Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Materials Chemistry journal rankings 2024
366 ranked journals · Subfield in Materials Science
Materials Chemistry has 366 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Progress in Materials Science, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nature Materials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
366 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.20Q1 | 41.76 11.69 up from 2023 | 252 | 37% | $6,040 | ||
2Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.23Q1 | 26.18 3.79 down from 2023 | 703 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.98Q1 | 22.73 0.88 down from 2023 | 847 | 40% | $12,690 | ||
4Coordination Chemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.92Q1 | 24.62 3.40 up from 2023 | 1,348 | 18% | $5,740 | ||
5Advances in Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.76Q1 | 20.27 2.46 up from 2023 | 447 | 41% | $5,150 | ||
6ACS NanoAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.73Q1 | 16.85 0.26 up from 2023 | 5,548 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
7Journal of Advanced CeramicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 3.59Q1 | 15.96 2.17 down from 2023 | 422 | 100% | $2,372 | ||
8Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 14.77 0.57 up from 2023 | 72 | 29% | $4,530 | ||
9Accounts of Materials ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.96Q1 | 14.00 1.27 up from 2023 | 325 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
10AggregateOAWiley · United States | 2.93Q1 | 12.99 0.31 up from 2023 | 355 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
11Nano Materials ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 14.82 4.87 up from 2023 | 130 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
12Chemical ReviewsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.75Q1 | 54.27 2.71 up from 2023 | 784 | 50% | $4,500 | ||
13npj Computational MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 12.53 2.64 up from 2023 | 688 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
14Corrosion CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.48Q1 | 10.42 3.51 up from 2023 | 95 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
15Ultrasonics SonochemistryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 10.28 1.05 up from 2023 | 1,212 | 100% | $3,710 | ||
16Progress in Solid State ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 11.54 4.40 up from 2023 | 30 | 33% | — | ||
17Communications MaterialsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 10.26 2.10 up from 2023 | 326 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
18Plant Nano BiologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 10.27 4.36 up from 2023 | 52 | 100% | $2,380 | ||
19NPG Asia MaterialsOANature Portfolio · Japan | 2.20Q1 | 8.87 0.47 down from 2023 | 242 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
20Applied Surface Science AdvancesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 10.29 1.79 up from 2023 | 465 | 100% | $2,350 | ||
21TungstenSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 2.16Q1 | 11.77 5.85 up from 2023 | 166 | 6% | $3,190 | ||
22Nano LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.12Q1 | 9.37 0.58 down from 2023 | 4,187 | 26% | $4,500 | ||
23Corrosion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 8.68 1.22 up from 2023 | 2,207 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
24Acta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 8.87 1.13 up from 2023 | 2,416 | 57% | $3,700 | ||
25npj Materials DegradationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 8.50 1.45 up from 2023 | 248 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
26OpenNanoOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 8.81 1.31 up from 2023 | 159 | 100% | $1,860 | ||
27Chemical Society ReviewsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 42.63 0.39 up from 2023 | 892 | 57% | — | ||
28npj 2D Materials and ApplicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 8.90 0.19 down from 2023 | 255 | 100% | $3,405 | ||
29Materials Today AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 8.32 0.08 down from 2023 | 305 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
30CarbonElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 10.88 1.53 up from 2023 | 2,909 | 26% | $4,830 | ||
31Materials Today PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 9.30 0.24 down from 2023 | 858 | 21% | $4,160 | ||
32Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.85Q1 | 9.04 0.43 up from 2023 | 69 | 24% | — | ||
33PolyoxometalatesOATsinghua University Press | 1.84Q1 | 10.61 8.04 down from 2023 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
34Hybrid AdvancesOAElsevier BV | 1.77Q1 | 7.62 3.69 up from 2023 | 128 | 100% | $1,540 | ||
35Nano ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.75Q1 | 9.73 0.22 down from 2023 | 3,085 | 40% | $5,290 | ||
36Journal of MateriomicsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.73Q1 | 8.39 1.63 up from 2023 | 438 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
37Journal of nanostructure in chemistryOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.73Q1 | 8.99 0.10 up from 2023 | 160 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
38Materials Today NanoElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 8.08 0.43 up from 2023 | 338 | 20% | $4,140 | ||
39ACS Nanoscience AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.55Q1 | 6.60 0.75 up from 2023 | 99 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
40Precision ChemistryOAAmerican Chemical Society | 1.54Q1 | 6.92no 2023 value | 71 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
41Nanoscale HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 6.71 1.09 down from 2023 | 347 | 67% | — | ||
42Chinese Chemical LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 7.09 0.87 down from 2023 | 3,093 | 6% | — | ||
43Journal of the European Ceramic SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 6.25 0.43 up from 2023 | 2,465 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
44Arabian Journal of ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 5.76 0.39 down from 2023 | 2,227 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
45International Journal of Impact EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 5.78 0.45 up from 2023 | 764 | 29% | $4,170 | ||
46Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 7.02 0.65 up from 2023 | 180 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
47Materials Science for Energy TechnologiesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.43Q1 | 6.89 1.31 up from 2023 | 171 | 100% | $840 | ||
48The Innovation MaterialsOAPublisher not listed | 1.43Q1 | 6.31no 2023 value | 42 | 100% | — | — | |
49ACS Engineering AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.42Q1 | 6.02 0.85 up from 2023 | 107 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
50IET NanobiotechnologyOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.42Q1 | 5.84 1.13 up from 2023 | 137 | 100% | $2,610 |
Subfields of Materials Science, with Materials Chemistry highlighted.
- Materials Chemistry366
- Polymers and Plastics82
- Biomaterials34
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials16
- Ceramics and Composites5
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films5
- General Materials Science0
- Metals and Alloys0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
72 additional Materials Chemistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 366
- Window papers (baseline)
- 285,185 +3.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.683 +3.4% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.