ||
22Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 6.78 0.91 up from 2017 | 3,600 | 18% | $5,340 | ||
23Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.25Q1 | 7.25 0.57 down from 2017 | 1,289 | 18% | $5,290 | ||
24NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 6.25 1.05 down from 2017 | 7,250 | 21% | — | ||
25Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 56.08 2.13 up from 2017 | 845 | 40% | $4,500 | ||
26CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 7.40 0.94 up from 2017 | 3,374 | 25% | $4,830 | ||
27NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 6.55 0.24 up from 2017 | 273 | 35% | — | ||
28NanophotonicsOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 6.56 1.49 up from 2017 | 211 | 100% | $2,995 | ||
29Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 5.69 0.77 up from 2017 | 509 | 25% | — | ||
30BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.01Q1 | 6.27 0.20 up from 2017 | 1,286 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
31Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 4.66 0.39 up from 2017 | 142 | 30% | $4,690 | ||
32MacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.01Q1 | 6.46 0.33 up from 2017 | 3,000 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
33Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 6.46 0.16 up from 2017 | 1,260 | 74% | $3,710 | ||
34Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 6.35 0.29 up from 2017 | 313 | 41% | $4,220 | ||
35NanoImpactElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 5.89 2.32 up from 2017 | 100 | 60% | $3,600 | ||
36IUCrJOAInternational Union of Crystallography · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.51 0.85 down from 2017 | 224 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
37Frontiers in ChemistryOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 4.63 0.05 up from 2017 | 242 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
38Journal of Industrial and Engineering ChemistryElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.67Q1 | 4.85 0.12 down from 2017 | 1,438 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
39International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 5.02 0.54 up from 2017 | 3,996 | 10% | $4,390 | ||
40Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.64Q1 | 3.75 1.00 down from 2017 | 289 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
41International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.58 0.27 up from 2017 | 577 | 19% | $4,170 | ||
42Journal of Magnesium and AlloysOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 5.32 2.27 up from 2017 | 141 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
43Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 4.27 0.34 up from 2017 | 1,308 | 18% | $3,810 | ||
44Inorganic Chemistry FrontiersRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 5.74 0.36 up from 2017 | 554 | 7% | — | ||
45NanomaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.55Q1 | 5.00 0.62 up from 2017 | 845 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
46NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.51 0.33 down from 2017 | 692 | 30% | — | ||
47Polymer Degradation and StabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.30 0.58 up from 2017 | 891 | 23% | $4,190 | ||
48Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.17 0.34 up from 2017 | 1,731 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
49Journal of Molecular LiquidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 5.11 0.03 up from 2017 | 3,814 | 10% | $3,480 | ||
50Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 35.39 3.11 down from 2017 | 1,019 | 28% | — |
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.
145 additional Materials Science 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
- 458
- Window papers (baseline)
- 462,648 +3.1% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.590 -7.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.