Instruments & Instrumentation: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Sensors	114
2	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	88
3	Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical	81
4	Measurement	76
5	IEEE Sensors Journal	74
6	IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement	63
7	Biosensors-Basel	62
8	Micromachines	60
9	ISA Transactions	59
10	Sensors and Actuators A-Physical	53
11	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	46
12	Lab on a Chip	45
13	Photoacoustics	39
14	Chemosensors	38
15	Measurement Science and Technology	35
16	Structural Health Monitoring-An International Journal	34
17	Smart Materials and Structures	33
18	Infrared Physics & Technology	32
-	Structural Control & Health Monitoring	32
20	Precision Engineering-Journal of the International Societies for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology	30
21	Displays	28
22	Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems	27
23	Journal of Sensors	26
24	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment	25
-	Actuators	25
26	Review of Scientific Instruments	23
-	Journal of Instrumentation	23
28	Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems	21
29	Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics	20
-	Applied Spectroscopy Reviews	20
-	Flow Measurement and Instrumentation	20
32	Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering	18
-	Microfluidics and Nanofluidics	18
34	Applied Spectroscopy	17
-	Surface Topography-Metrology and Properties	17
-	Measurement & Control	17
37	Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control	16
38	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems	15
-	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-Beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms	15
40	IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine	14
-	Metrologia	14
-	Photonic Sensors	14
43	Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control-Transactions of the Asme	13
-	Quantitative Infrared Thermography Journal	13
45	Sensor Review	12
-	MAPAN-Journal of Metrology Society of India	12
47	Instrumentation Science & Technology	11
-	Journal of Chemometrics	11
49	Automation and Remote Control	10
-	Sensors and Materials	10

-	Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology	10
52	Scanning	9
53	Accreditation and Quality Assurance	8
-	Instruments and Experimental Techniques	8
-	tm-Technisches Messen	8
56	Measurement Science Review	7
57	Insight	6