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Best Instrumentation journals

187 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Instrumentation. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 52 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Electronics 52.5 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 27 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 15.2 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 14.9 98th Q1 SCIE No
5 Light: Advanced Manufacturing 14 97th Q1 ESCI Yes
6 ISA Transactions 13.9 97th Q1 SCIE No
7 ACS Sensors 13.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
8 Biosensors 12.1 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
9 Journal of Analysis and Testing 11.9 95th Q1 ESCI No
10 Journal of Remote Sensing (United States) 11.4 95th Q1 ESCI Yes
11 Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 11.3 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
12 Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal 11.3 94th Q1 SCIE No
13 Sensors and Actuators Reports 10.6 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
14 Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation 10.2 93th Q1 SCIE No
15 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 9.8 92th Q1 SCIE No
16 Measurement: Sensors 9.6 92th Q1 Yes
17 IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 9.6 91th Q1 ESCI No
18 Measurement: Food 9.5 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
19 Sensors 9.4 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
20 IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 9.1 90th Q1 No
21 Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 9 90th Q1 SCIE No
22 IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification 8.4 89th Q1 ESCI No
23 Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 8.2 89th Q1 SCIE No
24 IEEE Sensors Journal 7.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
25 Vacuum 7.6 88th Q1 SCIE No
26 Mechanics of Materials 7.5 87th Q1 SCIE No
27 IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology 7.4 87th Q1 ESCI No
28 Experimental Heat Transfer 7.4 86th Q1 SCIE No
29 Journal of Sensors 7.2 86th Q1 SCIE No
30 Advanced Devices and Instrumentation 7.2 85th Q1 ESCI Yes
31 IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 7.2 85th Q1 ESCI No
32 International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications 6.9 84th Q1 No
33 PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science 6.9 84th Q1 SCIE No
34 Thermochimica Acta 6.7 83th Q1 SCIE No
35 Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy 6.4 83th Q1 SCIE No
36 Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 6.1 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
37 Journal of Radars 6.1 82th Q1 Yes
38 Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 6 81th Q1 SCIE No
39 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5.4 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
40 EJNMMI Physics 5.3 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Optical Fiber Technology 5.3 80th Q1 SCIE No
42 Chinese Physics C 5.1 79th Q1 SCIE No
43 Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 5.1 79th Q1 SCIE Yes
44 International Journal of Optomechatronics 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
45 Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE No
46 Measurement and Control (United Kingdom) 5.1 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
47 Microscopy Research and Technique 5 77th Q1 SCIE No
48 Flow Measurement and Instrumentation 4.8 76th Q1 SCIE No
49 Measurement Science and Technology 4.8 76th Q1 SCIE No
50 Advanced Optical Technologies 4.8 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
51 International Journal of Thermophysics 4.8 75th Q1 SCIE No
52 EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 4.7 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
53 Ultramicroscopy 4.7 74th Q2 SCIE No
54 HardwareX 4.6 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
55 IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 4.5 73th Q2 ESCI No
56 Internet of Things 4.5 73th Q2 No
57 Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 4.5 72th Q2 SCIE No
58 Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 4.4 72th Q2 SCIE No
59 Applied Spectroscopy 4.4 71th Q2 SCIE No
60 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4.4 71th Q2 SCIE No
61 New Astronomy 4.4 70th Q2 SCIE No
62 Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 4.3 70th Q2 SCIE No
63 Animal Biotelemetry 4.3 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
64 National Remote Sensing Bulletin 4.3 69th Q2 No
65 Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 4.2 68th Q2 No
66 IEEE Sensors Letters 4.2 68th Q2 ESCI No
67 Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 4.2 67th Q2 SCIE Yes
68 Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 4.2 67th Q2 SCIE No
69 Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing 4.1 66th Q2 ESCI No
70 Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering 4.1 66th Q2 ESCI Yes
71 Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control 4 65th Q2 SCIE No
72 Microscopy (Oxford, England) 3.9 65th Q2 SCIE No
73 Photonics 3.9 64th Q2 SCIE Yes
74 International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 3.8 64th Q2 SCIE No
75 IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement 3.7 63th Q2 ESCI Yes
76 Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation 3.5 63th Q2 ESCI No
77 Structural Dynamics 3.5 62th Q2 SCIE Yes
78 Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology 3.4 62th Q2 SCIE No
79 International Review of Electrical Engineering 3.3 61th Q2 No
80 ROBOMECH Journal 3.3 61th Q2 ESCI Yes
81 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE No
82 Journal of Laser Applications 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE No
83 Radiation Measurements 3.1 59th Q2 SCIE No
84 Sensing and Imaging 3.1 59th Q2 ESCI No
85 Instrumentation Science and Technology 3 58th Q2 SCIE No
86 Journal of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science 3 58th Q2 SCIE Yes
87 Review of Scientific Instruments 3 58th Q2 SCIE No
88 Acta IMEKO 2.9 57th Q2 ESCI Yes
89 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2.9 57th Q2 SCIE No
90 International Journal of Geoinformatics 2.9 56th Q2 No
91 Ad-Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks 2.8 56th Q2 SCIE No
92 Instruments 2.8 55th Q2 ESCI Yes
93 Measurement Science Review 2.8 55th Q2 SCIE Yes
94 Laser Physics Letters 2.7 54th Q2 SCIE No
95 Yi Qi Yi Biao Xue Bao/Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument 2.7 54th Q2 No
96 Phase Transitions 2.7 53th Q2 SCIE No
97 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2.5 53th Q2 SCIE No
98 International Review of Automatic Control 2.5 52th Q2 No
99 Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 2.5 52th Q2 SCIE No
100 International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation 2.4 51th Q2 No

Rank and percentile are within the Instrumentation Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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