The Journal Citation Reports® 2015, published by Thomson Reuters, have been released; highlights in the Materials Today family, include:
| Progress in Materials Science |
27.417 |
| Progress in Polymer Science |
26.932 |
| Materials Science & Engineering R |
15.500 |
| Nano Today |
15.000 |
| Materials Today |
14.107 |
| Nano Energy |
10.325 |
| Biomaterials |
8.557 |
As well as substantial increases for:
Acta Materialia (+13% => 4.465); Corrosion Science (+20% => 4.422); Materials & Design (+10% => 3.501); Cement and Concrete Composites (+21% => 3.330); Scripta Materialia (+9% => 3.224); Journal of Alloys & Compounds (+10% => 2.999); Journal of the European Ceramic Society (+28% => 2.947); Materials Research Bulletin (+16% => 2.288).
All of the latest Impact Factors for journals in Elsevier's Materials Today family can be found via the Journals tab above.
Louise Curtis, Publishing Director for Materials Science Journals at Elsevier, offered her thanks to the community for their support of the publications, "I would like to offer a sincere thank-you on behalf of the Elsevier's Materials Today team to the editors, editorial boards, authors and reviewers whose contribution to the successful development of these titles has been reflected in improving impact metrics".
As the academic community has long been demanding more transparency, choice and accuracy in journal assessment, two alternative views of the citation impact a journal makes are also now available: the SNIP and SJR. To find more information on the metrics for each of the journals, in the Materials Today family, visit the individual Journal Homepages, accessible from the Journals tab above.