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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Progress in Materials Science	89
2	Nano-Micro Letters	66
3	Joule	58
4	Nature Reviews Materials	54
-	Nature Nanotechnology	54
6	Progress in Polymer Science	52
7	Nature Energy	47
8	Nature Materials	45
9	Journal of Materials Science & Technology	44
-	Advanced Materials	44
11	Advanced Fiber Materials	42
-	Nano Energy	42
13	Cell Stem Cell	41
14	International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture	40
-	Advanced Energy Materials	40
16	ACS Energy Letters	37
-	Cement & Concrete Composites	37
18	International Journal of Plasticity	35
19	Cement and Concrete Research	34
20	International Materials Reviews	33
-	eTransportation	33
-	Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports	33
-	Carbon Energy	33
24	NPG Asia Materials	32
-	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing	32
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	32
-	ACS Nano	32
-	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	32
29	Journal of Advanced Ceramics	31
-	Automation in Construction	31
-	Carbohydrate Polymers	31
-	Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science	31
33	Sustainable Cities and Society	30
-	Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems	30
35	Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry	29
-	Energy Storage Materials	29
-	Composites Part B-Engineering	29
-	Materials Today	29
-	Journal of Magnesium and Alloys	29
40	Nano Convergence	28
-	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	28
-	Advanced Functional Materials	28
-	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics	28
-	Biomaterials	28
45	Nature Electronics	27
-	InfoMat	27
-	Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials	27
-	npj Flexible Electronics	27
49	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications	26
-	Progress in Biomaterials	26

-	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	26
-	Biosensors & Bioelectronics	26
53	Journal of Nanobiotechnology	25
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	25
-	Carbon	25
-	Composites Science and Technology	25
-	Corrosion Science	25
58	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials	24
-	International Journal of Production Economics	24
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	24
-	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid	24
-	Bioactive Materials	24
63	Nano Today	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	23
-	Polymer Reviews	23
-	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	23
-	Acta Biomaterialia	23
-	Acta Materialia	23
69	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	22
-	Matter	22
-	Journal of Membrane Science	22
72	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems	21
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology	21
74	Rare Metals	20
-	npj Computational Materials	20
-	Expert Systems With Applications	20
-	Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	20
-	Construction and Building Materials	20
80	Nano Research	19
-	Pattern Recognition	19
-	Journal of Manufacturing Processes	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology	19
-	Biomaterials Research	19
-	Building and Environment	19
-	ACS Sensors	19
-	Composite Structures	19
-	Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology	19
-	International Journal of Fatigue	19
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	19
-	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	19
-	Journal of Materials Processing Technology	19
-	Internet of Things	19
-	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	19
-	Energy & Environmental Materials	19
-	ACS Materials Letters	19
-	Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing	19
98	Journal of the European Ceramic Society	18
-	Nano Letters	18
-	Small	18
-	Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing	18
-	Energy and Buildings	18
-	Virtual and Physical Prototyping	18
-	Journal of Tissue Engineering	18
-	npj 2D Materials and Applications	18
-	npj Regenerative Medicine	18
-	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces	18
-	Applied Surface Science	18
109	Plasmonics	17
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	17
-	Journal of Power Sources	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	17
-	IEEE Systems Journal	17
-	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	17
-	Biosensors-Basel	17
-	Composites Communications	17
-	Microsystems & Nanoengineering	17
-	Polymer Degradation and Stability	17
-	International Journal of Nanomedicine	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics	17
-	Advanced Science	17
123	Proceedings of the IEEE	16
-	Progress in Natural Science-Materials International	16
-	New Carbon Materials	16
-	Materials Research Letters	16
-	Journal of Materials Chemistry A	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	16
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	16
-	Engineering Failure Analysis	16
-	Advanced Healthcare Materials	16
-	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells	16
-	Materials Horizons	16
-	Journal of Materials Research and Technology-JMR&T	16
-	Journal of Materiomics	16
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing	16
-	IEEE Wireless Communications	16
-	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters	16
-	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	16
140	Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER	15
-	Optical and Quantum Electronics	15
-	Surface & Coatings Technology	15
-	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	15
-	Heritage Science	15
-	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	15
-	Chemistry of Materials	15
-	Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering	15
-	Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids	15
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	15
-	Scripta Materialia	15
-	Materials & Design	15
-	npj Quantum Information	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology	15
-	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	15
-	Batteries-Basel	15
-	Biofabrication	15
159	Production Planning & Control	14
-	Materials Characterization	14
-	npj Materials Degradation	14
-	Polymers	14
-	Polymer Testing	14
-	Materials Today Physics	14
-	International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems	14
-	International Journal of Production Research	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	Building Simulation	14
-	ACS Applied Nano Materials	14
-	CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology	14
-	Biochip Journal	14
-	Science China-Materials	14
-	International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials	14
-	Journal of Alloys and Compounds	14
-	Hydrometallurgy	14

-	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Communications	14
-	Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
181	Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China	13
-	Materials Chemistry Frontiers	13
-	Stem Cell Reports	13
-	Stem Cell Research & Therapy	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery	13
-	IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics	13
-	ACS Applied Energy Materials	13
-	ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering	13
-	Ceramics International	13
-	Advanced Optical Materials	13
-	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry	13
-	Automatica	13
-	Biomacromolecules	13
-	Laser & Photonics Reviews	13
-	NanoImpact	13
-	Nanomaterials	13
-	Materials Research Bulletin	13
-	Gels	13
-	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits	13
-	IEEE Network	13

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