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Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Advanced Materials203
2 Advanced Functional Materials155
3 ACS Nano151
4 Advanced Energy Materials138
5 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence124
6 Expert Systems With Applications113
7 Sensors112
8 Journal of Materials Science & Technology111
9 Nature Materials110
- Small110
- Nature Nanotechnology110
12 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems109
13 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces107
14 Carbohydrate Polymers105
15 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing102
16 Composites Part B-Engineering101
- Carbon101
18 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules100
- Construction and Building Materials100
20 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications95
21 Nano Letters93
22 Progress in Materials Science88
23 Materials Today87
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics87
25 Journal of Alloys and Compounds86
- Biomaterials86
27 Nano Research84
- Biosensors & Bioelectronics84
29 Automation in Construction83
30 Applied Surface Science82
- Materials82
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications82
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems82
34 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology81
35 Pattern Recognition80
36 Ceramics International79
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence79
- Materials & Design79
39 Journal of Nanobiotechnology78
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics78
- IEEE Sensors Journal78
42 Journal of Power Sources77
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering77
- Cell Stem Cell77
45 Acta Materialia76
46 Journal of Membrane Science75
- Acta Biomaterialia75
- Cement & Concrete Composites75
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing75
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology75
51 Nano Today73
- IEEE Transactions on Communications73
- Building and Environment73
54 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid72
55 Cement and Concrete Research71
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control71
- Journal of Manufacturing Systems71
58 Energy and Buildings70
59 Chemistry of Materials68
- International Journal of Production Economics68
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging68
62 Composite Structures67
- International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems67
64 Corrosion Science65
- Journal of Manufacturing Processes65
- Proceedings of the IEEE65
67 Composites Science and Technology64
68 Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing63
- Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing63
- Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters63
71 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation62
- Multimedia Tools and Applications62
- Laser & Photonics Reviews62
74 Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing61
- International Journal of Production Research61
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems61
77 Computers & Electrical Engineering60
- IEEE Wireless Communications60
79 Automatica59
- Progress in Polymer Science59
- Rare Metals59
82 Journal of the European Ceramic Society58
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement58
- Stem Cell Research & Therapy58
85 IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics57
- International Journal of Plasticity57
87 European Polymer Journal56
- Nanoscale56
- Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology56
90 Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces54
- Computer Networks54
- Macromolecules54
- Materials Chemistry and Physics54
94 IEEE Systems Journal53
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems53
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy53
97 Engineering Failure Analysis52
- IEEE Communications Magazine52
- Sensors and Actuators A-Physical52
- Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells52
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security52
- International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology52
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters52
- Surface & Coatings Technology52
- Scripta Materialia52
- International Journal of Nanomedicine52
107 Electric Power Systems Research51
- Optical Materials51
- Journal of Lightwave Technology51
- IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications51
111 Langmuir50
- Journal of Materials Science50
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers50
114 Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing49
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C49
- Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids49
- Optical and Quantum Electronics49
- Journal of Materials Processing Technology49
- Materials Research Bulletin49
- International Journal of Fatigue49
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems49
122 Diamond and Related Materials48
- Polymer Degradation and Stability48
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing48
- Computer Communications48
126 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing47
127 International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture46
- IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion46
- Polymer Composites46
- Silicon46
131 IEEE Network45
- Production and Operations Management45
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering45
- Journal of the Electrochemical Society45
135 Biomacromolecules44
- Polymer44
- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques44
138 Dyes and Pigments43
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits43
- Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials43
- Materials Science & Engineering R-Reports43
- Polymer Testing43
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery43
144 Cellulose42
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering42
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials42
- Journal of Nanomaterials42
- Microporous and Mesoporous Materials42
- IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters42
- Materials Characterization42
- Science China-Information Sciences42
- International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials42
153 IEEE Electron Device Letters41
- Materials Letters41
- Journal of Supercomputing41
- Vacuum41
- Physica B-Condensed Matter41
- Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids41
- Lab on a Chip41
- IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices41
161 Applied Clay Science40
162 Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing39
- Computational Materials Science39
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment39
- Journal of Constructional Steel Research39
166 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials38
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology38
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing38
- Journal of Applied Polymer Science38
- Progress in Organic Coatings38
- Signal Processing38
172 Biofabrication37
- CMC-Computers Materials & Continua37
- Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials37
- Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics37
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs37
- International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control37
- Crystal Growth & Design37
- Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing37
- Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics37
181 Control Engineering Practice36
- Science China-Technological Sciences36
- International Journal of Refractory Metals & Hard Materials36
- Advanced Engineering Materials36
- Nanotechnology36
- Plasmonics36
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine36
188 Macromolecular Rapid Communications35
- Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids35
- Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures35
- Polymer Chemistry35
- Wear35
- Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing35
- Reactive & Functional Polymers35
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability35
- Macromolecular Materials and Engineering35
- Journal of Structural Engineering35
- Particuology35
- Intermetallics35
200 Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China34
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