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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	85
2	Nano-Micro Letters	65
3	Joule	57
4	Nature Nanotechnology	55
5	Nature Reviews Materials	54
6	Progress in Polymer Science	53
7	Nature Energy	51
8	Nature Materials	46
9	Nano Energy	44
10	Advanced Materials	43
-	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	43
12	Advanced Fiber Materials	42
13	Cell Stem Cell	41
14	Advanced Energy Materials	40
15	International Materials Reviews	39
16	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	38
17	ACS Energy Letters	37
18	Carbon Energy	35
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	35
20	International Journal of Plasticity	34
21	Cement and Concrete Research	33
22	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	32
-	npj Flexible Electronics	32
24	eTransportation	31
-	ACS Nano	31
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	31
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	31
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	31
-	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	31
30	Energy Storage Materials	30
-	Materials Today	30
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	30
-	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	30
34	Automation in Construction	29
-	Composites Part B-Engineering	29
-	NPG Asia Materials	29
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	29
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	29
-	Biomaterials	29
40	InfoMat	28
-	Nature Electronics	28
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	28
-	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	28
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	28
45	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	27
-	Nano Convergence	27
-	Advanced Functional Materials	27
48	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
-	Composites Science and Technology	26
50	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	25

-	Carbon	25
-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	25
-	Polymer Reviews	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	25
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25
57	Progress in Biomaterials	24
-	Bioactive Materials	24
-	Corrosion Science	24
60	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	23
-	International Journal of Production Economics	23
-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	23
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	23
64	Matter	22
-	Nano Today	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	22
-	Acta Biomaterialia	22
-	Acta Materialia	22
70	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	21
-	Journal of Membrane Science	21
-	Nano Research	21
74	npj Computational Materials	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	20
-	Energy & Environmental Materials	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	20
79	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	19
-	Expert Systems With Applications	19
-	Biomaterials Research	19
-	ACS Sensors	19
-	Composite Structures	19
-	Journal of Materials Processing Technology	19
-	International Journal of Fatigue	19
-	Rare Metals	19
-	Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing	19
-	Construction and Building Materials	19
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	19
90	Building and Environment	18
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	18
-	Nano Letters	18
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	18
-	ACS Materials Letters	18
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	Pattern Recognition	18
-	Journal of Manufacturing Processes	18
-	Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology	18
101	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials	17
-	Composites Communications	17
-	IEEE Systems Journal	17
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	17
-	Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T	17
-	Internet of Things	17
-	Journal of Tissue Engineering	17
-	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	17
-	Small	17
-	Polymer Degradation and Stability	17
-	Journal of the European Ceramic Society	17
-	npj Regenerative Medicine	17
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	17
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	17
115	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	16
-	Energy and Buildings	16
-	Biosensors-Basel	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	16
-	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	16
-	Journal of Power Sources	16
-	New Carbon Materials	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	16
-	Advanced Science	16
-	npj Quantum Information	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
127	Engineering Failure Analysis	15
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	Materials & Design	15
-	Materials Horizons	15
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	15
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	15
-	Biofabrication	15
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	15
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	15
-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	15
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	15
-	Plasmonics	15
-	Materials Research Letters	15
-	Progress in Natural Science-Materials International	15
146	Biochip Journal	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	Building Simulation	14
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	14
-	CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology	14
-	Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	14
-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	14
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	14
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	14
-	Stem Cell Reports	14
-	Stem Cell Research & Therapy	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	European Polymer Journal	14
-	Hydrometallurgy	14
-	IEEE Wireless Communications	14
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	14
-	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	14
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	14
-	International Journal of Production Research	14
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	14
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	14
-	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	14
-	Materials Today Physics	14
-	Science China-Materials	14
-	Scripta Materialia	14
-	Polymers	14
-	Polymer Testing	14
-	Production Planning & Control	14

-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	14
177	Automatica	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery	13
-	Heritage Science	13
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	13
-	ACS Applied Nano Materials	13
-	Ceramics International	13
-	IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials	13
-	npj Quantum Materials	13
-	Materials Research Bulletin	13
-	Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	13
-	Batteries-Basel	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	13
-	FlatChem	13
-	Gels	13
-	IEEE Network	13
-	Computers & Electrical Engineering	13
-	NanoImpact	13
-	Nanomaterials	13
-	Materials Characterization	13
-	Materials Chemistry Frontiers	13

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