Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Materials Science journal rankings 2020
476 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Materials Science has 476 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Polymer Science, and Nature Materials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 in Materials Science (8)
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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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.63Q1 | 35.47 3.64 up from 2019 | 181 | 32% | $6,040 | ||
2Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.05Q1 | 30.65 9.05 up from 2019 | 180 | 37% | $6,500 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.20Q1 | 25.78 4.38 up from 2019 | 754 | 53% | $12,690 | ||
4Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.56Q1 | 23.52 4.16 up from 2019 | 801 | 56% | $12,690 | ||
5Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.05Q1 | 20.29 2.31 up from 2019 | 714 | 18% | $5,740 | ||
6ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.26Q1 | 16.48 0.68 up from 2019 | 4,044 | 36% | $4,500 | ||
7Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.99Q1 | 17.00 6.74 up from 2019 | 40 | 13% | — | ||
8Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 13.73 3.60 up from 2019 | 382 | 27% | $5,150 | ||
9npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 13.41 2.97 up from 2019 | 257 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
10Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 11.95 1.18 down from 2019 | 69 | 27% | $4,530 | ||
11Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.18Q1 | 11.68 0.43 down from 2019 | 3,470 | 44% | $4,500 | ||
12npj 2D Materials and ApplicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 11.76 1.74 up from 2019 | 124 | 100% | $3,405 | ||
13NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 2.99Q1 | 12.10 2.74 up from 2019 | 304 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
14Nano Materials ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 9.93no 2019 value | 56 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
15Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 8.27 0.85 up from 2019 | 2,352 | 58% | $3,700 | ||
16npj Materials DegradationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 7.36 0.33 up from 2019 | 102 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
17Materials Today NanoElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 10.31 3.83 up from 2019 | 64 | 14% | $4,140 | ||
18Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 9.79 1.40 up from 2019 | 314 | 22% | — | ||
19Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.43Q1 | 61.22 4.51 up from 2019 | 712 | 39% | $4,500 | ||
20Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 9.38 1.38 up from 2019 | 3,830 | 18% | $5,340 | ||
21Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 7.13 0.28 up from 2019 | 1,419 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
22Materials Today PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 8.45 2.01 down from 2019 | 131 | 29% | $4,160 | ||
23Journal of Magnesium and AlloysOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 12.93 5.75 up from 2019 | 164 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
24Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.21Q1 | 8.90 2.05 up from 2019 | 257 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
25Progress in BiomaterialsSpringer Nature · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 8.91 2.47 up from 2019 | 62 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
26Bioinorganic Chemistry and ApplicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 2.11Q1 | 9.00 4.35 up from 2019 | 77 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
27Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.09Q1 | 7.53 3.14 up from 2019 | 38 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
28Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.06Q1 | 9.47 1.00 up from 2019 | 1,205 | 17% | $5,290 | ||
29CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 8.99 0.52 up from 2019 | 3,480 | 26% | $4,830 | ||
30Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 7.83 1.26 up from 2019 | 1,406 | 79% | $3,710 | ||
31Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 56.07 16.79 up from 2019 | 907 | 32% | — | ||
322D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 6.52 0.46 down from 2019 | 709 | 78% | $3,895 | ||
33Engineered ScienceOAUnited States | 1.92Q1 | 7.71 2.45 up from 2019 | 82 | 70% | — | ||
34Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 7.45 2.10 up from 2019 | 347 | 21% | $4,690 | ||
35NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 7.87 1.31 up from 2019 | 7,702 | 24% | — | ||
36Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 8.12 1.65 up from 2019 | 819 | 24% | — | ||
372018 Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD)Publisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 0.86 0.14 up from 2019 | 159 | — | — | ||
38Advanced Composites and Hybrid MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.82Q1 | 5.85 0.11 down from 2019 | 133 | 11% | $3,490 | ||
39Journal of Advanced CeramicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.82Q1 | 8.09 4.97 up from 2019 | 131 | 100% | $2,372 | ||
39Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural BiologyPublisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 7.82 1.93 up from 2019 | 323 | 74% | $5,230 | ||
41NanotoxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 6.32 0.47 up from 2019 | 266 | 42% | — | ||
42Arabian Journal of ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 5.85 2.06 up from 2019 | 521 | 99% | $1,490 | ||
43The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.79Q1 | 6.58 0.46 down from 2019 | 3,278 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
44Journal of nanostructure in chemistryOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 7.75 2.15 up from 2019 | 109 | 29% | $3,690 | ||
45International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 6.78 0.79 up from 2019 | 7,350 | 11% | $4,390 | ||
46Materials Today ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 8.94 3.27 up from 2019 | 207 | 23% | $3,500 | ||
47Materials Science for Energy TechnologiesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.74Q1 | 7.49 2.65 up from 2019 | 140 | 100% | $840 | ||
48BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.72Q1 | 6.96 0.24 up from 2019 | 1,347 | 35% | $4,500 | ||
49Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.72Q1 | 6.59 1.70 up from 2019 | 187 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
50Journal of CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 7.21 0.75 down from 2019 | 1,368 | 31% | $4,250 |
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
161 additional Materials Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 476
- Window papers (baseline)
- 482,821 +4.2% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.627 +4.7% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 60Comparison-group list (60)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.