Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Biomaterials journal rankings 2019
31 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Biomaterials has 31 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Carbohydrate Polymers, and Journal of Magnesium and Alloys.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
31 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.30Q1 | 21.60 6.78 up from 2018 | 216 | 39% | $6,500 | ||
2Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 8.01 1.23 up from 2018 | 3,739 | 15% | $5,340 | ||
3Journal of Magnesium and AlloysOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 7.18 1.86 up from 2018 | 145 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
4Progress in BiomaterialsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 6.44 3.44 up from 2018 | 56 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
5BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.84Q1 | 6.72 0.45 up from 2018 | 1,334 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
6Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 5.36 0.69 up from 2018 | 225 | 16% | $4,690 | ||
7International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 5.98 0.96 up from 2018 | 5,726 | 11% | $4,390 | ||
8Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 5.37 1.10 up from 2018 | 1,316 | 19% | $3,810 | ||
9NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 4.60 0.08 up from 2018 | 627 | 33% | — | ||
10PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.25Q2 | 4.28 0.38 up from 2018 | 2,640 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
11CelluloseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 4.54 0.58 up from 2018 | 1,379 | 19% | $4,390 | ||
12International Journal of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.06Q2 | 2.14 0.56 up from 2018 | 43 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
13Journal of Polymers and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.86Q2 | 3.06 0.97 up from 2018 | 601 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
14Polymers from Renewable ResourcesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.78 0.82 up from 2018 | 35 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal of Liposome ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.97 0.20 down from 2018 | 111 | 18% | — | ||
16Packaging Technology and ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.61 0.14 down from 2018 | 189 | 30% | $4,150 | ||
17Green MaterialsThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.93 0.56 up from 2018 | 65 | 33% | — | ||
18BiopolymersWiley · United States | 0.63Q3 | 2.00 0.12 up from 2018 | 280 | 28% | $4,150 | ||
19FotteaOAČeská algologická společnost · Czechia | 0.59Q3 | 2.39 0.85 up from 2018 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
20International Journal of Polymeric MaterialsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.59Q3 | 1.65 0.31 down from 2018 | 420 | 11% | — | ||
21Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.60 0.39 down from 2018 | 132 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
22Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.43 0.52 down from 2018 | 164 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
23Journal of Bioactive and Compatible PolymersSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.53Q3 | 1.34 0.38 down from 2018 | 128 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
24Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.00 1.50 down from 2018 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of Packaging Technology and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.41Q4 | 1.02 0.38 up from 2018 | 44 | 14% | $3,290 | ||
26Diatom ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.38Q4 | 1.51 0.36 up from 2018 | 101 | 8% | — | ||
27European Journal of NanomedicineDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.28Q4 | 1.06 0.35 up from 2018 | 45 | — | — | ||
28Nordic Pulp & Paper Research JournalDe Gruyter · Sweden | 0.27Q4 | 0.78 0.13 down from 2018 | 272 | 25% | $2,712 | ||
| 0.20Q4 | 0.67 0.13 up from 2018 | 126 | 100% | — | |||
| 0.17Q4 | 0.34 0.21 down from 2018 | 64 | 100% | — | |||
31Paper and BiomaterialsTsinghua University Press | 0.06Q4 | 0.33 0.02 down from 2018 | 74 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Biomaterials highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry329
- Polymers and Plastics82
- Biomaterials31
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials14
- Ceramics and Composites7
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Biomaterials journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 31
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,611 +3.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.74 +3.7% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.