Materials Science SCI Journals

As of October 2026, JournalCompass lists 542 journals in the Materials Science major category of the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition): 51 in Zone 1, 69 in Zone 2, 105 in Zone 3 and 291 in Zone 4, 61 of them Top journals. By database: SCIE 376, SSCI 0, A&HCI 0 and ESCI 147 (a journal can be indexed in more than one).

By impact factor, the Zone 1 journals in Materials Science include Nature Reviews Materials (impact factor 82.87), Nature Energy (impact factor 69.77), eScience (impact factor 52.9), Electrochemical Energy Reviews (impact factor 51.27), Progress in Materials Science (impact factor 42.89), 51 in all; see the full list of Zone 1 Materials Science journals.

Across the 475 Materials Science journals with review-time data, the median review time is about 12.2 weeks. Among Zone 1–2 journals, fast ones include Matter (about 1.5 weeks, community reports), MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS (about 2.7 weeks, community reports), Nano Research (about 4.3 weeks, community reports), Materials Research Letters (about 4.7 weeks, publisher figure), Materials Today Physics (about 6.7 weeks, publisher figure). Review times come first from article statistics (the median from submission to acceptance over the last 24 months), then from publisher figures and community reports; a single manuscript can take much longer or shorter.

30 journals in Materials Science charge authors no article processing charge (APC); those with the highest impact factors include Nano Research Energy (impact factor 22.6), Nano Materials Science (impact factor 20.5), Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research (impact factor 18.4), Energy Material Advances (impact factor 17.4), Functional Diamond (impact factor 5.6); see the list of Materials Science journals with no APC. Subscription journals usually charge no APC but may charge for colour figures or extra pages; check the journal's website before submitting.