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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	82
2	Nano-Micro Letters	69
3	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	55
-	Nature Reviews Materials	55
5	Nature Nanotechnology	54
-	Progress in Polymer Science	54
-	Joule	54
8	Nature Energy	53
9	Cell Stem Cell	44
10	Nano Energy	43
11	Nature Materials	42
12	Advanced Fiber Materials	41
13	Advanced Materials	40
14	Energy Storage Materials	39
-	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	39
-	Advanced Energy Materials	39
-	International Materials Reviews	39
18	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	38
19	ACS Energy Letters	37
20	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	35
21	npj Flexible Electronics	34
-	Nature Electronics	34
23	Composites Part B-Engineering	33
-	Carbon Energy	33
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	33
26	Cement and Concrete Research	32
-	Biomaterials	32
-	Materials Today	32
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	32
30	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	31
-	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	31
32	International Journal of Plasticity	30
-	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	30
34	Sustainable Cities and Society	29
-	eTransportation	29
-	ACS Nano	29
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	29
38	Automation in Construction	28
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	28
40	Nano Convergence	27
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	27
-	InfoMat	27
43	Advanced Functional Materials	26
-	Bioactive Materials	26
-	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	26
-	NPG Asia Materials	26
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	26
48	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25
49	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	24
-	Carbon	24

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

-	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials	13
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	13
-	Materials Research Bulletin	13
-	Plasmonics	13
-	Polymer Testing	13
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	13
-	IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics	13
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing	13
-	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	13
-	ACS Applied Nano Materials	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	Automatica	13
-	Biochip Journal	13
-	Building Simulation	13
-	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	13
192	Nanophotonics	12
-	Macromolecules	12
-	NDT & E International	12
-	FlatChem	12
-	Gels	12
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	12
-	IEEE Wireless Communications	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	12

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