Materials Characterization

Elsevier
Elsevier
ISSN: 10445803, 18734189
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
4.8
SJR
1.137
CiteScore
7.6
Categories
Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Areas
Engineering
Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy
Years of issue
1970, 1990-2025
journal names
Materials Characterization
MATER CHARACT
Publications
9 685
Citations
205 781
h-index
127
Publications
4 211
Citations
128 384
Top-3 organizations
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology (335 publications)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (332 publications)
Central South University
Central South University (315 publications)
Central South University
Central South University (193 publications)
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology (189 publications)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (151 publications)
Top-3 countries
China (3888 publications)
USA (992 publications)
India (525 publications)
China (2094 publications)
USA (263 publications)
India (163 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

Found 
from chars
Publications found: 0

Top-100

Citing journals

2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
13350 citations, 6.49%
Materials Characterization
11384 citations, 5.53%
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
9366 citations, 4.55%
Journal of Materials Research and Technology
7787 citations, 3.78%
Materials
5812 citations, 2.82%
Metals
4684 citations, 2.28%
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
4527 citations, 2.2%
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
3600 citations, 1.75%
Materials Today Communications
2717 citations, 1.32%
Materials and Design
2692 citations, 1.31%
Ceramics International
2488 citations, 1.21%
Acta Materialia
2386 citations, 1.16%
Surface and Coatings Technology
2353 citations, 1.14%
Journal of Materials Science
2245 citations, 1.09%
Journal of Materials Science and Technology
1951 citations, 0.95%
Corrosion Science
1894 citations, 0.92%
Materials Research Express
1594 citations, 0.77%
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
1550 citations, 0.75%
Journal of Manufacturing Processes
1541 citations, 0.75%
Metals and Materials International
1509 citations, 0.73%
Advanced Engineering Materials
1471 citations, 0.71%
Additive Manufacturing
1456 citations, 0.71%
Materials Science and Technology
1437 citations, 0.7%
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
1413 citations, 0.69%
Steel Research International
1411 citations, 0.69%
Construction and Building Materials
1361 citations, 0.66%
Journal of Materials Processing Technology
1264 citations, 0.61%
Materials Chemistry and Physics
1233 citations, 0.6%
Vacuum
1187 citations, 0.58%
Applied Surface Science
1170 citations, 0.57%
Scripta Materialia
1104 citations, 0.54%
Intermetallics
1099 citations, 0.53%
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
1079 citations, 0.52%
Materials Today: Proceedings
1065 citations, 0.52%
JOM
1057 citations, 0.51%
Materials Letters
1047 citations, 0.51%
International Journal of Fatigue
1047 citations, 0.51%
Materials Science Forum
1038 citations, 0.5%
Materials & Design (1980-2015)
1001 citations, 0.49%
Journal of Nuclear Materials
946 citations, 0.46%
Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters)
922 citations, 0.45%
Journal of Magnesium and Alloys
886 citations, 0.43%
Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals
870 citations, 0.42%
Coatings
852 citations, 0.41%
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
837 citations, 0.41%
Crystals
814 citations, 0.4%
Journal of Iron and Steel Research International
763 citations, 0.37%
Engineering Failure Analysis
762 citations, 0.37%
Journal of Materials Research
730 citations, 0.35%
Materialia
728 citations, 0.35%
Advanced Materials Research
726 citations, 0.35%
International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials
723 citations, 0.35%
Optics and Laser Technology
632 citations, 0.31%
Materials Transactions
629 citations, 0.31%
Scientific Reports
628 citations, 0.31%
International Journal of Plasticity
620 citations, 0.3%
Wear
583 citations, 0.28%
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
574 citations, 0.28%
International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials
564 citations, 0.27%
Tribology International
550 citations, 0.27%
Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis
547 citations, 0.27%
Progress in Materials Science
481 citations, 0.23%
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
471 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
469 citations, 0.23%
Science and Technology of Welding and Joining
468 citations, 0.23%
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
465 citations, 0.23%
Computational Materials Science
458 citations, 0.22%
Materials Research
458 citations, 0.22%
ISIJ International
456 citations, 0.22%
Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
432 citations, 0.21%
Welding in the World, Le Soudage Dans Le Monde
427 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
417 citations, 0.2%
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
416 citations, 0.2%
International Journal of Metalcasting
416 citations, 0.2%
Key Engineering Materials
406 citations, 0.2%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
396 citations, 0.19%
Microscopy and Microanalysis
392 citations, 0.19%
AIP Conference Proceedings
375 citations, 0.18%
Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
369 citations, 0.18%
RSC Advances
364 citations, 0.18%
Rare Metals
356 citations, 0.17%
Nanomaterials
334 citations, 0.16%
Powder Technology
325 citations, 0.16%
Composites Part B: Engineering
313 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Applied Physics
311 citations, 0.15%
The Philosophical Magazine
311 citations, 0.15%
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
310 citations, 0.15%
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
305 citations, 0.15%
Engineering Fracture Mechanics
298 citations, 0.14%
Cement and Concrete Research
296 citations, 0.14%
International Journal of Materials Research
294 citations, 0.14%
Materials Science and Engineering C
288 citations, 0.14%
Ultramicroscopy
286 citations, 0.14%
Cement and Concrete Composites
283 citations, 0.14%
Materials and Corrosion - Werkstoffe und Korrosion
283 citations, 0.14%
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
266 citations, 0.13%
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
265 citations, 0.13%
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
262 citations, 0.13%
Thin Solid Films
257 citations, 0.12%
Electrochimica Acta
253 citations, 0.12%
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000

Citing publishers

20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
Elsevier
106575 citations, 51.79%
Springer Nature
33090 citations, 16.08%
MDPI
15243 citations, 7.41%
Wiley
7779 citations, 3.78%
Taylor & Francis
6596 citations, 3.21%
IOP Publishing
4528 citations, 2.2%
Trans Tech Publications
3414 citations, 1.66%
SAGE
1887 citations, 0.92%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
1654 citations, 0.8%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1488 citations, 0.72%
Walter de Gruyter
1406 citations, 0.68%
AIP Publishing
1236 citations, 0.6%
Pleiades Publishing
1180 citations, 0.57%
Cambridge University Press
935 citations, 0.45%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
904 citations, 0.44%
Japan Institute of Metals
774 citations, 0.38%
Hindawi Limited
693 citations, 0.34%
EDP Sciences
672 citations, 0.33%
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
554 citations, 0.27%
Emerald
513 citations, 0.25%
University of Science and Technology Beijing
493 citations, 0.24%
Oxford University Press
491 citations, 0.24%
Korean Institute of Metals and Materials
487 citations, 0.24%
ASME International
426 citations, 0.21%
World Scientific
403 citations, 0.2%
ASM International
394 citations, 0.19%
The Electrochemical Society
393 citations, 0.19%
Frontiers Media S.A.
331 citations, 0.16%
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
330 citations, 0.16%
Nonferrous Metals Society of China
314 citations, 0.15%
American Physical Society (APS)
280 citations, 0.14%
272 citations, 0.13%
ASTM International
238 citations, 0.12%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
235 citations, 0.11%
220 citations, 0.11%
NACE International
205 citations, 0.1%
182 citations, 0.09%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
182 citations, 0.09%
Wuhan University of Technology
172 citations, 0.08%
IntechOpen
155 citations, 0.08%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
146 citations, 0.07%
Chinese Society of Rare Earths
135 citations, 0.07%
SAE International
129 citations, 0.06%
Laser Institute of America
124 citations, 0.06%
Thomas Telford
120 citations, 0.06%
Scientific Research Publishing
115 citations, 0.06%
American Vacuum Society
107 citations, 0.05%
IGI Global
103 citations, 0.05%
National University of Science & Technology (MISiS)
98 citations, 0.05%
Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
96 citations, 0.05%
Optica Publishing Group
88 citations, 0.04%
King Saud University
85 citations, 0.04%
Japan Institute of Light Metals
85 citations, 0.04%
Research Square Platform LLC
85 citations, 0.04%
Tsinghua University Press
84 citations, 0.04%
Editora Edgard Blucher, Ltda.
82 citations, 0.04%
The Korean Society of Precision Engineering
74 citations, 0.04%
71 citations, 0.03%
68 citations, 0.03%
SciELO
68 citations, 0.03%
American Scientific Publishers
67 citations, 0.03%
Associacao Brasileira da Soldagem
67 citations, 0.03%
The Royal Society
64 citations, 0.03%
64 citations, 0.03%
Mary Ann Liebert
60 citations, 0.03%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
58 citations, 0.03%
Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry
58 citations, 0.03%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
57 citations, 0.03%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
56 citations, 0.03%
The Japan Society for Technology and Plasticity
54 citations, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
53 citations, 0.03%
Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
53 citations, 0.03%
Japan Welding Society
51 citations, 0.02%
47 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Technology and Production Management University of J.E. Purkyne
47 citations, 0.02%
OAE Publishing Inc.
46 citations, 0.02%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
45 citations, 0.02%
Annual Reviews
44 citations, 0.02%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
44 citations, 0.02%
Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of RAS
42 citations, 0.02%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
42 citations, 0.02%
Editorial CSIC
42 citations, 0.02%
Science in China Press
40 citations, 0.02%
Hans Publishers
40 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
39 citations, 0.02%
The Society of Materials Science, Japan
38 citations, 0.02%