New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Materials Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Progress in Materials Science59.804
2 Nature Nanotechnology44.088
3 Progress in Polymer Science40.383
4 Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics37.910
5 Nature Materials36.101
6 Advanced Materials32.048
7 Journal of Materials Science & Technology29.346
8 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence28.687
9 Cell Stem Cell28.651
10 Journal of Manufacturing Systems28.436
11 International Materials Reviews28.390
12 Advanced Energy Materials27.821
13 Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports27.154
14 International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture26.577
15 Biomaterials25.427
16 Materials Today25.416
17 NPG Asia Materials25.279
18 Composites Part B-Engineering25.084
19 Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing24.172
20 Cement & Concrete Composites23.712
21 Cement and Concrete Research23.711
22 ACS Nano23.340
23 Proceedings of the IEEE22.746
24 Carbohydrate Polymers22.625
25 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications22.471
26 Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science22.020
27 Automation in Construction21.257
28 Advanced Functional Materials20.086
29 International Journal of Plasticity19.605
30 Biosensors & Bioelectronics19.207
31 Carbon18.977
32 International Journal of Production Economics18.393
33 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems18.085
34 Journal of Nanobiotechnology18.021
35 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid18.000
36 Nano Today17.998
37 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing17.596
38 Acta Biomaterialia17.283
39 Composites Science and Technology16.970
40 Nano Research16.604
41 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems16.545
42 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing16.530
43 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging16.462
44 Journal of Membrane Science16.234
45 Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences16.011
46 Polymer Reviews15.939
47 Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Medicine15.842
48 Corrosion Science15.806
49 Acta Materialia15.620
50 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering15.417
51 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.408
52 Pattern Recognition15.211
53 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics14.655
54 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications14.536
55 Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing14.516
56 Rare Metals14.487
57 Expert Systems With Applications14.335
58 Composite Structures14.232
59 Progress in Quantum Electronics14.034
60 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology13.957
61 Materials & Design13.953
62 Building and Environment13.927
63 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces13.842
64 Construction and Building Materials13.793
65 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems13.781
66 Journal of Materials Processing Technology13.705
67 International Journal of Production Research13.418
68 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering13.330
69 Nano Letters13.294
70 Applied Surface Science13.254
71 Small12.911
72 Journal of Power Sources12.857
73 Energy and Buildings12.803
74 Journal of the European Ceramic Society12.498
75 Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing12.444
76 Journal of Manufacturing Processes12.335
77 IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems12.333
78 International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials12.309
79 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics12.262
80 Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology12.231
81 International Journal of Fatigue12.224
82 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems12.213
83 Polymer Degradation and Stability12.152
84 Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells12.134
85 IEEE Wireless Communications12.082
86 Chemistry of Materials11.880
87 IEEE Systems Journal11.804
88 International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials11.753
89 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology11.734
90 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence11.730
91 Tissue Engineering Part B-Reviews11.690
92 Stem Cell Research & Therapy11.661
93 New Carbon Materials11.647
94 Biofabrication11.645
95 Progress in Photovoltaics11.538
96 Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces11.506
97 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11.366
98 Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management11.352
99 Surface Science Reports11.333
100 IEEE Transactions on Communications11.328
101 Scripta Materialia11.202
102 Production Planning & Control11.140
103 CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology11.139
104 Journal of Alloys and Compounds10.984
105 Automatica10.881
106 Tsinghua Science and Technology10.778
107 Materials Research Bulletin10.739
108 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control10.674
109 IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics10.658
110 Journal of Tissue Engineering10.602
111 Surface & Coatings Technology10.516
112 Polymer Testing10.485
113 Production and Operations Management10.466
114 Journal of Nanomaterials10.247
115 International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials10.223
116 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules10.181
117 Laser & Photonics Reviews10.174
118 IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion10.168
119 Computer Communications10.122
120 Applied Clay Science10.077
121 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology10.061
122 Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing9.982
123 Computers & Electrical Engineering9.911
124 Virtual and Physical Prototyping9.894
125 Hydrometallurgy9.817
126 Multimedia Tools and Applications9.780
127 Microporous and Mesoporous Materials9.725
128 European Polymer Journal9.665
129 International Journal of Nanomedicine9.637
130 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation9.546
131 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids9.533
132 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids9.512
133 Engineering Failure Analysis9.361
134 Science and Technology of Advanced Materials9.340
135 Biochip Journal9.271
136 Progress in Natural Science-Materials International9.259
137 Materials Chemistry and Physics9.199
138 Ceramics International9.192
139 Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China9.095
140 IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security9.088
141 Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER9.066
142 Reactive & Functional Polymers9.064
143 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology9.024
144 IEEE Network8.945
145 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing8.839
146 Materials Characterization8.815
- Macromolecules8.815
148 Indoor Air8.813
149 Journal of Construction Engineering and Management8.798
150 Optical and Quantum Electronics8.759
151 Computer Networks8.757
152 Dyes and Pigments8.751
153 Plasmonics8.734
154 Biomacromolecules8.713
155 IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery8.653
156 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters8.624
157 Building Simulation8.603
158 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine8.589
159 Cellulose8.584
160 Applied Artificial Intelligence8.540
- Carbon Letters8.540
162 Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering8.516
163 Sensors and Actuators A-Physical8.434
164 Control Engineering Practice8.373
165 Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine8.350
166 Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing8.228
167 Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters8.223
168 Progress in Surface Science8.214
169 International Journal of Polymer Science8.184
170 Particuology8.178
171 Journal of Polymers and the Environment8.151
172 Synthetic Metals8.150
173 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering8.130
174 Journal of Bionic Engineering8.115
175 Design Studies8.110
176 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits8.067
177 IET Nanobiotechnology8.008
178 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications7.981
179 NDT & E International7.967
180 Electric Power Systems Research7.940
181 Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials7.936
182 Materials and Manufacturing Processes7.928
183 Intermetallics7.859
184 Structural Control & Health Monitoring7.837
185 Sensors7.830
186 International Journal of Refractory Metals & Hard Materials7.828
187 Science China-Information Sciences7.778
188 IEEE Transactions on Reliability7.764
189 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials7.699
190 Diamond and Related Materials7.658
191 Journal of Constructional Steel Research7.505
192 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine7.486
193 Optical Materials7.485
194 IEEE Transactions on Computers7.455
195 Lab on a Chip7.445
196 Science China-Technological Sciences7.404
197 Journal of Structural Engineering7.356
198 IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience7.328
199 Progress in Organic Coatings7.307
200 Macromolecular Materials and Engineering7.281
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