Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2023
Biomaterials journal rankings 2023
35 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Biomaterials has 35 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.87, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Progress in Polymer Science, Carbohydrate Polymers, and Food Packaging and Shelf Life.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
35 ranked journals
Filters
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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.90Q1 | 26.98 1.74 up from 2022 | 155 | 40% | $6,500 | ||
2Carbohydrate PolymersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 11.12 0.71 down from 2022 | 4,024 | 25% | $5,340 | ||
3Food Packaging and Shelf LifeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 9.33 0.09 down from 2022 | 556 | 33% | $4,690 | ||
4Journal of Magnesium and AlloysOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 10.37 1.12 down from 2022 | 761 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
5International Journal of Biological MacromoleculesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 8.42 0.68 down from 2022 | 8,773 | 13% | $4,390 | ||
6Journal of Leather Science and EngineeringOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.79Q1 | 6.98 0.97 up from 2022 | 93 | — | $1,230 | ||
7Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and ApplicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 6.39 0.53 up from 2022 | 261 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
8Progress in BiomaterialsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.46Q1 | 5.10 0.40 down from 2022 | 81 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
9BiomacromoleculesAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.44Q1 | 5.92 0.68 down from 2022 | 1,373 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
10PolysaccharidesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.34Q2 | 6.16 1.41 up from 2022 | 106 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
11PolymersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.31Q2 | 5.50 0.18 down from 2022 | 13,259 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
12Applied Clay ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 5.72 0.13 up from 2022 | 1,008 | 36% | $3,810 | ||
13Macromol—A Journal of Macromolecular ResearchOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.21Q2 | 5.57 0.47 up from 2022 | 57 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
14Journal of Polymers and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.21Q2 | 5.32 0.61 down from 2022 | 1,084 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
15CelluloseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 5.38 0.77 down from 2022 | 2,054 | 30% | $4,390 | ||
16Journal of Liposome ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.99Q2 | 4.49 0.91 up from 2022 | 79 | 16% | — | ||
17NanomedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 3.89 0.85 down from 2022 | 501 | 16% | — | ||
18Packaging Technology and ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 3.27 0.33 up from 2022 | 186 | 63% | $4,150 | ||
19International Journal of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.78Q3 | 2.61 0.26 up from 2022 | 35 | — | $1,590 | ||
20International Journal of Polymeric MaterialsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.74Q3 | 2.89 0.33 down from 2022 | 341 | 14% | — | ||
21BiopolymersWiley · United States | 0.58Q3 | 2.92 0.19 up from 2022 | 120 | 45% | $4,150 | ||
22Journal of Packaging Technology and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.58Q3 | 1.74 1.04 down from 2022 | 64 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
23Journal of Bioactive and Compatible PolymersSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.54Q3 | 2.22 0.27 up from 2022 | 110 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
24Clays and Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.65 0.56 down from 2022 | 163 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
25Polymers from Renewable ResourcesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 2.95 1.66 down from 2022 | 30 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
26Green and Sustainable ChemistryOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.41Q3 | 1.48 0.13 up from 2022 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
27Green MaterialsThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 1.57 0.43 down from 2022 | 65 | 23% | — | ||
28FotteaOAČeská algologická společnost · Czechia | 0.39Q4 | 1.21 1.00 down from 2022 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
29Clay MineralsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.89 0.36 down from 2022 | 122 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
30Nordic Pulp & Paper Research JournalDe Gruyter · Sweden | 0.32Q4 | 0.93 0.63 down from 2022 | 204 | 25% | $2,712 | ||
31Cellulose Chemistry and TechnologyOARomanian Academy's Publishing House · Romania | 0.31Q4 | 1.56no change | 300 | 100% | — | ||
32Diatom ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.26Q4 | 1.90 0.56 up from 2022 | 79 | 19% | — | ||
33Precision NanomedicineOAUnited States | 0.21Q4 | 1.04 0.32 down from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.18Q4 | 0.53 0.28 down from 2022 | 103 | 100% | — | |||
| 0.14Q4 | 0.81 0.27 up from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Biomaterials highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry362
- Polymers and Plastics84
- Biomaterials35
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials16
- Ceramics and Composites5
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films4
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Biomaterials journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 35
- Window papers (baseline)
- 65,730 +13.9% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.875 +25.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 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.