Rising Materials Science journals compared with their field
These are the Materials Science journals whose OJR rose faster than the median journal of their field between 2022 and 2025, by +10% or more relative to that median and by at least 2 standard errors. 60 journals qualify.
Between indicator years 2022 and 2025, the median OJR change among 335 eligible Materials Science journals was about -8%, taking the median on a log scale (the group ratio below).
Ordered by the lower bound of the relative-change range at two standard errors, highest first, then higher z (the signed difference in standard errors), then title. How trajectory is calculated (traj-v1)
| Journal | OJR 2022 → 2025 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. | Change relative to Materials Science median (2 SE range) | z (standard errors) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwait Journal of Science | 0.27 → 0.81 | +230.8% (+146.3% to +344.4%) | 8.1 |
| Nano Biomedicine and Engineering | 0.37 → 1.11 | +225.6% (+122.3% to +377.0%) | 6.2 |
| International Journal of Nanoscience | 0.14 → 0.28 | +120.7% (+55.7% to +212.8%) | 4.5 |
| Journal of Rare Earths | 0.85 → 1.29 | +65.9% (+47.6% to +86.5%) | 8.7 |
| Inorganic Chemistry Communications | 0.72 → 1.06 | +59.2% (+45.2% to +74.6%) | 10.1 |
| RSC Advances | 0.96 → 1.27 | +44.8% (+38.4% to +51.5%) | 16.4 |
| Chemical Research in Chinese Universities | 0.47 → 0.67 | +57.6% (+33.2% to +86.5%) | 5.4 |
| Carbon letters | 0.83 → 1.28 | +68.3% (+33.0% to +113.1%) | 4.4 |
| Computational Condensed Matter | 0.48 → 0.72 | +64.3% (+30.3% to +107.0%) | 4.3 |
| MRS Bulletin | 0.58 → 0.86 | +61.4% (+29.5% to +101.1%) | 4.4 |
| Packaging Technology and Science | 0.74 → 1.14 | +68.5% (+29.5% to +119.2%) | 4.0 |
| AATCC Journal of Research | 0.24 → 0.44 | +101.0% (+28.2% to +215.1%) | 3.1 |
| Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials | 0.34 → 0.51 | +65.7% (+27.7% to +115.1%) | 3.9 |
| NanoImpact | 1.14 → 1.80 | +71.8% (+24.8% to +136.4%) | 3.4 |
| ACS Omega | 1.07 → 1.27 | +29.0% (+23.5% to +34.7%) | 11.8 |
| Polymer Bulletin | 0.74 → 0.93 | +37.8% (+20.7% to +57.4%) | 4.8 |
| Journal of the Korean Physical Society | 0.18 → 0.23 | +41.7% (+19.8% to +67.7%) | 4.1 |
| Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials | 0.88 → 1.06 | +32.4% (+18.5% to +48.0%) | 5.1 |
| Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology | 0.57 → 0.70 | +34.6% (+18.5% to +53.0%) | 4.7 |
| TURKISH JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY | 0.35 → 0.46 | +44.7% (+18.4% to +76.8%) | 3.7 |
| Advances in Colloid and Interface Science | 4.17 → 5.15 | +35.0% (+18.2% to +54.2%) | 4.5 |
| Journal of Cluster Science | 0.69 → 0.89 | +40.5% (+16.1% to +69.9%) | 3.6 |
| Ultrasonics Sonochemistry | 2.11 → 2.46 | +27.6% (+15.0% to +41.5%) | 4.7 |
| Progress in Natural Science Materials International | 1.06 → 1.34 | +37.9% (+14.2% to +66.5%) | 3.4 |
| Food Packaging and Shelf Life | 2.00 → 2.34 | +27.8% (+13.9% to +43.3%) | 4.3 |
| Polymer Degradation and Stability | 1.36 → 1.57 | +25.6% (+13.6% to +38.8%) | 4.6 |
| Diamond and Related Materials | 0.82 → 0.92 | +22.5% (+13.4% to +32.4%) | 5.2 |
| MRS Advances | 0.19 → 0.24 | +34.7% (+13.4% to +60.2%) | 3.5 |
| Polymers | 1.25 → 1.34 | +16.7% (+11.8% to +21.8%) | 7.2 |
| Journal of Structural Chemistry | 0.19 → 0.25 | +42.6% (+11.6% to +82.1%) | 2.9 |
| Materials Science and Engineering B | 0.90 → 1.00 | +21.9% (+10.0% to +35.0%) | 3.9 |
| Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society | 0.50 → 0.64 | +40.1% (+10.0% to +78.5%) | 2.8 |
| Carbohydrate Polymers | 2.67 → 2.82 | +15.2% (+9.8% to +20.9%) | 5.9 |
| Journal of Magnesium and Alloys | 2.04 → 2.39 | +27.9% (+9.4% to +49.5%) | 3.2 |
| International Journal of Polymer Science | 0.86 → 1.22 | +54.3% (+9.1% to +118.3%) | 2.5 |
| Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids | 0.89 → 0.97 | +18.7% (+8.6% to +29.6%) | 3.9 |
| Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials | 0.54 → 0.66 | +32.8% (+8.0% to +63.2%) | 2.7 |
| Journal of Nanoparticle Research | 0.56 → 0.69 | +35.2% (+8.0% to +69.2%) | 2.7 |
| International Journal of Impact Engineering | 1.45 → 1.60 | +20.8% (+7.9% to +35.3%) | 3.3 |
| Chemical Reviews | 2.68 → 2.97 | +21.0% (+7.7% to +36.0%) | 3.3 |
| Journal of Crystal Growth | 0.44 → 0.49 | +20.4% (+7.4% to +35.1%) | 3.2 |
| Polymer Testing | 1.36 → 1.50 | +20.7% (+7.2% to +36.0%) | 3.2 |
| Macromolecular Materials and Engineering | 0.83 → 0.93 | +22.1% (+7.1% to +39.1%) | 3.1 |
| Macromolecular Research | 0.52 → 0.63 | +31.0% (+7.0% to +60.3%) | 2.7 |
| European Polymer Journal | 1.29 → 1.38 | +16.9% (+7.0% to +27.6%) | 3.6 |
| Microscopy and Microanalysis | 0.10 → 0.12 | +27.6% (+6.6% to +52.8%) | 2.7 |
| Nanoscale Advances | 1.15 → 1.27 | +20.6% (+5.1% to +38.4%) | 2.7 |
| Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 4.60 → 4.74 | +12.5% (+4.6% to +20.9%) | 3.3 |
| Journal of Inorganic Materials | 0.23 → 0.26 | +22.7% (+3.6% to +45.4%) | 2.4 |
| Tungsten | 1.18 → 1.40 | +29.6% (+3.1% to +63.0%) | 2.3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 0.14 → 0.19 | +54.2% (+2.8% to +131.5%) | 2.1 |
| Chemical Papers | 0.57 → 0.60 | +15.6% (+2.5% to +30.4%) | 2.4 |
| Chemical Society Reviews | 2.04 → 2.10 | +12.3% (+2.1% to +23.5%) | 2.4 |
| Radiation effects and defects in solids | 0.28 → 0.36 | +40.0% (+2.1% to +92.0%) | 2.1 |
| Journal of Molecular Modeling | 0.58 → 0.62 | +16.7% (+1.9% to +33.6%) | 2.3 |
| Solid State Communications | 0.48 → 0.53 | +20.5% (+1.8% to +42.7%) | 2.2 |
| Fibres and Textiles in Eastern Europe | 0.29 → 0.37 | +40.1% (+1.6% to +93.2%) | 2.1 |
| Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology | 0.66 → 0.78 | +29.6% (+1.2% to +65.9%) | 2.1 |
| Fusion Science & Technology | 0.28 → 0.34 | +33.9% (+1.2% to +77.2%) | 2.1 |
| Polymer Engineering and Science | 0.65 → 0.71 | +18.3% (+0.7% to +39.1%) | 2.1 |
How to read this list
Relative change = journal OJR ratio ÷ median group ratio − 1. The journal ratio is its OJR in 2025 divided by its OJR in 2022. The group ratio is the median of those ratios among eligible journals of the field, taken on a log scale: with an even number of journals, it is the geometric mean of the two middle ratios rather than their average.
Indicator year 2022 counts citations to papers published 2019–2021; indicator year 2025 counts citations to papers published 2022–2024. The two publication cohorts do not overlap.
A journal is listed when it is ranked, its relative change is +10% or more, and the change is at least 2 standard errors above zero (z ≥ 2), so the low end of its two-standard-error range is zero or above.
Large relative changes often start from very low scores: the top journal’s OJR rose from 0.27 to 0.81, still below the world average of 1.00. Relative to the median journal of its field, its change was +230.8%.