What are the best journals for Materials Chemistry?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Materials Chemistry journals include Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, ACS Nano, CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). The top 40 of 412 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Materials Chemistry journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Materials Chemistry come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Materials Chemistry — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Materials Chemistry — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (2 of the 412 journals ranked here are below that floor; none of them is among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Materials Chemistry journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Materials Chemistry paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Materials Chemistry · 412 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Materials Chemistry

The top 40 of 412 Materials Chemistry journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Materials Chemistry is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

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Nature Nanotechnology
27.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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2
Nature Materials
23.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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3
Coordination Chemistry Reviews
20.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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4
ACS Nano
17.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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5
CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)
16.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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6
Journal of Advanced Ceramics
14.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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7
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science
13.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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8
Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica
12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Peking University Press
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9
Carbon
11.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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10
Applied Physics Reviews
11.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Institute of Physics
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11
Corrosion Science
11.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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12
Aggregate
10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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13
npj Computational Materials
10.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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14
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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15
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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16
NPG Asia Materials
9.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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17
Nano Letters
9.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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18
Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects
8.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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19
Communications Materials
8.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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20
Chemical Physics Impact
8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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21
Surface and Coatings Technology
7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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22
Nanoscale Advances
7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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23
RSC Advances
7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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24
Nano Research
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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25
Journal of Materiomics
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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26
Materials Today Physics
7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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27
Carbon letters
7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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28
Journal of Rare Earths
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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29
New Carbon Materials
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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30
Discover Nano
6.9 cites/paper · Q1
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31
ACS Applied Nano Materials
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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32
Nanomaterials
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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33
Applied Surface Science
6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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34
International Journal of Impact Engineering
6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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35
Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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36
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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37
Inorganic Chemistry Communications
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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38
Materials Research Bulletin
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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39
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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40
Ceramics International
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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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.