176 Materials Science journals in ORBIT Tier 3 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 3: third quarter of Materials Science by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microscopy and Microanalysis | 1431-9276 | 1,014 | 3 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Focus on Catalysts | 1351-4180 | 388 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Focus on Powder Coatings | 1364-5439 | 356 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Jurnal Kejuruteraan | 0128-0198 | 319 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Malaysia |
| Inorganic Materials Applied Research | 2075-1133 | 306 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Russian Metallurgy (Metally) | 0036-0295 | 302 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Archives of Metallurgy and Materials | 0860-7052 | 235 | 3 | ≈ ₹32,650 to publish | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Steel in Translation | 0967-0912 | 213 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Chinese Journal of Luminescence | 1000-7032 | 200 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces | 2070-2051 | 199 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences | 2319-0612 | 195 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Brazil |
| Polymer Science Series D | 1995-4212 | 172 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| IZVESTIYA VYSSHIKH UCHEBNYKH ZAVEDENIY KHIMIYA KHIMICHESKAYA TEKHNOLOGIYA | 0579-2991 | 167 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays | 1007-2780 | 156 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Fusion Science & Technology | 1536-1055 | 153 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Microscopy Today | 1551-9295 | 148 | 3 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| PPOR | 1726-4685 | 145 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Azerbaijan |
| Crystallography Reports | 1063-7745 | 142 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Switzerland |
| Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals | 1542-1406 | 140 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Nanobiotechnology Reports | 2635-1676 | 138 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | British Virgin Islands |
| IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine | 0883-7554 | 133 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines | 1088-4246 | 132 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Singapore |
| Russian Aeronautics | 1068-7998 | 132 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition | 2305-6894 | 130 | 3 | ≈ ₹24,082 to publish | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry | 0021-888X | 127 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Strength of Materials | 0039-2316 | 124 | 3 | ≈ ₹3,07,288 to publish | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics | 1383-5416 | 122 | 3 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Metal Science and Heat Treatment | 0026-0673 | 122 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| MEJ Mansoura Engineering Journal | 1110-0923 | 120 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Physics and Chemistry of Glasses European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B | 1750-6689 | 120 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Industrial laboratory Diagnostics of materials | 1028-6861 | 116 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Journal of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy | 1314-7471 | 115 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Bulgaria |
| Surface Engineering and Applied Electrochemistry | 1068-3755 | 114 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Magnetics | 1226-1750 | 109 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | South Korea |
| Voprosy Khimii i Khimicheskoi Tekhnologii | 0321-4095 | 108 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Ukraine |
| Nanosistemi Nanomateriali Nanotehnologii | 1816-5230 | 107 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Herald of Dagestan State Technical University Technical Sciences | 2073-6185 | 104 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Mechanical Engineering Journal | 2187-9745 | 99 | 3 | ≈ ₹48,779 to publish | Yes | Yes | Japan |
| Industria Textila | 1222-5347 | 97 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Romania |
| Plasticheskie massy | 0554-2901 | 97 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Materials Science | 1392-1320 | 91 | 3 | ≈ ₹54,416 to publish | Yes | Yes | Lithuania |
| Integritet i vek konstrukcija | 1451-3749 | 89 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Serbia |
| Journal of Condensed Matter | 2583-9152 | 89 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| Glass Physics and Chemistry | 1087-6596 | 88 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Applied Science and Engineering Progress | 2672-9156 | 87 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Thailand |
| INEOS OPEN | 2658-5618 | 86 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Matematika i mekhanika | 1998-8621 | 86 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics | 0019-5596 | 85 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | India |
| Indian Journal of Chemical Technology | 0971-457X | 78 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | India |
| Korean Journal of Materials Research | 1225-0562 | 78 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | South Korea |
| Moroccan Journal of chemistry | 2351-812X | 75 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Morocco |
| Nanosystems Physics Chemistry Mathematics | 2220-8054 | 73 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Kinetics and Catalysis | 0023-1584 | 69 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering | 2587-9618 | 66 | 3 | RUB 8,000 to publish | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology | 2097-213X | 66 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Haya The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences | 2415-6221 | 65 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United Arab Emirates |
| Izvestiya Ferrous Metallurgy | 0368-0797 | 64 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Uludağ University Journal of The Faculty of Engineering | 2148-4147 | 64 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Türkiye |
| Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Series Physics and Mathematics | 1812-5409 | 61 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Scientific journal of the Ternopil national technical university | 2522-4433 | 61 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Ukraine |
| Deu Muhendislik Fakultesi Fen ve Muhendislik | 1302-9304 | 60 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Türkiye |
| Building and reconstruction | 2073-7416 | 59 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| PNRPU Mechanics Bulletin | 2224-9893 | 58 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Himia Fizika ta Tehnologia Poverhni | 2079-1704 | 55 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research | 0971-0426 | 55 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | India |
| Stroitel stvo nauka i obrazovanie [Construction Science and Education] | 2305-5502 | 55 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Nanotechnologies in Construction A Scientific Internet-Journal | 2075-8545 | 54 | 3 | ≈ ₹59,146 to publish | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Technologies & Quality | 2587-6147 | 54 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| International Journal of Current Research in Science Engineering & Technology | 2581-4311 | 53 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | |
| Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY | 2590-4132 | 51 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Algeria |
| The European Journal of Research and Development | 2822-2296 | 46 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | |
| Futuristic Biotechnology | 2959-0973 | 44 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Pakistan |
| Journal of Physical Studies | 1027-4642 | 44 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Ukraine |
| Construction and Architecture | 2308-0191 | 43 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| RUDN Journal of Engineering Researches | 2312-8143 | 43 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Structural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings | 1815-5235 | 43 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Problems of Strength and Plasticity | 1814-9146 | 42 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Synthesis lectures on chemical engineering and biochemical engineering | 2327-6738 | 42 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Lafia Journal of Scientific and industrial Research | 3026-9288 | 41 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Nauru |
| Scientific Research Journal | 1675-7009 | 41 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Malaysia |
| Journal of nano research | 1661-9889 | 40 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Switzerland |
| Bulletin of the Karaganda University Physics Series | 2518-7198 | 39 | 3 | KZT 20,000 to publish | Yes | Yes | Kazakhstan |
| Journal of Thermoelectricity | 1607-8829 | 39 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology | 2574-8114 | 37 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Tribology /Journal of the Egyptian Society of Tribology | 2090-5882 | 37 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Egypt |
| Liquid Crystals and their Application | 1991-3966 | 37 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Modern Trends in Construction Urban and Territorial Planning | 2949-1835 | 37 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Molecular Science | 1000-9035 | 36 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Radioactive waste | 2587-9707 | 36 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Bulletin of Science and Research Center of Construction | 2224-9494 | 35 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Casting processes | 0235-5884 | 35 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Ukraine |
| Concrete and Reinforced Concrete | 0005-9889 | 35 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Frontier materials & technologies | 2782-4039 | 35 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute | 1346-8804 | 35 | 3 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Japan |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Physical-Technical Series | 1561-8358 | 35 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Belarus |
| Composites Mechanics Computations Applications An International Journal | 2152-2057 | 34 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Sovremennaâ èlektrometallurgiâ | 2415-8445 | 34 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Ukraine |
| Architecture and Engineering | 2500-0055 | 33 | 3 | ≈ ₹13,060 to publish | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Journal of Innovation and Technology | 2805-5179 | 33 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | Malaysia |
| ChemSci advances. | 2997-9587 | 32 | 3 | Fee not published | No | No | OHU |
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