Acta Materialia
Acta Materialia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published twenty times per year on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc.. The current publisher is Elsevier. The coordinating editor is Christopher A. Schuh, Danae and Vasilis Salapatas Professor of Metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The journal covers research on all aspects of the structure and properties of materials and publishes original papers and commissioned reviews called Overviews.
Discipline | Materials science |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Christopher A Schuh |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Acta Metallurgica, Acta Metallurgica et Materialia |
History | 1953–present |
Publisher | on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc., currently is Elsevier |
Frequency | 20/year |
7.293 (2018) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Acta Mater. |
Indexing | |
CODEN | AMATEB |
ISSN | 1359-6454 |
LCCN | 96643329 |
OCLC no. | 473236745 |
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History
The journal was established in 1953 as Acta Metallurgica and renamed to Acta Metallurgica et Materialia in 1990, before obtaining its current name in 1996. Since 1956, it has been published by Pergamon Press, with the imprint being retained for some time after the acquisition by Elsevier. It incorporates Nanostructured Materials that was published independently from 1992-1999. Scripta Materialia was established in 1967 as a companion journal, publishing rapid communications as well as option articles called Viewpoints.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Applied Mechanics Reviews
- Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
- Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Engineering Index
- Inspec
- Materials Science Citation Index
- Science Citation Index
- Metals Abstracts
- PASCAL
- Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 7.293.[1]
See also
- Physical metallurgy
- Materials Science
References
- "Acta Materialia". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2019.