What are the highest-impact journals for Engineering?

Chemical Society Reviews, Progress in Materials Science, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Nature Reviews Materials, Nano-Micro Letters are among the top results, ranked by Scimago quartile then OpenAlex cites/paper from an 88,000-venue index, predatory venues excluded. The full list is on this page; for a match to your specific paper use the free Journal Recommender.

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Highest-impact journals for Engineering

The top Engineering journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an 88,000-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Finder.

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Chemical Society Reviews
33.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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Progress in Materials Science
28.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
27.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Nature Reviews Materials
26.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Nano-Micro Letters
26.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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Nature Energy
26.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
26.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Environmental Chemistry Letters
24.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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Energy & Environmental Science
24.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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10
Joule
23.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Nature Nanotechnology
22.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Nature Catalysis
22.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Nature Photonics
21.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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14
Progress in Polymer Science
19.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Nature Materials
19.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Advanced Materials
18.3 cites/paper · Q1
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Nature Sustainability
18.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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18
Nature Machine Intelligence
18.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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19
Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
17.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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20
Coordination Chemistry Reviews
16.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Nature Chemistry
15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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22
Advanced Energy Materials
15.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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Nano Energy
15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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24
Journal of Material Science and Technology
15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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25
Materials Science and Engineering R Reports
14.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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26
Nature Electronics
14.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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27
Nature Communications
14.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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28
Light Science & Applications
14.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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29
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
13.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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30
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture
13.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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31
Progress in Aerospace Sciences
13.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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32
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
13.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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33
International Journal of Plasticity
13.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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34
Journal of Energy Chemistry
13.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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35
ACS Energy Letters
13.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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36
ACS Nano
13.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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37
Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery
12.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)
12.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Advanced Functional Materials
12.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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40
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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