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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	77
2	Nano-Micro Letters	67
3	Progress in Polymer Science	58
4	Nature Reviews Materials	55
5	Nature Nanotechnology	53
-	Joule	53
7	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	52
8	Nature Energy	50
9	International Materials Reviews	47
10	Cell Stem Cell	43
11	Nano Energy	42
12	Nature Materials	40
-	Advanced Materials	40
-	Energy Storage Materials	40
15	Advanced Fiber Materials	39
16	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	38
-	Advanced Energy Materials	38
-	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	38
19	ACS Energy Letters	37
20	Nature Electronics	34
21	npj Flexible Electronics	33
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	33
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	33
-	Composites Part B-Engineering	33
-	Biomaterials	33
26	Materials Today	32
27	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	31
-	Carbon Energy	31
-	Cement and Concrete Research	31
30	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	30
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	30
32	ACS Nano	29
-	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	29
-	eTransportation	29
35	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	28
-	Automation in Construction	28
-	International Journal of Plasticity	28
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	28
-	InfoMat	28
40	Nano Convergence	27
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	27
-	Bioactive Materials	27
43	Advanced Functional Materials	26
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
45	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	25
-	Carbon	25
47	Composites Science and Technology	24
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	24
-	NPG Asia Materials	24
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	24

-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	24
52	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	23
-	Energy & Environmental Materials	23
-	Acta Biomaterialia	23
55	Journal of Membrane Science	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	22
-	Corrosion Science	22
-	Nano Today	22
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	22
-	Polymer Reviews	22
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	22
63	npj Computational Materials	21
-	Matter	21
-	Nano Research	21
-	International Journal of Production Economics	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	21
-	Regenerative Biomaterials	21
-	Acta Materialia	21
70	Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Medicine	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	20
-	Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	20
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	20
-	Rare Metals	20
78	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	19
-	Building and Environment	19
-	Journal of Materials Processing Technology	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	19
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	19
-	Composite Structures	19
84	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	npj Regenerative Medicine	18
-	Pattern Recognition	18
-	Construction and Building Materials	18
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
90	npj Quantum Information	17
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	17
-	Nano Letters	17
-	Journal of Power Sources	17
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	17
-	Expert Systems With Applications	17
-	Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology	17
-	ACS Sensors	17
-	New Carbon Materials	17
-	Materials & Design	17
-	International Journal of Fatigue	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	17
-	Composites Communications	17
-	Biofabrication	17
-	Energy and Buildings	17
105	Journal of the European Ceramic Society	16
-	Journal of Manufacturing Processes	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	16
-	Biomaterials Research	16
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	16
-	Small	16
-	Polymer Degradation and Stability	16
-	Tissue Engineering Part B-Reviews	16
-	ACS Materials Letters	16
-	Advanced Science	16
117	Materials Today Physics	15
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	Scripta Materialia	15
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	15
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	15
-	Science China-Materials	15
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	15
-	Journal of Tissue Engineering	15
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	15
-	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	15
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	15
-	Stem Cell Reports	15
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	15
-	Progress in Biomaterials	15
-	IEEE Systems Journal	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15
135	Materials Research Letters	14
-	Materials Today Advances	14
-	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials	14
-	International Journal of Production Research	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	14
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	14
-	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	14
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	14
-	Biosensors-Basel	14
-	Materials Horizons	14
-	npj Quantum Materials	14
-	NanoImpact	14
-	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials	14
-	Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T	14
-	Stem Cell Research & Therapy	14
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	14
-	IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics	14
-	CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry	14
156	Materials Characterization	13
-	Materials Today Energy	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	13
-	Polymer Testing	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	13
-	Hydrometallurgy	13
-	Production Planning & Control	13
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	13
-	Progress in Natural Science-Materials International	13
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	13
-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	13
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	Automatica	13
-	Building Simulation	13
-	Materials Research Bulletin	13
-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	13
-	International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials	13
-	Internet of Things	13

-	Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy	13
-	Journal of Nanomaterials	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	13
-	Surface Science Reports	13
-	Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China	13
-	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	13
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	13
184	NDT & E International	12
-	Materials Chemistry Frontiers	12
-	Journal of Construction Engineering and Management	12
-	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology	12
-	Small Methods	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	12
-	Plasmonics	12
-	FlatChem	12
-	Polymers	12
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	12
-	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	12
-	ACS Applied Nano Materials	12
-	ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering	12
-	Computer Communications	12

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