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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
Quartile distribution

Materials Science journals by quartile

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
Nanotechnology Reviews
ISSN 2191-9089 eISSN 2191-9097
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 6.100 6.700 0.800 Q1 DE GRUYTER POLAND SP Z O O
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
Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review
ISSN 0882-7508 eISSN 1547-7401
Materials Science 4.600 5.700 0.980 Q1 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Nanomanufacturing and Metrology
ISSN 2520-811X eISSN 2520-8128
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 4.500 0.000 0.790 Q1 SPRINGERNATURE
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
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
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 Nanotechnology Research
ISSN 2688-8521 eISSN 2688-8521
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2.900 3.600 1.490 Q1 FORTUNE JOURNALS
NanoEthics
ISSN 1871-4757 eISSN 1871-4765
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 1.500 1.600 0.850 Q1 SPRINGER
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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.