Materials Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	72
2	Nano-Micro Letters	62
3	Joule	58
4	Progress in Polymer Science	56
5	Nature Nanotechnology	55
6	Nature Reviews Materials	52
7	Nature Energy	49
8	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	48
9	International Materials Reviews	45
10	Nano Energy	43
11	Cell Stem Cell	42
12	Energy Storage Materials	41
13	Nature Materials	40
14	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	39
15	ACS Energy Letters	38
-	Advanced Materials	38
17	Advanced Energy Materials	37
18	Advanced Fiber Materials	36
-	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	36
20	Composites Part B-Engineering	33
-	Biomaterials	33
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	33
23	InfoMat	32
24	npj Flexible Electronics	31
-	Cement and Concrete Research	31
-	Nature Electronics	31
-	Materials Today	31
-	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	31
29	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	30
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	30
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	30
32	Carbon Energy	29
33	Sustainable Cities and Society	28
-	ACS Nano	28
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	28
-	Automation in Construction	28
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	28
38	Bioactive Materials	27
-	International Journal of Plasticity	27
-	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	27
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	27
42	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	26
43	Polymer Reviews	25
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	25
-	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	25
-	eTransportation	25
-	NPG Asia Materials	25
-	Advanced Functional Materials	25
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	25
50	Carbon	24

-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	24
52	Nano Convergence	23
-	Energy & Environmental Materials	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	23
-	npj Computational Materials	23
-	Composites Science and Technology	23
57	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	22
-	Nano Today	22
-	Acta Biomaterialia	22
-	Journal of Membrane Science	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	22
62	Corrosion Science	21
-	International Journal of Production Economics	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	21
-	Matter	21
-	Nano Research	21
67	Rare Metals	20
-	Regenerative Biomaterials	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Acta Materialia	20
-	Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Medicine	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	20
73	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	19
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	19
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	19
-	Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	19
79	npj Quantum Information	18
-	npj Regenerative Medicine	18
-	Pattern Recognition	18
-	Composite Structures	18
-	Journal of Materials Processing Technology	18
-	Building and Environment	18
-	Construction and Building Materials	18
86	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	17
-	Nano Letters	17
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	17
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	17
-	ACS Sensors	17
-	Biofabrication	17
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	17
-	New Carbon Materials	17
-	Materials & Design	17
-	Applied Surface Science	17
-	Journal of Power Sources	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	17
99	Small	16
-	Stem Cell Reports	16
-	Composites Communications	16
-	Expert Systems With Applications	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	16
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	16
-	Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology	16
-	Advanced Science	16
-	Energy and Buildings	16
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	16
110	Polymer Degradation and Stability	15
-	Journal of the European Ceramic Society	15
-	Tissue Engineering Part B-Reviews	15
-	Stem Cell Research & Therapy	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15
-	International Journal of Fatigue	15
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	15
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	15
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	15
-	ACS Materials Letters	15
-	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	15
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	15
-	Journal of Manufacturing Processes	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	IEEE Systems Journal	15
126	Surface & Coatings Technology	14
-	Progress in Biomaterials	14
-	Materials Today Physics	14
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	14
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	14
-	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	14
-	Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion	14
-	Hydrometallurgy	14
-	Science China-Materials	14
-	Scripta Materialia	14
-	Materials Horizons	14
-	npj Quantum Materials	14
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry	14
-	Biomaterials Research	14
-	International Journal of Production Research	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	14
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	14
146	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials	13
-	Science and Technology of Advanced Materials	13
-	Materials Research Letters	13
-	Materials Today Energy	13
-	CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology	13
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	13
-	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials	13
-	International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials	13
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	13
-	Polymer Testing	13
-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	13
-	Journal of Tissue Engineering	13
-	NanoImpact	13
-	Materials Research Bulletin	13
-	Biosensors-Basel	13
-	IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	13
165	Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China	12
-	Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine	12
-	Macromolecules	12
-	Materials Characterization	12
-	ACS Applied Nano Materials	12
-	ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering	12
-	Cellulose	12
-	Ceramics International	12
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	12
-	Internet of Things	12
-	Indoor Air	12

-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	12
-	FlatChem	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	12
-	Polymers	12
-	Production Planning & Control	12
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	12
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	12
-	Small Methods	12
-	ACS Photonics	12
-	Corrosion Reviews	12
-	Automatica	12
-	Biochip Journal	12
-	Biomacromolecules	12
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	12
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing	12
-	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	12
197	Synthetic Metals	11
-	Production and Operations Management	11
-	Tsinghua Science and Technology	11
-	Materials Chemistry Frontiers	11

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