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Top Peer Reviewed Journals – Materials Science

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Materials Science

The subject discipline for Materials Science is made of 12 narrow subject categories from the Web of Science. The 12 categories that make up Materials Science are:

1. Construction & Building Technology 2. Materials Science, Biomaterials 3. Materials Science, Ceramics 4. Materials Science, Characterization & Testing 5. Materials Science, Coatings & Films 6. Materials Science, Composites 7. Materials Science, Multidisciplinary 8. Materials Science, Paper & Wood 9. Materials Science, Textiles 10. Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering 11. Metallurgy & Mining 12. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

The chart below provides an ordered view of the top peer reviewed journals within the 1st quartile for Materials Science based on Impact Factors (IF), three year averages and their quartile ranking.

Journal 2009 IF 2010 IF 2011 IF Average IF NATURE MATERIALS 29.5 29.92 32.84 30.75 Nature Nanotechnology 26.3 30.32 27.27 27.96

PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE 15.76 16.65 18.21 16.87

MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R- 12.21 19.75 14.95 15.64 REPORTS ADVANCED MATERIALS 8.37 10.88 13.87 11.04 ANNUAL REVIEW OF MATERIALS 7.91 10.33 13.07 10.44 RESEARCH ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 6.99 8.5 10.17 8.55 Materials Today 11.45 6.26 5.56 7.76 BIOMATERIALS 7.36 7.88 7.4 7.55 Small 6.17 7.33 8.34 7.28 CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 5.36 6.4 7.28 6.35 EUROPEAN CELLS & MATERIALS 5.37 9.65 3.02 6.01 INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS REVIEWS 4.85 5.79 6.96 5.87

NPG Asia Materials 5.53 5.53

MRS BULLETIN 6.33 4.76 4.95 5.35 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 4.79 5.1 5.96 5.28 Soft Matter 4.86 4.45 4.39 4.57 SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR 3.85 4.74 4.54 4.38 CELLS CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & 4 4.38 4.23 4.20 MATERIALS SCIENCE ACTA MATERIALIA 3.76 3.79 3.75 3.77 Metallomics 3.59 3.9 3.75 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2.92 4.52 3.72 NANOTECHNOLOGY 3.13 3.65 3.97 3.58 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF 2.59 3.22 3.51 3.11 ADVANCED MATERIALS CORROSION SCIENCE 2.31 3.26 3.73 3.10 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of 3.17 3.29 2.81 3.09 Biomedical Materials MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS 2.65 3.22 3.28 3.05 MATERIALS JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 2.47 3.25 3.28 3.00 COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND 2.9 2.86 3.14 2.97 TECHNOLOGY CELLULOSE 2.15 2.81 3.6 2.85 GOLD BULLETIN 2.32 2.71 3.51 2.85 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS 2.81 3.04 2.62 2.82 RESEARCH PART A SCRIPTA MATERIALIA 2.94 2.82 2.69 2.82 Biofabrication 1.85 3.48 2.67 Science of Advanced Materials 2 3.3 2.65 Functional Materials Letters 2.56 2.67 2.62 Biointerphases 2.48 3.11 2.2 2.60 PLATINUM METALS REVIEW 2.57 2.57 COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE 2.41 2.34 2.69 2.48 AND MANUFACTURING CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH 2.37 2.18 2.78 2.44 Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials 2.18 2.68 2.43 for Biological Applications JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC 2.09 2.57 2.35 2.34 SOCIETY MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN 2.29 2.29 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INTERMETALLICS 2.23 2.33 2.28 MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2.01 2.35 2.23 2.20 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE- 1.95 2.32 2.31 2.19 MATERIALS IN MEDICINE Biomedical Materials 1.96 2.46 2.15 2.19 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED 2.18 2.22 2.14 2.18 BIOMATERIALS JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS 2.13 2.13 2.28 2.18 CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES 1.83 2.42 2.13 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC 1.94 2.16 2.27 2.12 SOCIETY

MATERIALS LETTERS 1.94 2.12 2.3 2.12

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 2 2.03 2.24 2.09 SOFT MATERIALS 2.08 2.08 MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN 1.87 2.14 2.1 2.04 HYDROMETALLURGY 2.07 1.92 2.02 2.00 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES 1.9 2.1 2 2.00 MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADHESION 1.85 1.94 2.17 1.99 AND ADHESIVES MECHANICS OF MATERIALS 2.2 1.91 1.76 1.96 JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL 1.95 1.95 SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE 1.79 2.1 1.95 MATERIALS & DESIGN 1.69 2.2 1.95 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 1.85 2.01 1.93 SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 1.79 2.14 1.86 1.93 Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and 1.75 2.07 1.91 Biostructures DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS 1.82 1.82 1.91 1.85 THIN SOLID FILMS 1.72 1.93 1.89 1.85 MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C- BIOMIMETIC AND SUPRAMOLECULAR 1.84 1.84 SYSTEMS POLYMER TESTING 1.66 2.01 1.84 CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING 1.83 1.83 MATERIALS PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS 1.66 1.86 1.97 1.83 JOURNAL OF THERMAL SPRAY 1.84 1.81 1.83 TECHNOLOGY

WEAR 1.77 1.87 1.82

Current Nanoscience 1.87 1.77 1.82 Electronic Materials Letters 1.81 1.81

OPTICAL MATERIALS 1.72 1.67 2.02 1.80 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION 1.82 1.8 1.79 1.80 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE 1.8 1.80 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING 1.78 1.78 TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 1.75 1.75 B-SOLID STATE MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS 1.76 1.74 1.75 GRANULAR MATTER 1.75 1.75 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF 1.75 1.75 REFRACTORY METALS & HARD MATERIALS COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING 1.7 1.77 1.73 1.73 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF 1.73 1.73 WELDING AND JOINING METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS 1.72 1.72 TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE MATERIALS RESEARCH INNOVATIONS 1.72 1.72 CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL 1.68 1.75 1.72 Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced 1.71 1.71 Functional Solid-State Materials JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 1.66 1.66

Year – 2009

Journal Impact Factor Ranking NATURE MATERIALS 29.5 1/274 Nature Nanotechnology 26.3 2/274 PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE 15.76 3/274 MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS 12.21 4/274 Materials Today 11.45 5/274 ADVANCED MATERIALS 8.37 6/274 ANNUAL REVIEW OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 7.91 7/274 BIOMATERIALS 7.36 8/274 ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 6.99 9/274 MRS BULLETIN 6.33 10/274 Small 6.17 11/274 EUROPEAN CELLS & MATERIALS 5.37 12/274 CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 5.36 13/274 Soft Matter 4.86 14/274 INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS REVIEWS 4.85 15/274 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 4.79 16/274 CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS 4 17/274 SCIENCE SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS 3.85 18/274 ACTA MATERIALIA 3.76 19/274 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 3.17 20/274 NANOTECHNOLOGY 3.13 21/274 SCRIPTA MATERIALIA 2.94 22/274 COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2.9 23/274 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART 2.81 24/274 A MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS 2.65 25/274 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED 2.59 26/274 MATERIALS Functional Materials Letters 2.56 27/274 Biointerphases 2.48 28/274 JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 2.47 29/274 COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND 2.41 30/274 MANUFACTURING CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH 2.37 31/274 GOLD BULLETIN 2.32 32/274 CORROSION SCIENCE 2.31 33/274 INTERMETALLICS 2.23 34/274 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS 2.2 35/274 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART 2.18 36/274 B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS CELLULOSE 2.15 37/274 JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS 2.13 38/274 JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2.09 39/274 HYDROMETALLURGY 2.07 40/274 MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2.01 41/274 COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 2 42/274 Biomedical Materials 1.96 43/274 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN 1.95 44/274 MEDICINE MATERIALS LETTERS 1.94 45/274 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 1.94 45/274 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A- STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES 1.9 47/274 MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN 1.87 48/274 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADHESION AND 1.85 49/274 ADHESIVES MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-BIOMIMETIC 1.84 50/274 AND SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES 1.83 51/274 DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS 1.82 52/274 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION 1.82 52/274 SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 1.79 54/274 WEAR 1.77 55/274 ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS 1.76 56/274 Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures 1.75 57/274 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-SOLID STATE 1.75 57/274 MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFRACTORY METALS & 1.75 57/274 HARD MATERIALS MATERIALS RESEARCH INNOVATIONS 1.72 60/274 OPTICAL MATERIALS 1.72 60/274 THIN SOLID FILMS 1.72 60/274 Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional 1.71 63/274 Solid-State Materials COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING 1.7 64/274 CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL 1.68 65/274 PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS 1.66 66/274 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 1.66 66/274 POLYMER TESTING 1.66 66/274

Year – 2010

Journal Impact Factor Ranking Nature Nanotechnology 30.32 1/295 NATURE MATERIALS 29.92 2/295 MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS 19.75 3/295 PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE 16.65 4/295 ADVANCED MATERIALS 10.88 5/295 Annual Review of Materials Research 10.33 6/295 EUROPEAN CELLS & MATERIALS 9.65 7/295 ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 8.5 8/295 BIOMATERIALS 7.88 9/295 Small 7.33 10/295 CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 6.4 11/295 Materials Today 6.26 12/295 INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS REVIEWS 5.79 13/295 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 5.1 14/295 MRS BULLETIN 4.76 15/295 SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS 4.74 16/295 Soft Matter 4.45 17/295 CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS 4.38 18/295 SCIENCE ACTA MATERIALIA 3.79 19/295 NANOTECHNOLOGY 3.65 20/295 Metallomics 3.59 21/295 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 3.29 22/295 CORROSION SCIENCE 3.26 23/295 JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 3.25 24/295 MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS 3.22 25/295 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED 3.22 25/295 MATERIALS Biointerphases 3.11 27/295 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART 3.04 28/295 A ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2.92 29/295 COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2.86 30/295 SCRIPTA MATERIALIA 2.82 31/295 CELLULOSE 2.81 32/295 GOLD BULLETIN 2.71 33/295 Functional Materials Letters 2.67 34/295 PLATINUM METALS REVIEW 2.57 35/295 JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2.57 35/295 Biomedical Materials 2.46 37/295 MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2.35 38/295 COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND 2.34 39/295 MANUFACTURING INTERMETALLICS 2.33 40/295 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN 2.32 41/295 MEDICINE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART 2.22 42/295 B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH 2.18 43/295 Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological 2.18 43/295 Applications JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2.16 45/295 SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 2.14 46/295 MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN 2.14 46/295 JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS 2.13 48/295 MATERIALS LETTERS 2.12 49/295 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A- STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES 2.1 50/295 MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING SOFT MATERIALS 2.08 51/295 Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures 2.07 52/295 COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 2.03 53/295 POLYMER TESTING 2.01 54/295 Science of Advanced Materials 2 55/295 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADHESION AND 1.94 56/295 ADHESIVES THIN SOLID FILMS 1.93 57/295 HYDROMETALLURGY 1.92 58/295 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS 1.91 59/295 Current Nanoscience 1.87 60/295 PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS 1.86 61/295 Biofabrication 1.85 62/295 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 1.85 62/295 JOURNAL OF THERMAL SPRAY TECHNOLOGY 1.84 64/295 DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS 1.82 65/295 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION 1.8 66/295 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE 1.8 66/295 APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE 1.79 68/295 COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING 1.77 69/295 ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS 1.74 70/295 METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A- 1.72 71/295 PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE MATERIALS & DESIGN 1.69 72/295 OPTICAL MATERIALS 1.67 73/295

Year – 2011

Journal Impact Factor Ranking NATURE MATERIALS 32.84 1/300 Nature Nanotechnology 27.27 2/300 PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE 18.21 3/300 MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS 14.95 4/300 ADVANCED MATERIALS 13.87 5/300 Annual Review of Materials Research 13.07 6/300 ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 10.17 7/300 Small 8.34 8/300 BIOMATERIALS 7.4 9/300 CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 7.28 10/300 INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS REVIEWS 6.96 11/300 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 5.96 12/300 Materials Today 5.56 13/300 NPG Asia Materials 5.53 14/300 MRS BULLETIN 4.95 15/300 SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS 4.54 16/300 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 4.52 17/300 Soft Matter 4.39 18/300 CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS 4.23 19/300 SCIENCE NANOTECHNOLOGY 3.97 20/300 Metallomics 3.9 21/300 ACTA MATERIALIA 3.75 22/300 CORROSION SCIENCE 3.73 23/300 CELLULOSE 3.6 24/300 GOLD BULLETIN 3.51 25/300 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED 3.51 25/300 MATERIALS Biofabrication 3.48 27/300 Science of Advanced Materials 3.3 28/300 JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 3.28 29/300 MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS 3.28 29/300 COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 3.14 31/300 EUROPEAN CELLS & MATERIALS 3.02 32/300 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 2.81 33/300 CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH 2.78 34/300 COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND 2.69 35/300 MANUFACTURING SCRIPTA MATERIALIA 2.69 35/300 Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological 2.68 37/300 Applications JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART 2.62 38/300 A CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES 2.42 39/300 JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2.35 40/300 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN 2.31 41/300 MEDICINE MATERIALS LETTERS 2.3 42/300 MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE 2.29 43/300 AND ENGINEERING JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS 2.28 44/300 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 2.27 45/300 COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 2.24 46/300 MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2.23 47/300 Biointerphases 2.2 48/300 MATERIALS & DESIGN 2.2 48/300 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADHESION AND 2.17 50/300 ADHESIVES Biomedical Materials 2.15 51/300 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART 2.14 52/300 B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE 2.1 53/300 MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN 2.1 53/300 HYDROMETALLURGY 2.02 55/300 OPTICAL MATERIALS 2.02 55/300 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 2.01 57/300 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A- STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES 2 58/300 MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS 1.97 59/300 JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND 1.95 60/300 STRUCTURES DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS 1.91 61/300 THIN SOLID FILMS 1.89 62/300 WEAR 1.87 63/300 SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 1.86 64/300 CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS 1.83 65/300 Electronic Materials Letters 1.81 66/300 JOURNAL OF THERMAL SPRAY TECHNOLOGY 1.81 66/300 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION 1.79 68/300 JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY 1.78 69/300 Current Nanoscience 1.77 70/300 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS 1.76 71/300 CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL 1.75 72/300 GRANULAR MATTER 1.75 72/300 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF WELDING AND 1.73 74/300 JOINING COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING 1.73 74/300