Materials Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor
1	Nature Reviews Materials	ca. 83.5
2	Nature Energy	ca. 56.7
3	Nature Materials	ca. 41.2
4	Joule	ca. 39.8
5	Nature Nanotechnology	ca. 38.3
6	Progress in Materials Science	ca. 37.4
7	Nature Electronics	ca. 34.3
8	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	ca. 31
9	Advanced Materials	ca. 29.4
10	Advanced Energy Materials	ca. 27.8
11	Progress in Polymer Science	ca. 27.1
12	Nano-Micro Letters	ca. 26.6
13	Materials Today	ca. 24.2
14	Cell Stem Cell	ca. 23.9
15	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	ca. 23.6
16	InfoMat	ca. 22.7
17	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	ca. 22.6
18	ACS Energy Letters	ca. 22
19	Proceedings of the IEEE	ca. 20.6
20	Carbon Energy	ca. 20.5
21	Energy Storage Materials	ca. 20.4
22	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	ca. 20.1
23	Advanced Functional Materials	ca. 19
24	Bioactive Materials	ca. 18.9
-	Matter	ca. 18.9
26	Nano Energy	ca. 17.6
-	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	ca. 17.6
28	Nano Today	ca. 17.4
29	ACS Nano	ca. 17.1
30	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	ca. 16.9
31	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	ca. 16.4
32	International Materials Reviews	ca. 16.1
-	Advanced Fiber Materials	ca. 16.1
34	Advanced Science	ca. 15.1
35	Energy & Environmental Materials	ca. 15
36	IEEE Signal Processing Magazine	ca. 14.9
37	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	ca. 14.7
38	npj Flexible Electronics	ca. 14.6
39	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	ca. 14
-	Biomaterials	ca. 14
41	Materials Horizons	ca. 13.3
-	Small	ca. 13.3
43	Composites Part B-Engineering	ca. 13.1
-	Polymer Reviews	ca. 13.1
45	IEEE Wireless Communications	ca. 12.9
46	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	ca. 12.6
47	Small Methods	ca. 12.4
48	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	ca. 12.1
49	International Journal of Production Economics	ca. 12
50	eTransportation	ca. 11.9

-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	ca. 11.9
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	ca. 11.9
53	Nano Convergence	ca. 11.7
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	ca. 11.7
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	ca. 11.7
56	Materials Today Physics	ca. 11.5
57	Cement and Concrete Research	ca. 11.4
-	ACS Materials Letters	ca. 11.4
59	Biomaterials Research	ca. 11.3
60	IEEE Communications Magazine	ca. 11.2
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	ca. 11.2
62	Additive Manufacturing	ca. 11
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	ca. 11
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	ca. 11
-	Laser & Photonics Reviews	ca. 11
66	Carbon	ca. 10.9
-	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	ca. 10.9
68	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	ca. 10.8
-	Nano Letters	ca. 10.8
70	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	ca. 10.6
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	ca. 10.6
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	ca. 10.6
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	ca. 10.6
74	Cement & Concrete Composites	ca. 10.5
75	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	ca. 10.4
-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	ca. 10.4
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	ca. 10.4
78	Automation in Construction	ca. 10.3
-	Materials Today Nano	ca. 10.3
80	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	ca. 10.2
81	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	ca. 10.1
82	Materials Today Advances	ca. 10
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	ca. 10
84	Nano Research	ca. 9.9
85	International Journal of Plasticity	ca. 9.8
-	Surface Science Reports	ca. 9.8
87	npj Computational Materials	ca. 9.7
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	ca. 9.7
-	Nanoscale Horizons	ca. 9.7
-	NPG Asia Materials	ca. 9.7
-	Acta Biomaterialia	ca. 9.7
92	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	ca. 9.6
-	Sustainable Materials and Technologies	ca. 9.6
-	Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	ca. 9.6
95	Journal of Membrane Science	ca. 9.5
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	ca. 9.5
97	Journal of Materiomics	ca. 9.4
-	Acta Materialia	ca. 9.4
99	IEEE Network	ca. 9.3
-	Materials Today Energy	ca. 9.3
101	Journal of Power Sources	ca. 9.2
-	International Journal of Production Research	ca. 9.2
103	Composites Science and Technology	ca. 9.1
104	Advanced Optical Materials	ca. 9
-	Biofabrication	ca. 9
106	ACS Sensors	ca. 8.9
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	ca. 8.9
108	Rare Metals	ca. 8.8
-	Science China-Information Sciences	ca. 8.8
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	ca. 8.8
111	Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing	ca. 8.7
112	Chemistry of Materials	ca. 8.6
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	ca. 8.6
114	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry	ca. 8.5
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	ca. 8.5
-	Expert Systems With Applications	ca. 8.5
117	Materials & Design	ca. 8.4
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	ca. 8.4
119	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	ca. 8.3
-	Corrosion Science	ca. 8.3
-	Applied Materials Today	ca. 8.3
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	ca. 8.3
-	Production Planning & Control	ca. 8.3
-	Materials Research Letters	ca. 8.3
125	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	ca. 8.2
-	Journal of Tissue Engineering	ca. 8.2
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	ca. 8.2
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	ca. 8.2
-	Materials Today Bio	ca. 8.2
130	IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine	ca. 8.1
-	Science China-Materials	ca. 8.1
132	Pattern Recognition	ca. 8
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	ca. 8
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	ca. 8
-	Journal of Science-Advanced Materials and Devices	ca. 8
-	Composites Communications	ca. 8
137	Solar RRL	ca. 7.9
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	ca. 7.9
139	Materials Today Sustainability	ca. 7.8
140	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	ca. 7.7
141	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	ca. 7.6
-	npj Quantum Information	ca. 7.6
143	Stem Cell Research & Therapy	ca. 7.5
-	Nanophotonics	ca. 7.5
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing	ca. 7.5
146	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	ca. 7.4
-	Building and Environment	ca. 7.4
-	Construction and Building Materials	ca. 7.4
149	Materials Today Chemistry	ca. 7.3
-	Environmental Science-Nano	ca. 7.3
151	npj Regenerative Medicine	ca. 7.2
152	Advanced Sustainable Systems	ca. 7.1
-	CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems	ca. 7.1
154	Journal of Materials Chemistry B	ca. 7
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	ca. 7
-	Materials Chemistry Frontiers	ca. 7
-	ACS Photonics	ca. 7
158	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	ca. 6.9
-	IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine	ca. 6.9
-	Journal of Physics-Energy	ca. 6.9
-	Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology	ca. 6.9
162	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	ca. 6.8
-	Advanced Materials Technologies	ca. 6.8
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	ca. 6.8
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	ca. 6.8
166	Applied Surface Science	ca. 6.7
-	Progress in Photovoltaics	ca. 6.7
-	Energy and Buildings	ca. 6.7
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	ca. 6.7
-	Nanoscale	ca. 6.7
-	Regenerative Biomaterials	ca. 6.7
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	ca. 6.7
173	Progress in Organic Coatings	ca. 6.6
-	Biomaterials Science	ca. 6.6
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	ca. 6.6

-	Tsinghua Science and Technology	ca. 6.6
177	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	ca. 6.4
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	ca. 6.4
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry C	ca. 6.4
-	Tissue Engineering Part B-Reviews	ca. 6.4
-	IEEE Intelligent Systems	ca. 6.4
-	Automatica	ca. 6.4
-	Progress in Surface Science	ca. 6.4
-	Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T	ca. 6.4
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	ca. 6.4
-	Journal of Building Engineering	ca. 6.4
187	Composite Structures	ca. 6.3
-	Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy	ca. 6.3
-	Journal of Materials Processing Technology	ca. 6.3
-	IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine	ca. 6.3
-	IEEE Wireless Communications Letters	ca. 6.3
192	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	ca. 6.2
-	FlatChem	ca. 6.2
-	Journal of Manufacturing Processes	ca. 6.2
-	Advanced Electronic Materials	ca. 6.2
-	Case Studies in Construction Materials	ca. 6.2
-	Surfaces and Interfaces	ca. 6.2
-	Biomacromolecules	ca. 6.2
199	Lab on a Chip	ca. 6.1
-	Journal of Applied Crystallography	ca. 6.1

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