About this journal
Aims and scope
Materials Research Letters is a high impact, open access journal on the science and technology of advanced, novel and emergent materials.
Materials Research Letters supports the materials research community by publishing original and compelling research work.
Materials Research Letters provides fast communications on cutting-edge materials research findings. It primarily focuses on advanced metallic materials and physical metallurgy including the deformation mechanisms, structures, processing and properties of metals and alloys. Other materials including intermetallics, ceramics, and nanocomposites will also be considered.
Materials Research Letters publishes papers with significant breakthroughs in materials science, including the materials science for unprecedented mechanical and functional properties, the mechanism for processing and formation of novel microstructures including, but not limited to, nanostructures, heterostructures and hierarchical structures, as well as the mechanisms, physics and chemistry responsible for the observed mechanical and functional behaviors of advanced materials.
The journal accepts original research letters, brief overviews of critical issues, and perspective pieces that present provocative and visionary opinions and views.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 436K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 8.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 8.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 12.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 2.111 (2023) SNIP
- 2.438 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 3 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 25 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 25% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors-in-Chief:
Prof. Yuntian T. Zhu - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Heterogeneous materials, gradient materials, nanostructured metals, deformation twinning, deformation physics, crystalline defects, mechanical properties, microstructures, CNT composites, CNT film, CNT synthesis.
Prof. Chunyi Zhi, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Energy storage materials, batteries, supercapacitors, flexible energy storage devices, electrocatalysts, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials
Managing Editor:
Dr. Yue Yang - Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Editorial Associates:
Prof. Yong Zhang - Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Prof. Hao Zhou - Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Editors:
Prof. Long-Qing Chen - Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Mesoscale computational materials science, domain structures in ferroics, precipitate morphologies and Ostwald ripening, ionic transport in solid electrolytes, dielectric capacitor degradation and breakdown, multiscale modeling integrating atomistic/first principles calculations with phase-field method of with kinetic Monte Carlo method
Prof. Miaofeng Chi - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
Electron Microscopy, Energy Materials such as lithium ion battery materials and fuel cell catalysts
Prof. Michael Farle - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Spin- and orbitronics, magnetism in nanostructured metals and insulators, nanoparticles and clusters, thin films, surface/interface physics, magneto-calorics, magnetic shape memory alloys, magnetic characterization, high-resolution transmission electron spectroscopy
Prof. Horst Hahn - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Nanotechnology, Germany
Ceramics, Nano materials, energy materials
Prof. Xiaoxu Huang - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Dislocation tomography, X-ray tomography, TEM, Nanostructured metals, heterostructured metals
Prof. Javier Liorca - Polytechnic University of Madrid & IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain
Modeling, Mechanics of Materials, Materials engineering, ab initio, cluster expansion, molecular mechanics, dislocation dynamics, phase field, computational thermodynamics, computational mechanics
Prof. J. Ping Liu - University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
Magnetic nanoparticles, nanostructured bulk magnetic materials, magnetic films
Prof. Suveen N. Mathaudhu - Colorado School of Mines, USA; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Physical metallurgy, bulk nanostructured materials, powder metallurgy, lightweight metals, deformation, mechanical behavior of materials
Prof. Amit Misra - University of Michigan, USA
Nanomechanics, transmission electron microscopy, dislocation theory, structural metallic materials, thin films, multilayers, nanocomposites and nanostructured materials, radiation damage, physical vapour deposition, severe plastic deformation
Prof. Yang Ren - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Physics
Phase transition, Synchrotron X-ray, Neutron scattering, Structural materials, Functional materials
Prof. Matteo Seita – Cambridge University, UK
Metal additive manufacturing, solidification of metals and metal alloys, site-specific microstructure control and design, sustainable metallurgy, grain boundary engineering, high-throughput microstructure characterisation, environment-assisted degradation of materials, thin film technology, ion irradiation
Prof. Srinivasan G. Srivilliputhur - University of North Texas, TX, USA
Computational materials science, atomistic modelling, development of high-fidelity interatomic potentials, ab-initio simulations, deformation behavior and defect physics, phase transformations and structure property-relations in metals and alloys, parallel computing and visualisation
Prof. Hyoung Seop Kim - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Pohang, Korea
Multi-scale mechanics and plasticity modeling, integrated microstructure-processing-property optimization, severe plastic deformation, high-entropy alloy, porous materials, crystal plasticity finite element method, architectured materials, heterogeneous and architectured materials, machine learning material design
Prof. Rodney Trice - School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, IN, USA
Thermal Barrier Coatings, High Temperature Properties of Ceramics, Ceramic Processing, electrophoretic deposition, sodium sulfate hot corrosion
Prof. Nobuhiro Tsuji - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Physical Metallurgy, structural metallic materials, steels, non-ferrous metals and alloys, microstructure control; thermomechanical processing, metal working, severe plastic deformation (SPD), ultrafine grained (UFG) materials, static and dynamic recrystallization; dynamic transformation, strength, ductility; digital image correlation (DIC)
Editorial Review Board:
S. Pamir Alpay - University of Connecticut, USA
Kei Ameyama - Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Ilke Arslan - Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Irene Beyerlein - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Brad L. Boyce - Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Claudia Cantoni - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Daolun Chen - Ryerson University, Canada
Mingwei Chen - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Huiming Cheng - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Atul H. Chokshi - Indian Institute of Science, India
Beth Dickey - NC State University, North Carolina, USA
Yuri Dzenis - University of Nebraska, USA
David Dunand - Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Chang Beom Eom - University of Wisconsin, USA
Yuri Estrin - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Qiang (Charles) Feng - University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China
Yanfei Gao - University of Tennessee, USA
Zenji Horita - Kyushu University, Japan
Shenyang Hu - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Chi-Ching Huang - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Chongxiang Huang - Sichuan University, China
Mingxin Huang - The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Quanxi Jia - The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Djamel Kaoumi - North Carolina State University, USA
Ibrahim Karaman - Texas A&M University, USA
Tsuyoshi Kimura - Osaka University, Japan
Nan Li - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Xiaodong Li - University of Virginia, USA
Xiaozhou Liao - The University of Sydney, Australia
Yi Lin - National Institute of Aerospace, USA
Jie Liu - Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Wei Liu - Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zikui Liu – Penn State University, USA
Xujie Lü - Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, China
Alan A. Luo - Ohio State University, USA
Evan Ma – Johns Hopkins University, USA
Hans Jürgen Maier - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Scott Mao - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nathan Mara - University of Minnesota, USA
Flavio Maran - University of Padova, Italy
John-Paul Maria - Penn State University, USA
Dean Miller - Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Andrew M. Minor - University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Rajiv S. Mishra - University of North Texas, USA
Farghalli Mohamed – UC Irvine, USA
Jian-feng Nie - Monash University, Australia
Tae Won Noh - Seoul National University, Korea
Marek Niewczas - McMaster University, Canada
Reinhard Pippan - Austria Academy of Science, Austria
K.T. Ramesh - Johns Hopkins University , USA
Simon Ringer - University of Sydney, Australia
Zhifeng Ren - University of Houston, USA
Xavier Sauvage - CNRS, Normandy University, France
Kurt E. Sickafus - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Joseph B. Tracy - North Carolina State University, USA
Ming-Hung Tsai - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Mark Tschopp - Army Research Laboratory, USA
Ruslan Valiev - Ufa State Aviation Tech U, Russia
Blas Pedro Uberuaga - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Ben Wang - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jian Wang - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Yuzhi Wang - Ohio State University, USA
Dieter Wolf - Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Xiaolei Wu - Institute of Mechanics, CAS, China
Jian Xu – Institute of Metal Research, CAS, China
Yong Yang - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Michael Zehetbauer - Vienna University, Austria
Haibo Zeng - Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Xiangyi Zhang - Yanshan University, China
Advisory Board:
P. M. Ajayan - Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Michel W. Barsoum - Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Ray Baughman - University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Tsu-Wei Chou - University of Delaware, Delaware, USA
Herbert Gleiter – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
John Hirth – Washington State University, Washington, USA
Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University, Australia
Sungho Jin – UC San Diego, California, USA
Carl Koch - NC State University, North Carolina, USA
Terence Langdon - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Enrique Lavernia - UC Davis, California, USA
Ke Lu – Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang,China
Andreas Mortensen – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hael Mughrabi - U. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Cewen Nan - Tsinghua University, China
Jagdish Narayan - NC State University, North Carolina, USA
María Teresa Pérez-Prado - IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain
K.R. Rajagopal - Texas A&M University, USA
David N. Seidman – Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Chain Tsuan Liu - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jörg Weissmüller - Institute for Materials Physics and Materials Technology, Hamburg Technical University, Hamburg, Germany
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Abstracting and indexing
Materials Research Letters is abstracted and indexed in:
CASSI SM
Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Engineering, Computing & Technology
Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents® / Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded™
Clarivate Analytics: SciSearch®
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