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Materials Science Journals

Explore journals grouped under Materials Science using the internal subject classification developed for Journals Impact Factors. This grouping is designed for journal discovery and comparison and is separate from official Journal Citation Reports categories.

Citation patterns can differ considerably between specialties. For a more meaningful comparison, use the subsubject links below and consider JIF, JCI and quartile information together with scope, readership, editorial standards and indexing.

138Approved journals
136Journals with JIF
34Q1 journals
40.000Highest available JIF
3.050Median available JIF
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137 journals with Q1–Q4 data
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Journal Subsubject JIF 5-Year JIF JCI Quartile Publisher
PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
ISSN 0079-6425 eISSN 1873-2208
Materials Science 40.000 44.800 2.420 Q1 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Nano-Micro Letters
ISSN 2311-6706 eISSN 2150-5551
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 36.300 30.100 5.040 Q1 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV PRESS
Nature Nanotechnology
ISSN 1748-3387 eISSN 1748-3395
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 34.900 40.400 5.000 Q1 NATURE PORTFOLIO
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS
ISSN 0927-796X eISSN 1879-212X
Materials Science 26.800 36.700 1.980 Q1 ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
Nano Materials Science
ISSN 2096-6482 eISSN 2589-9651
Materials Science 17.900 15.800 2.580 Q1 KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
Nano Energy
ISSN 2211-2855 eISSN 2211-3282
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 17.100 16.900 2.650 Q1 ELSEVIER
ACS Nano
ISSN 1936-0851 eISSN 1936-086X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 16.000 16.400 2.340 Q1 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Journal of Materials Science & Technology
ISSN 1005-0302 eISSN 1941-1162
Materials Science 14.300 12.400 2.590 Q1 ELSEVIER
CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS SCIENCE
ISSN 1359-0286 eISSN 1879-0348
Materials Science 13.400 13.100 0.940 Q1 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Nano Convergence
ISSN 2196-5404 eISSN 2196-5404
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 11.000 12.500 1.250 Q1 SPRINGER
Nano Today
ISSN 1748-0132 eISSN 1878-044X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 10.900 13.300 1.660 Q1 ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Microsystems & Nanoengineering
ISSN 2055-7434 eISSN 2055-7434
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 9.900 9.600 1.520 Q1 SPRINGERNATURE
NANO LETTERS
ISSN 1530-6984 eISSN 1530-6992
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 9.100 9.900 1.560 Q1 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Nano Research
ISSN 1998-0124 eISSN 1998-0000
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 9.000 8.700 1.470 Q1 TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS SCIENCES
ISSN 1040-8436 eISSN 1547-6561
Materials Science 8.900 11.800 0.500 Q1 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Materials Today Nano
ISSN 2588-8420 eISSN 2588-8420
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 8.200 9.600 1.250 Q1 ELSEVIER
International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials
ISSN 1674-4799 eISSN 1869-103X
Materials Science 7.200 5.500 1.520 Q1 SPRINGER
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
ISSN 0921-5093 eISSN 1873-4936
Materials Science 7.000 7.000 1.220 Q1 ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials
ISSN 1947-5411 eISSN 1947-542X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.600 5.900 0.890 Q1 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Nanophotonics
ISSN 2192-8606 eISSN 2192-8614
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.600 7.300 1.130 Q1 WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Nanoscale Horizons
ISSN 2055-6756 eISSN 2055-6764
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.600 8.100 0.870 Q1 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
International Journal of Nanomedicine
ISSN 1178-2013 eISSN 1178-2013
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.500 7.700 1.240 Q1 DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD
ACS Nanoscience Au
ISSN N/A eISSN 2694-2496
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.300 6.600 0.580 Q2 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Nanotechnology Reviews
ISSN 2191-9089 eISSN 2191-9097
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.100 6.700 0.800 Q1 DE GRUYTER POLAND SP Z O O
Biomaterials Science
ISSN 2047-4830 eISSN 2047-4849
Materials Science 5.700 6.000 0.830 Q2 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ACS Applied Nano Materials
ISSN N/A eISSN 2574-0970
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 5.500 5.600 0.830 Q2 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
ISSN 2373-9878 eISSN 2373-9878
Materials Science 5.500 5.500 0.830 Q2 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
NanoImpact
ISSN 2452-0748 eISSN 2452-0748
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 5.500 4.700 0.760 Q1 ELSEVIER
HYDROMETALLURGY
ISSN 0304-386X eISSN 1879-1158
Materials Science 5.300 5.500 1.090 Q1 ELSEVIER
Environmental Science-Nano
ISSN 2051-8153 eISSN 2051-8161
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 5.100 6.200 0.860 Q1 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Nanoscale
ISSN 2040-3364 eISSN 2040-3372
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 5.100 5.600 0.840 Q1 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part N-Journal of Nanomaterials Nanoengineering and Nanosystems
ISSN 2397-7914 eISSN 2397-7922
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 5.000 4.100 0.330 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Nano Communication Networks
ISSN 1878-7789 eISSN 1878-7797
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.700 3.600 0.790 Q2 ELSEVIER
Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials
ISSN 0921-5107 eISSN 1873-4944
Materials Science 4.600 4.400 0.720 Q2 ELSEVIER
Materials Science in Additive Manufacturing
ISSN N/A eISSN 2810-9635
Materials Science 4.600 4.900 0.910 Q2 Accscience Publishing
MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING
ISSN 1369-8001 eISSN 1873-4081
Materials Science 4.600 4.200 0.870 Q2 ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review
ISSN 0882-7508 eISSN 1547-7401
Materials Science 4.600 5.700 0.980 Q1 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Nanoscale Advances
ISSN 2516-0230 eISSN 2516-0230
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.600 5.100 0.610 Q2 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Discover Nano
ISSN N/A eISSN 2731-9229
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.500 4.500 0.570 Q2 SPRINGER
Nanomanufacturing and Metrology
ISSN 2520-811X eISSN 2520-8128
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.500 0.000 0.790 Q1 SPRINGERNATURE
Oxford Open Materials Science
ISSN 2633-6979 eISSN 2633-6979
Materials Science 4.500 4.000 0.340 Q2 OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Advanced NanoBiomed Research
ISSN 2699-9307 eISSN 2699-9307
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.400 4.300 0.440 Q2 WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOBIOSCIENCE
ISSN 1536-1241 eISSN 1558-2639
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.400 3.500 1.110 Q1 IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Nanomaterials
ISSN N/A eISSN 2079-4991
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.300 4.700 0.660 Q2 MDPI
Journal of Nanotechnology
ISSN 1687-9503 eISSN 1687-9511
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.100 4.600 0.390 Q2 WILEY
Nanoscale Research Letters
ISSN 1931-7573 eISSN 1556-276X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.100 5.500 0.730 Q2 SPRINGER
International Nano Letters
ISSN 2008-9295 eISSN 2228-5326
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.000 5.000 0.350 Q3 SPRINGER INT PUBL AG
Micro and Nano Systems Letters
ISSN N/A eISSN 2213-9621
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.000 4.100 0.370 Q3 SPRINGERNATURE
Acta Metallurgica Sinica-English Letters
ISSN 1006-7191 eISSN 2194-1289
Materials Science 3.900 3.800 0.740 Q1 CHINESE ACAD SCIENCES, INST METAL RESEARCH
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
ISSN 0022-2461 eISSN 1573-4803
Materials Science 3.900 4.300 0.620 Q2 SPRINGER
Nanomedicine
ISSN 1743-5889 eISSN 1748-6963
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.900 4.400 0.530 Q2 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
REVIEWS ON ADVANCED MATERIALS SCIENCE
ISSN 1606-5131 eISSN 1605-8127
Materials Science 3.900 3.800 0.460 Q2 DE GRUYTER POLAND SP Z O O
Frontiers in Nanotechnology
ISSN N/A eISSN 2673-3013
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.800 4.800 0.350 Q2 FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
IET Nanodielectrics
ISSN N/A eISSN 2514-3255
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.800 3.400 0.460 Q2 WILEY
Nanocomposites
ISSN 2055-0324 eISSN 2055-0332
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.700 4.200 0.560 Q2 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
PRECISION ENGINEERING-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0141-6359 eISSN 1873-2372
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.700 3.800 0.810 Q1 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION
ISSN 0920-5063 eISSN 1568-5624
Materials Science 3.600 3.400 0.610 Q2 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Nano Select
ISSN N/A eISSN 2688-4011
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.500 3.900 0.330 Q2 WILEY
Nanotoxicology
ISSN 1743-5390 eISSN 1743-5404
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.400 4.200 0.670 Q2 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
ISSN 0927-0256 eISSN 1879-0801
Materials Science 3.300 3.600 0.590 Q2 ELSEVIER
Nano Futures
ISSN N/A eISSN 2399-1984
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.300 2.900 0.310 Q2 IOP Publishing Ltd
Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology
ISSN 1847-9804 eISSN 1847-9804
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.300 3.300 0.440 Q2 WILEY
Advances in Nano Research
ISSN 2287-237X eISSN 2287-2388
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.200 3.600 0.620 Q3 TECHNO-PRESS
BioNanoScience
ISSN 2191-1630 eISSN 2191-1649
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.200 3.500 0.530 Q3 SPRINGER
Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy
ISSN 2199-3823 eISSN 2199-3831
Materials Science 3.200 3.300 0.520 Q2 SPRINGER
METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS B-PROCESS METALLURGY AND MATERIALS PROCESSING SCIENCE
ISSN 1073-5615 eISSN 1543-1916
Materials Science 3.100 3.100 0.560 Q2 SPRINGER
Micro and Nano Engineering
ISSN N/A eISSN 2590-0072
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.100 3.200 0.540 Q2 ELSEVIER
Recent Patents on Nanotechnology
ISSN 1872-2105 eISSN 2212-4020
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.100 2.500 0.240 Q2 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
Micro and Nanostructures
ISSN N/A eISSN 2773-0123
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 3.000 3.000 0.480 Q2 ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Journal of Nanotechnology Research
ISSN 2688-8521 eISSN 2688-8521
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.900 3.600 1.490 Q1 FORTUNE JOURNALS
Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications
ISSN 1569-4410 eISSN 1569-4429
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.900 2.500 0.540 Q2 ELSEVIER
Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
ISSN 1745-8080 eISSN 1745-8099
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.800 2.800 0.500 Q2 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
ISSN 0957-4522 eISSN 1573-482X
Materials Science 2.800 2.900 0.560 Q2 SPRINGER
NANOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0957-4484 eISSN 1361-6528
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.800 2.800 0.510 Q2 IOP Publishing Ltd
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
ISSN 2190-4286 eISSN 2190-4286
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.700 2.800 0.350 Q3 BEILSTEIN-INSTITUT
IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
ISSN 1932-4510 eISSN 1942-7808
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.700 2.400 0.280 Q3 IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering
ISSN 1672-6030 eISSN 2589-5540
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.700 3.500 0.410 Q3 AIP Publishing
ChemNanoMat
ISSN 2199-692X eISSN 2199-692X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.600 2.800 0.350 Q2 WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
ISSN 1388-0764 eISSN 1572-896X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.600 2.500 0.330 Q2 SPRINGER
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 1536-125X eISSN 1941-0085
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.500 2.500 0.430 Q2 IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
ISSN 1613-4982 eISSN 1613-4990
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.500 2.600 0.590 Q2 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Nano Express
ISSN N/A eISSN 2632-959X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.500 2.900 0.380 Q3 IOP Publishing Ltd
Micro & Nano Letters
ISSN N/A eISSN 1750-0443
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.400 1.400 0.240 Q3 WILEY
MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
ISSN 0965-0393 eISSN 1361-651X
Materials Science 2.400 2.200 0.410 Q3 IOP Publishing Ltd
Nanotechnology Science and Applications
ISSN 1177-8903 eISSN 1177-8903
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.400 5.300 0.380 Q4 DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD
Frontiers of Materials Science
ISSN 2095-025X eISSN 2095-0268
Materials Science 2.300 2.500 0.340 Q3 HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
ACTA METALLURGICA SINICA
ISSN 0412-1961 eISSN N/A
Materials Science 2.200 2.300 0.530 Q2 SCIENCE PRESS
Journal of Nanofluids
ISSN 2169-432X eISSN 2169-4338
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.200 2.100 0.340 Q4 AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0267-0836 eISSN 1743-2847
Materials Science 2.200 2.100 0.350 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Mining Technology-Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy
ISSN 2572-6668 eISSN 2572-6676
Materials Science 2.200 2.400 0.470 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Advances in Natural Sciences-Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
ISSN 2043-6254 eISSN 2043-6262
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.100 2.600 0.300 Q3 IOP Publishing Ltd
BULLETIN OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
ISSN 0250-4707 eISSN 0973-7669
Materials Science 2.100 2.100 0.350 Q3 INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
Mining Metallurgy & Exploration
ISSN 2524-3462 eISSN 2524-3470
Materials Science 2.000 2.100 0.470 Q2 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Nanofabrication
ISSN 2299-680X eISSN 2299-680X
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.000 2.200 0.210 Q4 Eurasia Acad Publ Group (EAPG)
IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology
ISSN N/A eISSN 2644-1292
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 1.900 1.900 0.270 Q3 IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
AIMS Materials Science
ISSN 2372-0468 eISSN 2372-0484
Materials Science 1.800 1.900 0.310 Q4 AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS
FULLERENES NANOTUBES AND CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES
ISSN 1536-383X eISSN 1536-4046
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 1.800 2.200 0.360 Q3 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Journal of Micro-Nanopatterning Materials and Metrology-JM3
ISSN 1932-5150 eISSN 2708-8340
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 1.800 1.900 0.350 Q3 SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES-MICRO-AND NANOSYSTEMS-INFORMATION STORAGE AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS
ISSN 0946-7076 eISSN 1432-1858
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 1.800 1.800 0.320 Q3 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
POWDER METALLURGY
ISSN 0032-5899 eISSN 1743-2901
Materials Science 1.800 2.200 0.420 Q2 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Using the data

How to compare Materials Science journals

A broad research area can contain specialties with very different citation patterns. Start with the most relevant subsubject, then compare JIF, five-year JIF, JCI and quartile information alongside the journal's aims and scope, indexing, editorial standards, readership and publication model.

JIF

A journal-level citation measure that is most informative when comparing journals in related fields.

JCI

A field-normalized journal metric that provides another perspective on citation impact.

Quartile

A relative position within a category. Internal subjects on this site are not official JCR categories.