Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Materials Chemistry journal rankings 2022
346 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Materials Chemistry has 346 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nature Materials.
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)
346 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 Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.90Q1 | 34.36 2.73 down from 2021 | 202 | 29% | $6,040 | ||
2Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.24Q1 | 31.63 4.16 up from 2021 | 643 | 44% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.10Q1 | 28.22 0.32 down from 2021 | 834 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
4Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.60Q1 | 20.25 0.21 up from 2021 | 1,050 | 23% | $5,740 | ||
5Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 16.86 1.80 up from 2021 | 443 | 27% | $5,150 | ||
6AggregateOAWiley · United States | 4.14Q1 | 17.18 9.37 down from 2021 | 98 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
7ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.93Q1 | 17.62 0.18 down from 2021 | 4,663 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
8Journal of Advanced CeramicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 3.74Q1 | 17.59 5.61 up from 2021 | 237 | 100% | $2,372 | ||
9Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 11.72 3.47 down from 2021 | 60 | 40% | $4,530 | ||
10Accounts of Materials ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.03Q1 | 12.72 3.58 up from 2021 | 153 | 19% | $4,500 | ||
11npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 9.86 2.49 down from 2021 | 517 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
12Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.68Q1 | 59.42 5.76 down from 2021 | 804 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
13Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.66Q1 | 11.18 0.88 down from 2021 | 3,666 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
14NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 2.60Q1 | 10.46 1.54 down from 2021 | 242 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
15Nano Materials ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 8.33 2.41 down from 2021 | 141 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.45Q1 | 10.39 1.34 down from 2021 | 59 | 17% | — | ||
17Materials Today AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 10.68 0.43 up from 2021 | 169 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
18npj 2D Materials and ApplicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 9.39 0.92 down from 2021 | 187 | 100% | $3,405 | ||
19Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 8.56 0.47 up from 2021 | 2,367 | 52% | $3,700 | ||
20Materials Today PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 10.88 0.73 up from 2021 | 405 | 22% | $4,160 | ||
21Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 7.76 0.58 up from 2021 | 1,952 | 23% | $4,070 | ||
22Materials Today NanoElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 9.21 2.39 down from 2021 | 138 | 17% | $4,140 | ||
23Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 8.87 0.32 down from 2021 | 1,299 | 100% | $3,710 | ||
24Journal of nanostructure in chemistryOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.06Q1 | 10.51 2.39 up from 2021 | 164 | 37% | $3,690 | ||
25Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 48.57 4.56 down from 2021 | 850 | 31% | — | ||
26Communications MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 7.95 0.97 up from 2021 | 214 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
27CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 9.98 0.26 up from 2021 | 3,347 | 22% | $4,830 | ||
28Engineered ScienceOAUnited States | 1.99Q1 | 9.70 3.56 down from 2021 | 181 | 49% | — | ||
29Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 8.08 1.07 down from 2021 | 371 | 33% | — | ||
30Materials Science for Energy TechnologiesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.93Q1 | 7.23 1.76 down from 2021 | 214 | 100% | $840 | ||
31Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.90Q1 | 10.11 0.05 down from 2021 | 1,702 | 10% | $5,290 | ||
32Corrosion CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.77Q1 | 6.53no 2021 value | 30 | 100% | $1,800 | — | |
33Composites CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 7.83 0.40 up from 2021 | 780 | 7% | $4,070 | ||
34Green Chemistry Letters and ReviewsOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 6.40 0.57 up from 2021 | 139 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
35Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.73Q1 | 5.83 1.73 down from 2021 | 233 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
36Materials Today ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 7.77 0.44 down from 2021 | 561 | 19% | $3,500 | ||
37Chemical Physics ReviewsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.69Q1 | 6.64 1.30 up from 2021 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
38Applied Surface Science AdvancesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 6.47 3.08 up from 2021 | 167 | 100% | $2,350 | ||
39Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.65Q1 | 7.16 0.17 up from 2021 | 369 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
40npj Materials DegradationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 5.42 1.61 down from 2021 | 136 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
41Arabian Journal of ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 6.53 0.68 up from 2021 | 1,102 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
42Chinese Chemical LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 8.06 0.47 up from 2021 | 2,338 | 3% | — | ||
43Journal of Science Advanced Materials and DevicesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 7.04 0.59 up from 2021 | 217 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
44International nano letters.OASpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.52Q1 | 3.74 2.95 down from 2021 | 96 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
45NanoscaleRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 6.77 0.94 down from 2021 | 6,555 | 27% | — | ||
46Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 5.92 0.42 up from 2021 | 2,294 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
47APL MaterialsOAAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.47Q1 | 6.27 0.17 down from 2021 | 752 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
48International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.96 0.46 up from 2021 | 666 | 16% | $4,170 | ||
49Frontiers in ChemistryOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.43Q1 | 5.96 0.01 up from 2021 | 3,215 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
50Environmental Science NanoRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 6.32 1.61 down from 2021 | 875 | 18% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Materials Chemistry 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.
105 additional Materials Chemistry 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
- 346
- Window papers (baseline)
- 282,624 +9.1% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.678 +10.1% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43
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 | 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.