Materials Chemistry · 88 journals indexed
Best open-access journals for Materials Chemistry
The top Materials Chemistry journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from a 17,786-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 Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
- 1Journal of Advanced Ceramics12.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 3Ultrasonics Sonochemistry9.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4npj Computational Materials9.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 6Communications Materials8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 8RSC Advances6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 10Nano Research6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 11Nanoscale Advances6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 12Nanomaterials5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 13APL Materials5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Institute of PhysicsOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 14Digital Discovery4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 15IET Nanobiotechnology3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Institution of Engineering and TechnologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 16IUCrJ3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · International Union of CrystallographyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 20Science and Technology of Advanced Materials5.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 22Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology3.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical SciencesOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 23Crystals3.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24Materials Research Express2.6 cites/paper · Q2 · IOP PublishingOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25Micro & Nano Letters1.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Institution of Engineering and TechnologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Philosophical Magazine Letters3.4 cites/paper · Q3 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies1.8 cites/paper · Q3 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 29BULLETIN OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING AND CATALYSIS1.5 cites/paper · Q3 · Diponegoro UniversityOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 31Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan0.8 cites/paper · Q3 · Ceramic Society of JapanOpen AccessScopusWeb of Science
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- 33International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition0.6 cites/paper · Q3 · VACOROpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 34Indian Journal of Chemical Technology0.5 cites/paper · Q3 · CSIR-NIScPROpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 35Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics0.5 cites/paper · Q3 · Springer NatureOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 36Physics and Chemistry of Solid State0.8 cites/paper · Q4 · Vasyl Stefanyk Prycarpathian National UniversityOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 37Vietnam Journal of Science and Technology/Science and Technology0.7 cites/paper · Q4 · Vietnam Academy of Science and TechnologyOpen AccessScopus
- 38Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute0.6 cites/paper · Q4 · Japan Petroleum InstituteOpen AccessScopusWeb of Science
- 39Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia0.4 cites/paper · Q4 · Universidad de AntioquiaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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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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