Acta Materialia
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Former names | Acta Metallurgica, Acta Metallurgica et Materialia |
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Mater. |
| Discipline | Materials science |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Christopher A Schuh |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Elsevier on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. |
Publication history | 1953–present |
| Frequency | 20/year |
| 5.058 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
1359-6454 |
| LCCN | 96643329 |
| CODEN | AMATEB |
| OCLC no. | 473236745 |
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Acta Materialia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published twenty times per year by Elsevier on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. 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.
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. 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 2015 impact factor of 5.058.[1]
References
- ↑ "Acta Materialia". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.