Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Materials Chemistry journal rankings 2021
334 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Materials Chemistry has 334 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Nature Materials, and Nature Nanotechnology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
334 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.59Q1 | 37.10 1.62 up from 2020 | 195 | 31% | $6,040 | ||
2Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.26Q1 | 28.54 2.76 up from 2020 | 809 | 51% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.85Q1 | 27.47 3.95 up from 2020 | 717 | 56% | $12,690 | ||
4Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.58Q1 | 20.05 0.24 down from 2020 | 812 | 19% | $5,740 | ||
5ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.08Q1 | 17.79 1.31 up from 2020 | 4,291 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
6Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.06Q1 | 15.06 1.33 up from 2020 | 371 | 29% | $5,150 | ||
7npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 12.35 1.06 down from 2020 | 392 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
8Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 15.19 3.24 up from 2020 | 48 | 38% | $4,530 | ||
9Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.09Q1 | 11.73 5.27 down from 2020 | 53 | 23% | — | ||
10NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 2.95Q1 | 12.00 0.10 down from 2020 | 273 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
11Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.91Q1 | 12.07 0.39 up from 2020 | 3,437 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
12npj 2D Materials and ApplicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 10.32 1.45 down from 2020 | 130 | 100% | $3,405 | ||
13Engineered ScienceOAUnited States | 2.74Q1 | 13.26 5.56 up from 2020 | 138 | 35% | — | ||
14Journal of Advanced CeramicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 2.69Q1 | 11.98 3.89 up from 2020 | 168 | 100% | $2,372 | ||
15Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.68Q1 | 65.18 3.96 up from 2020 | 726 | 46% | $4,500 | ||
16Materials Today NanoElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 11.61 1.29 up from 2020 | 101 | 23% | $4,140 | ||
17Nano Materials ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 10.74 0.81 up from 2020 | 87 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Materials Today AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 10.24 3.48 up from 2020 | 103 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
19Bioinorganic Chemistry and ApplicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 2.38Q1 | 5.45 3.55 down from 2020 | 75 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
20Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 9.15 0.64 down from 2020 | 385 | 33% | — | ||
21Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 8.09 0.18 down from 2020 | 2,366 | 57% | $3,700 | ||
22Journal of nanostructure in chemistryOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.20Q1 | 8.12 0.37 up from 2020 | 112 | 25% | $3,690 | ||
23Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 7.18 0.05 up from 2020 | 1,742 | 25% | $4,070 | ||
24Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 9.20 1.37 up from 2020 | 1,299 | 100% | $3,710 | ||
25Materials Today PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 10.15 1.70 up from 2020 | 227 | 23% | $4,160 | ||
26Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.08Q1 | 7.55 1.34 down from 2020 | 237 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
27CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 9.72 0.73 up from 2020 | 3,389 | 19% | $4,830 | ||
28npj Materials DegradationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 7.03 0.33 down from 2020 | 122 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
29ES Energy & EnvironmentsUnited States | 2.02Q1 | 8.09 3.65 up from 2020 | 116 | 56% | — | ||
30Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 53.12 2.94 down from 2020 | 825 | 35% | — | ||
31Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.96Q1 | 10.16 0.69 up from 2020 | 1,254 | 12% | $5,290 | ||
32ES Materials & ManufacturingOAUnited States | 1.93Q1 | 7.82 4.20 up from 2020 | 103 | 63% | — | ||
33Communications MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 6.98no 2020 value | 98 | 100% | $3,690 | — | |
34Materials Today ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 8.21 0.73 down from 2020 | 326 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
35Materials Science for Energy TechnologiesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.86Q1 | 8.98 1.49 up from 2020 | 208 | 100% | $840 | ||
36NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 7.71 0.16 down from 2020 | 7,178 | 25% | — | ||
37Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 7.93 0.19 down from 2020 | 821 | 19% | — | ||
382018 Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD)Publisher not listed | 1.65Q1 | —no 2020 value | 159 | — | — | ||
39Composites CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 7.43 0.45 up from 2020 | 504 | 10% | $4,070 | ||
40The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.62Q1 | 6.78 0.20 up from 2020 | 3,794 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
41International nano letters.OASpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.61Q1 | 6.68 0.58 up from 2020 | 91 | 13% | $3,590 | ||
42Green Chemistry Letters and ReviewsOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 5.83 0.67 up from 2020 | 145 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
43Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural BiologyPublisher not listed | 1.56Q1 | 5.43 2.39 down from 2020 | 359 | 78% | $5,230 | ||
44Arabian Journal of ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 5.85 0.01 down from 2020 | 729 | 99% | $1,490 | ||
45Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.49Q1 | 6.99 0.39 up from 2020 | 296 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
46Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 5.51 0.21 up from 2020 | 2,116 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
47APL MaterialsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.47Q1 | 6.44 0.82 up from 2020 | 667 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
482D MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 5.89 0.64 down from 2020 | 630 | 71% | $3,895 | ||
49Journal of Science Advanced Materials and DevicesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 6.45 0.41 up from 2020 | 201 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
50Frontiers in ChemistryOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.44Q1 | 5.95 0.07 down from 2020 | 2,695 | 100% | $3,801 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Materials Chemistry highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry334
- Polymers and Plastics83
- Biomaterials32
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials14
- Ceramics and Composites6
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
112 additional Materials Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 334
- Window papers (baseline)
- 275,349 +7.3% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.660 +1.7% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.