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Materials Chemistry · 94 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best open-access journals for Materials Chemistry

The top 40 of 94 Materials Chemistry journals, open-access only, 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 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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  1. 1
    Journal of Advanced Ceramics
    14.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  2. 2
    Aggregate
    10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    npj Computational Materials
    10.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
    10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    NPG Asia Materials
    9.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Communications Materials
    8.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Chemical Physics Impact
    8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  8. 8
    Nanoscale Advances
    7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    RSC Advances
    7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    Nano Research
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Journal of Materiomics
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  12. 12
    Discover Nano
    6.9 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Nanomaterials
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    APL Materials
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Institute of Physics
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Digital Discovery
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    IET Nanobiotechnology
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institution of Engineering and Technology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    IUCrJ
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · International Union of Crystallography
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Nuclear Materials and Energy
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  19. 19
    Next Materials
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Structural Dynamics
    0.5 cites/paper · Q1 · AIP Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Catalysis Communications
    13.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  22. 22
    Corrosion Reviews
    6.8 cites/paper · Q2 · De Gruyter
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  23. 23
    Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
    5.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Green Processing and Synthesis
    5.5 cites/paper · Q2 · De Gruyter
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  25. 25
    Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
    4.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Coatings
    4.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Crystals
    3.6 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Materials Research Express
    2.9 cites/paper · Q2 · IOP Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Micro & Nano Letters
    2.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Institution of Engineering and Technology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Inorganics
    4.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Open Ceramics
    3.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  32. 32
    Magnetochemistry
    2.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Philosophical Magazine Letters
    3.7 cites/paper · Q3 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies
    2.3 cites/paper · Q3 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  35. 35
    Materials Science-Poland
    2.0 cites/paper · Q3 · De Gruyter Open
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
  36. 36
    Comptes Rendus Chimie
    1.9 cites/paper · Q3 · Académie des sciences
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    BULLETIN OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING AND CATALYSIS
    1.8 cites/paper · Q3 · Diponegoro University
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  38. 38
    East European Journal of Physics
    1.7 cites/paper · Q3 · V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  39. 39
    Journal of Inorganic Materials
    1.2 cites/paper · Q3 · Science Press
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
  40. 40
    Nanosystems Physics Chemistry Mathematics
    0.9 cites/paper · Q3
    Open AccessScopusWeb of Science

“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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Frequently asked

Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Aggregate, npj Computational Materials, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, NPG Asia Materials lead this list, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. The top 40 of 94 ranked venues are listed on this page; 20 are Scimago Q1, 12 Q2 and 8 Q3. 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. Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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