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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	77
2	Nano-Micro Letters	67
3	Nature Reviews Materials	59
4	Progress in Polymer Science	57
5	Nature Nanotechnology	53
6	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	52
-	Joule	52
-	Nature Energy	52
9	International Materials Reviews	50
10	Cell Stem Cell	43
-	Nano Energy	43
12	Nature Materials	41
13	Advanced Materials	40
-	Advanced Fiber Materials	40
15	Energy Storage Materials	39
16	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	38
-	Advanced Energy Materials	38
18	ACS Energy Letters	37
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	37
20	Nature Electronics	34
21	Composites Part B-Engineering	33
-	Biomaterials	33
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	33
-	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	33
25	Cement and Concrete Research	32
-	Materials Today	32
-	Carbon Energy	32
-	npj Flexible Electronics	32
29	Carbohydrate Polymers	31
-	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	31
31	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	30
-	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	30
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	30
34	International Journal of Plasticity	29
35	InfoMat	28
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	28
-	ACS Nano	28
-	Automation in Construction	28
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	28
40	eTransportation	27
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	27
-	Nano Convergence	27
43	Advanced Functional Materials	26
-	Bioactive Materials	26
-	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	26
46	NPG Asia Materials	25
-	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	25
48	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	24
-	Carbon	24
-	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	24

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

-	Surface Science Reports	13
-	Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China	13
-	Building Simulation	13
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	Automatica	13
-	Biochip Journal	13
-	International Journal of Production Research	13
-	Materials Today Energy	13
-	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials	13
-	Materials Characterization	13
187	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	12
-	FlatChem	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	12
-	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits	12
-	Small Methods	12
-	Plasmonics	12
-	Polymers	12
-	Cellulose	12
-	ACS Photonics	12
-	Ceramics International	12
-	Biomaterials Science	12
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	12

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