Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Biomaterials journal rankings 2022
34 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Biomaterials has 34 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2021 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Carbohydrate Polymers, and International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
34 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.19Q1 | 25.24 2.27 down from 2021 | 175 | 37% | $6,500 | ||
2Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 11.83 1.24 up from 2021 | 4,089 | 19% | $5,340 | ||
3International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 9.10 0.76 up from 2021 | 8,611 | 13% | $4,390 | ||
4Journal of Magnesium and AlloysOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 11.49 2.08 up from 2021 | 588 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
5Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 9.43 0.28 up from 2021 | 505 | 20% | $4,690 | ||
6Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and ApplicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 5.86 0.79 up from 2021 | 174 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
7BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.46Q1 | 6.60 0.22 down from 2021 | 1,349 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
8Progress in BiomaterialsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.45Q1 | 5.50 0.48 down from 2021 | 65 | 97% | $3,090 | ||
9Journal of Leather Science and EngineeringOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.26Q1 | 6.02 1.63 up from 2021 | 71 | 100% | $1,230 | ||
10PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.25Q2 | 5.68 0.09 up from 2021 | 9,766 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
11CelluloseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 6.16 0.16 down from 2021 | 2,108 | 22% | $4,390 | ||
12Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 5.59 0.02 up from 2021 | 1,088 | 22% | $3,810 | ||
13PolysaccharidesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.22Q2 | 4.75 0.42 up from 2021 | 61 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
14Journal of Polymers and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.18Q2 | 5.93 0.64 up from 2021 | 978 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
15Journal of Liposome ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.15Q2 | 3.58 1.38 down from 2021 | 99 | 18% | — | ||
16NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 4.74 0.66 down from 2021 | 554 | 26% | — | ||
17International Journal of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.96Q2 | 2.35 0.89 down from 2021 | 50 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
18International Journal of Polymeric MaterialsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.76Q3 | 3.22 0.45 down from 2021 | 368 | 6% | — | ||
19Packaging Technology and ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 2.94no change | 166 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
20Journal of Packaging Technology and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.67Q3 | 2.78 0.14 up from 2021 | 70 | 11% | $3,290 | ||
21BiopolymersWiley · United States | 0.62Q3 | 2.73 0.87 up from 2021 | 152 | 23% | $4,150 | ||
22Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States | 0.57Q3 | 2.21 0.19 down from 2021 | 152 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
23FotteaOAČeská algologická společnost · Czechia | 0.49Q3 | 2.21 0.22 down from 2021 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
24Green MaterialsThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 2.00 0.09 up from 2021 | 69 | 11% | — | ||
25Journal of Bioactive and Compatible PolymersSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.44Q3 | 1.95 0.02 down from 2021 | 106 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
26Nordic Pulp & Paper Research JournalDe Gruyter · Sweden | 0.33Q3 | 1.56 0.08 down from 2021 | 191 | 33% | $2,712 | ||
27Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.32Q4 | 1.35 0.95 up from 2021 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
28Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 1.26 0.23 down from 2021 | 133 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
29Cellulose Chemistry and TechnologyOARomanian Academy's Publishing House · Romania | 0.29Q4 | 1.56 0.13 down from 2021 | 300 | 100% | — | ||
30Precision NanomedicineOAUnited States | 0.28Q4 | 1.36 0.31 up from 2021 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
31Diatom ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 1.35 0.13 up from 2021 | 76 | 11% | — | ||
| 0.19Q4 | 0.82 0.02 up from 2021 | 101 | 100% | — | |||
| 0.15Q4 | 0.54 0.23 down from 2021 | 54 | 100% | — | |||
34Paper and BiomaterialsTsinghua University Press | 0.11Q4 | —no 2021 value | 31 | — | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Biomaterials highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry346
- Polymers and Plastics86
- Biomaterials34
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials14
- Ceramics and Composites6
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Biomaterials journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 34
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,662 +14.5% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.86 +15.7% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.