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

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	89
2	Nano-Micro Letters	73
3	Progress in Polymer Science	58
4	Joule	57
5	Nature Reviews Materials	56
6	Nature Nanotechnology	53
7	Nature Energy	51
8	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	50
9	Cell Stem Cell	46
10	Nature Materials	44
11	Advanced Fiber Materials	43
-	Nano Energy	43
13	Advanced Materials	41
14	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	40
-	Advanced Energy Materials	40
16	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	37
-	ACS Energy Letters	37
18	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	36
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	36
20	npj Flexible Electronics	34
-	Carbon Energy	34
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	34
-	Energy Storage Materials	34
24	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	33
-	International Materials Reviews	33
26	International Journal of Plasticity	32
-	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	32
-	Cement and Concrete Research	32
-	Biomaterials	32
30	Nano Convergence	31
31	Carbohydrate Polymers	30
-	Nature Electronics	30
-	NPG Asia Materials	30
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	30
-	Composites Part B-Engineering	30
36	InfoMat	29
-	ACS Nano	29
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	29
-	Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Medicine	29
40	Materials Today	28
-	Automation in Construction	28
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	28
-	eTransportation	28
44	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	27
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	27
46	Composites Science and Technology	26
-	Advanced Functional Materials	26
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
-	Carbon	26
50	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25

-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	25
-	Polymer Reviews	25
53	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	24
-	Energy & Environmental Materials	24
-	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	24
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	24
-	Bioactive Materials	24
58	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	23
-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	23
-	Corrosion Science	23
-	Nano Today	23
-	Acta Biomaterialia	23
64	Matter	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	22
-	International Journal of Production Economics	22
-	npj Computational Materials	22
-	Journal of Membrane Science	22
-	Progress in Biomaterials	22
71	Progress in Quantum Electronics	21
-	Nano Research	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	21
-	Acta Materialia	21
75	Nanophotonics	20
-	Pattern Recognition	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	20
-	Proceedings of the IEEE	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	20
-	Rare Metals	20
81	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	19
-	Expert Systems With Applications	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	19
-	Journal of Materials Processing Technology	19
-	Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing	19
-	Construction and Building Materials	19
-	Building and Environment	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	19
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	19
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	19
-	Composite Structures	19
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	19
94	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	18
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology	18
-	ACS Sensors	18
-	Biomaterials Research	18
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
101	Journal of Tissue Engineering	17
-	Nano Letters	17
-	Materials Horizons	17
-	npj Quantum Information	17
-	npj Regenerative Medicine	17
-	International Journal of Fatigue	17
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	17
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	17
-	New Carbon Materials	17
-	Small	17
-	ACS Materials Letters	17
112	IEEE Systems Journal	16
-	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials	16
-	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	16
-	Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T	16
-	International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
-	NanoImpact	16
-	npj Quantum Materials	16
-	Journal of the European Ceramic Society	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	16
-	Journal of Power Sources	16
-	Journal of Manufacturing Processes	16
-	Polymer Degradation and Stability	16
-	Tissue Engineering Part B-Reviews	16
-	Chemistry of Materials	16
-	Advanced Science	16
-	Biofabrication	16
-	Energy and Buildings	16
130	Materials & Design	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	15
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	15
-	Internet of Things	15
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	15
-	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	15
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	15
-	Science China-Materials	15
-	Scripta Materialia	15
-	Biosensors-Basel	15
-	Materials Research Letters	15
-	Journal of Materiomics	15
-	Regenerative Biomaterials	15
-	Composites Communications	15
145	Materials Research Bulletin	14
-	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy	14
-	Journal of Nanomaterials	14
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	14
-	Polymer Testing	14
-	Progress in Natural Science-Materials International	14
-	Plasmonics	14
-	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	14
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	14
-	Biochip Journal	14
-	Materials Chemistry Frontiers	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	14
-	Hydrometallurgy	14
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	14
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	14
-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	14
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	14
-	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	14
-	International Journal of Production Research	14
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	14
-	Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China	14
-	Stem Cell Reports	14
-	Stem Cell Research & Therapy	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	14
175	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	13

-	IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing	13
-	IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics	13
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing	13
-	Polymers	13
-	Production Planning & Control	13
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	13
-	ACS Applied Nano Materials	13
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	Computer Communications	13
-	Computers & Electrical Engineering	13
-	Automatica	13
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	13
-	Building Simulation	13
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	13
-	Materials Characterization	13
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	13
-	Materials Today Physics	13
-	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	13
-	European Polymer Journal	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	13
-	FlatChem	13
-	Surface Science Reports	13

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