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Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The 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 Papers
1 Sensors36287
2 Energies32531
3 Materials30597
4 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces23956
5 Journal of Alloys and Compounds21633
6 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy17889
7 Advanced Functional Materials16096
8 Energy15551
9 Optics Express15020
10 Radiotherapy and Oncology14672
11 Small14361
12 Physics of Fluids14031
13 IEEE Sensors Journal13924
14 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society13774
15 Astrophysical Journal13406
16 Fuel13342
17 Biophysical Journal12847
18 Applied Surface Science12394
19 Advanced Materials12374
20 Expert Systems With Applications11311
21 Astronomy & Astrophysics11232
22 Journal of Molecular Liquids11006
23 Ocean Engineering10901
24 International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics10834
25 Journal of Molecular Structure10699
26 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics10438
27 Journal of High Energy Physics10302
28 Journal of Physical Chemistry C10061
29 Journal of Colloid and Interface Science10044
30 Physica Scripta9798
31 Applied Physics Letters9755
32 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing9673
33 Physical Review Letters9649
34 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America9456
35 Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects9424
36 Inorganic Chemistry9393
37 ACS Nano9297
38 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement9088
39 Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics8735
40 Applied Thermal Engineering8462
41 Langmuir8402
42 Materials Letters8048
43 Journal of Chemical Physics7999
44 Renewable Energy7949
45 Applied Energy7564
46 Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical7136
47 Nano Letters7120
48 Dalton Transactions7074
49 Optics Letters7070
50 Journal of Applied Physics7013
51 Nanoscale6958
52 Electrochimica Acta6841
53 Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters6813
54 Bioresource Technology6740
55 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology6491
56 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems6349
57 Energy & Fuels6323
58 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics6291
59 Entropy6246
60 Journal of Power Sources6076
61 Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing6062
62 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics6009
63 Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy5752
64 Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications5661
65 Optical Materials5516
66 Inorganic Chemistry Communications5503
67 Applied Optics5493
68 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence5417
69 Optics and Laser Technology5295
70 Journal of the Electrochemical Society5284
71 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer5170
72 Energy Conversion and Management5051
73 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation4946
74 Chaos Solitons & Fractals4926
75 Journal of Physical Chemistry B4874
76 Advanced Energy Materials4844
77 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices4841
78 Nonlinear Dynamics4788
79 Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology4766
80 Multimedia Tools and Applications4726
81 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters4703
82 Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing4657
83 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental4633
84 Optik4626
85 Journal of Lightwave Technology4622
86 Journal of Fluid Mechanics4579
87 Composite Structures4512
88 Journal of Physical Chemistry A4408
89 Chinese Physics B4349
90 Carbon4313
91 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials4312
92 Surface & Coatings Technology4277
93 Chemistry of Materials4172
94 Energy and Buildings4129
95 Nano Research4126
96 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews4104
97 Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics4021
98 Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing3991
99 Physica Medica-European Journal of Medical Physics3962
100 Thin-Walled Structures3930
101 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing3908
102 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications3881
103 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology3843
104 Electric Power Systems Research3815
105 Engineering Failure Analysis3811
106 Diamond and Related Materials3785
107 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs3749
108 Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment3743
109 Optics Communications3726
110 Review of Scientific Instruments3691
111 Environmental Research Letters3645
112 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems3597
113 Crystal Growth & Design3585
114 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications3574
115 Vacuum3570
116 IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity3564
117 Soft Matter3563
118 Biosensors & Bioelectronics3559
119 Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing3517
120 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology3483
121 Physica B-Condensed Matter3481
122 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control3477
123 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer3458
124 Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry3434
125 Japanese Journal of Applied Physics3433
126 Nanotechnology3410
127 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics3409
128 Advances in Space Research3380
- Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics3380
130 Sensors and Actuators A-Physical3339
131 Physics of Plasmas3313
132 Tribology International3305
133 Solar Energy3291
134 Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry3271
135 Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications3256
136 Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing3255
137 IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters3231
138 Pattern Recognition3204
139 CrystEngComm3201
140 International Journal of Mechanical Sciences3185
141 Acta Physica Sinica3178
142 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation3167
143 Aerospace Science and Technology3100
144 Optical and Quantum Electronics3097
145 Journal of Computational Physics3068
146 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering3056
147 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence3055
148 ChemCatChem3044
149 Physics Letters B3038
150 Journal of Electronic Materials3001
151 Analytical Methods2997
152 Medical Physics2995
153 Chemical Physics Letters2992
154 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics2984
155 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems2981
156 Water Air and Soil Pollution2948
157 Journal of Supercomputing2922
158 Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter2913
159 IEEE Transactions on Communications2905
160 Neuroimage2901
161 Journal of Luminescence2889
162 Astrophysical Journal Letters2835
163 Engineering Fracture Mechanics2788
164 Computers & Electrical Engineering2760
165 Journal of Solid State Chemistry2757
166 International Journal of Energy Research2745
167 JOM2744
168 Radiation Physics and Chemistry2742
169 Annals of Nuclear Energy2734
170 IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques2667
171 IEEE Electron Device Letters2652
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry2652
173 Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials2635
174 Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics2608
175 Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering2602
176 IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science2601
177 Catalysis Science & Technology2581
178 Journal of Nanobiotechnology2550
179 Natural Hazards2545
180 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers2543
181 Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces2536
- Acta Astronautica2536
183 International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control2535
184 International Journal of Thermal Sciences2518
185 Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering2510
186 Journal of Nuclear Materials2494
187 IEEE Transactions on Magnetics2459
188 Nuclear Engineering and Design2450
189 Radiology2449
190 Applied Acoustics2434
191 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C-Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science2432
192 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems2403
193 Laser & Photonics Reviews2402
194 Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry2389
195 Combustion and Flame2357
196 Chaos2353
197 Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology2349
198 Automatica2345
- Astronomical Journal2345
200 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids2336
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