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Best Instrumentation journals

187 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Instrumentation. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 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 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation 10.2 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
15 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 9.8 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
16 Measurement: Sensors 9.6 92nd Q1 – – Yes
17 IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 9.6 91st Q1 ESCI – No
18 Measurement: Food 9.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Sensors 9.4 91st 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 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
35 Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy 6.4 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
36 Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 6.1 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
37 Journal of Radars 6.1 82nd Q1 – – Yes
38 Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 6 81st Q1 SCIE – No
39 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5.4 81st 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 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
56 Internet of Things 4.5 73rd Q2 – – No
57 Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 4.5 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
58 Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 4.4 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
59 Applied Spectroscopy 4.4 71st Q2 SCIE – No
60 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4.4 71st 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 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
76 Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation 3.5 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
77 Structural Dynamics 3.5 62nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
78 Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology 3.4 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
79 International Review of Electrical Engineering 3.3 61st Q2 – – No
80 ROBOMECH Journal 3.3 61st 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 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
97 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2.5 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
98 International Review of Automatic Control 2.5 52nd Q2 – – No
99 Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 2.5 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
100 International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation 2.4 51st Q2 – – No
101 Image Analysis and Stereology 2.4 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
102 Journal of Instrumentation 2.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
103 Laser Physics 2.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
104 EPJ Applied Physics 2.2 48th Q3 SCIE – No
105 Metrology and Measurement Systems 2.1 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
106 Astrophysical Bulletin 1.9 46th Q3 SCIE – No
107 Sensors and Materials 1.9 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
108 Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation 1.9 45th Q3 – – No
109 Instrumentation Mesure Metrologie 1.9 44th Q3 – – No
110 International Journal of Electronics Letters 1.9 44th Q3 – – No
111 Aerosol Research 1.9 43rd Q3 – – Yes
112 Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems 1.9 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
113 Guang Pu Xue Yu Guang Pu Fen Xi/Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis 1.8 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
114 Mass Spectrometry 1.8 42nd Q3 – – Yes
115 Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics 1.7 41st Q3 ESCI – No
116 Technisches Messen 1.7 41st Q3 SCIE – No
117 Powder Diffraction 1.6 41st Q3 SCIE – No
118 Accreditation and Quality Assurance 1.6 40th Q3 SCIE – No
119 Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering 1.6 40th Q3 – – Yes
120 Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays 1.6 39th Q3 ESCI – No
121 Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering 1.5 38th Q3 SCIE – No
122 Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan 1.5 37th Q3 – – No
123 Microscopy and Microanalysis 1.5 37th Q3 SCIE – No
124 Jiliang Xuebao/Acta Metrologica Sinica 1.4 36th Q3 – – No
125 Journal of Thermal Science and Technology 1.4 36th Q3 SCIE – Yes
126 Journal of Measurements in Engineering 1.3 35th Q3 ESCI – No
127 Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure 1.2 35th Q3 – – No
128 IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine 1.2 34th Q3 – – No
129 Zhendong Ceshi Yu Zhenduan/Journal of Vibration, Measurement and Diagnosis 1.2 34th Q3 – – Yes
130 RAICS - IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems 1 33rd Q3 – – No
131 Nukleonika 1 32nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
132 Measurement Techniques 1 31st Q3 ESCI – No
133 Particle Acceleration and Detection 1 31st Q3 – – No
134 Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics 0.9 30th Q3 ESCI – No
135 Optoelectronics, Instrumentation and Data Processing 0.9 29th Q3 ESCI – No
136 Proceedings of the IEEE International Multi Topic Conference, INMIC 0.9 28th Q3 – – No
137 Instruments and Experimental Techniques 0.8 28th Q3 SCIE – No
138 Photonics Russia 0.7 27th Q3 – – No
139 Radiation Physics and Engineering 0.7 26th Q3 – – Yes
140 Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications, ICSIMA 0.6 25th Q3 – – No
141 Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea 0.5 24th Q4 ESCI – No
142 Proceedings - International Seminar on Intelligent Technology and its Applications, ISITIA 0.5 24th Q4 – – No
143 Emergent Scientist 0.5 23rd Q4 – – Yes
144 Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE 0.5 23rd Q4 – – No
145 International Conference on Localization and GNSS, ICL-GNSS 0.5 22nd Q4 – – No
146 Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions 0.5 21st Q4 – – No
147 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, EMC Europe 0.5 21st Q4 – – No
148 Proceedings - International Conference on Electronics Technology, ICET 0.4 20th Q4 – – No
149 Proceedings of the Open Conference of Electrical, Electronic and Information Sciences, eStream 0.4 20th Q4 – – No
150 Annual Symposium of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, AMTA 0.4 19th Q4 – – No
151 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication, ICSC 0.4 18th Q4 – – No
152 Proceedings of the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 0.4 18th Q4 – – No
153 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies, ICEET 0.3 17th Q4 – – No
154 Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering 0.3 17th Q4 – – No
155 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Geoscience, Electronics and Remote Sensing Technology, AGERS 0.3 16th Q4 – – No
156 Iranian Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS 0.3 16th Q4 – – No
157 International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems, IWMTS 0.3 15th Q4 – – No
158 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Photonics, EExPolytech 0.3 14th Q4 – – No
159 Proceedings of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 0.3 14th Q4 – – No
160 International Symposium on Medical Robotics, ISMR 0.3 13th Q4 – – No
161 Acta Microscopica 0.2 13th Q4 – – No
162 International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 0.2 12th Q4 – – No
163 International Youth Conference on Radio Electronics, Electrical and Power Engineering, REEPE 0.2 12th Q4 – – No
164 Zhuzao/Foundry 0.2 12th Q4 – – No
165 International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems, ISISS 0.2 10th Q4 – – No
166 Proceedings of the International Conference Radioelektronika, RADIOELEKTRONIKA 0.2 10th Q4 – – No
167 ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference, ARFTG 0.2 9th Q4 – – No
168 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 0.2 9th Q4 – – No
169 ICMMT - International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology 0.2 8th Q4 – – No
170 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 0.1 8th Q4 – – No
171 Proceedings of the Symposium on Design, Test, Integration, and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 0.1 8th Q4 – – No
172 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 0.1 7th Q4 – – No
173 International Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Microsystems, ASDAM 0.1 7th Q4 – – No
174 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers 0.1 6th Q4 – – No
175 Proceedings of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP 0.1 6th Q4 – – No
176 InTech 0 5th Q4 – – No
177 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and Time Forum, FCS 0 5th Q4 – – No
178 IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems Proceedings, AMPS 0 4th Q4 – – No
179 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces, IWASI 0 4th Q4 – – No
180 International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems, ICEES 0 3rd Q4 – – No
181 UK, Europe, China Millimetre Waves and THZ Technology Workshop, UCMMT 0 3rd Q4 – – No
182 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile, APWiMob 0 1st Q4 – – No
183 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite, ComNetSat 0 1st Q4 – – No
184 IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering, ENBENG 0 1st Q4 – – No
185 International Conference on Electronic Measurement and Instruments 0 1st Q4 – – No
186 Latin American Electron Devices Conference, LAEDC 0 1st Q4 – – No
187 Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Computer Science, EnT 0 1st Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Instrumentation Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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