New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Materials Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(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 Papers
1 Applied Sciences-Basel51790
2 IEEE Access42453
3 Sensors36080
4 Materials30229
5 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules26129
6 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces23823
7 Journal of Alloys and Compounds22319
8 Ceramics International19416
9 Electronics18694
10 Polymers17903
11 Construction and Building Materials17795
12 Advanced Functional Materials16460
13 Small14837
14 IEEE Sensors Journal14202
15 Advanced Materials12712
16 Buildings12476
17 Nanomaterials12371
18 Applied Surface Science12324
19 Expert Systems With Applications11711
20 Advanced Science11508
21 Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T11370
22 Materials Today Communications10757
23 IEEE Internet of Things Journal10707
24 Journal of Building Engineering10585
25 Journal of Materials Chemistry A10157
26 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing9991
27 Journal of Physical Chemistry C9904
28 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement9672
29 ACS Nano9564
30 ACS Applied Nano Materials8951
31 Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics8685
32 Langmuir8671
33 International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology8374
34 Materials Letters7974
35 Micromachines7581
36 Journal of Materials Chemistry C7409
37 Metals7367
38 Nanoscale7327
39 Coatings7236
40 Nano Letters7234
41 Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters6809
42 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology6646
43 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems6534
44 Journal of Applied Polymer Science6465
45 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics6339
46 AIP Advances6318
47 Journal of Power Sources6275
48 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics6124
49 Crystals6030
50 Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing5911
51 ACS Applied Energy Materials5879
52 Materials Chemistry and Physics5745
53 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence5707
54 Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance5588
55 Optical Materials5513
56 Surfaces and Interfaces5447
57 Journal of the Electrochemical Society5192
58 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation5005
59 Acta Crystallographica A-Foundation and Advances4975
60 Carbohydrate Polymers4910
61 Advanced Energy Materials4898
62 Advanced Optical Materials4886
63 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices4841
64 Journal of Materials Science4820
65 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems4810
66 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters4757
67 ACS Applied Polymer Materials4654
68 Materials & Design4615
69 Building and Environment4587
70 Journal of Lightwave Technology4548
71 Advanced Healthcare Materials4533
72 Multimedia Tools and Applications4532
73 Composite Structures4374
74 Macromolecules4356
75 Case Studies in Construction Materials4345
76 CMC-Computers Materials & Continua4292
77 Carbon4270
78 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing4262
79 Surface & Coatings Technology4256
80 Polymer4221
81 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials4202
82 Polymer Composites4175
83 Machines4159
84 Nano Research4156
85 Energy and Buildings4150
86 Chemistry of Materials4133
87 Journal of Membrane Science4111
88 IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity4050
89 Microscopy and Microanalysis4018
90 Nano Energy4000
91 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications3973
92 Journal of Materials Chemistry B3969
93 Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing3958
94 Journal of Manufacturing Processes3938
95 Diamond and Related Materials3841
96 Engineering Failure Analysis3788
97 Electric Power Systems Research3773
98 Soft Matter3728
99 Crystal Growth & Design3666
100 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs3651
101 Materials Characterization3645
102 Vacuum3623
103 Sustainable Cities and Society3621
104 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications3616
105 Biosensors-Basel3613
106 Journal of Materials Science & Technology3588
107 Biosensors & Bioelectronics3580
108 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems3576
109 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology3557
110 Advanced Engineering Materials3530
111 Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing3520
112 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control3508
113 Advanced Materials Interfaces3487
114 Acta Materialia3467
115 Results in Physics3463
116 Physica B-Condensed Matter3451
117 Gels3434
118 Sensors and Actuators A-Physical3427
119 Journal of the European Ceramic Society3395
120 CrystEngComm3337
121 Advanced Materials Technologies3333
122 IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters3308
- ACS Applied Electronic Materials3308
124 Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing3296
125 Nanotechnology3264
126 Pattern Recognition3258
127 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems3170
128 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence3138
129 European Polymer Journal3111
130 Membranes3109
131 Corrosion Science3073
132 Dyes and Pigments3048
133 Composites Part B-Engineering3034
134 Journal of Electronic Materials3033
135 Cytotherapy3011
136 Materials Research Express2984
137 IEEE Transactions on Communications2979
138 Computational Materials Science2966
139 Optical and Quantum Electronics2937
140 Acta Biomaterialia2916
141 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification2881
142 Energy Storage Materials2855
143 Journal of the American Ceramic Society2852
144 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters2830
145 Journal of Supercomputing2810
146 Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter2784
147 JOM2776
148 IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques2736
149 Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials2733
150 Small Methods2721
151 Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics2688
- Computers & Electrical Engineering2688
153 Progress in Organic Coatings2685
154 IEEE Electron Device Letters2678
155 IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics2662
156 Journal of Nanobiotechnology2626
157 Additive Manufacturing2624
158 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers2614
159 Physical Review Materials2580
160 Cellulose2572
161 Laser & Photonics Reviews2556
162 Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces2548
163 International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control2536
164 Signal Image and Video Processing2511
- Journal of Constructional Steel Research2511
166 ACS Energy Letters2500
167 Journal of Nuclear Materials2489
168 Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering2413
169 Nanoscale Advances2400
170 Polymer Chemistry2399
171 Materials Today Chemistry2372
172 Ionics2358
173 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems2353
174 ACS Sensors2349
175 Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures2339
176 IEEE Transactions on Magnetics2330
177 International Journal of Nanomedicine2325
178 Automatica2321
179 Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology2316
180 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids2299
181 IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics2292
182 Frontiers in Materials2284
183 International Journal of Fatigue2271
184 ACS Photonics2269
185 Biomacromolecules2268
186 Automation in Construction2225
187 Bioresources2222
188 Computer Networks2217
189 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory2216
190 IEEE Signal Processing Letters2210
191 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering2201
192 Materials Horizons2198
193 Biomimetics2168
194 IEEE Communications Magazine2163
195 Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing2160
196 Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells2156
197 Scripta Materialia2148
198 Silicon2130
199 Biomaterials Science2101
200 Solar RRL2090
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