Materials Today Communications (Journal Impact Factor* 1.859, CiteScore 1.98) is a primary research journal covering all areas of materials science. The journal offers the materials community a fast, innovative, efficient and flexible route for the publication of original research and reviews.
Highly experienced editorial teams from Materials Today Communications and the Supporting Journals ensure that all papers are rigorously and fairly assessed; providing rapid publication and high visibility of scientifically robust work.
Materials Today Communications publishes original research papers and reviews of any length, and follows a hybrid publication model, providing authors with the option to publish their papers Open Access for a fee, or publish for free via the Subscription route.
Articles transferred to Materials Today Communications after peer review may be offered immediate publication without additional review**.
*Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)**This process is referred to as "Transferred Acceptance" or "Transfer Recommended Accept". Acceptance is provisional and depends on satisfactorily addressing any Editor and/or Referee comments, as judged by the Editors of Materials Today Communications. "Transfer Recommended Accept" cannot be implemented for articles transferred without peer-review comments. For more information on "Transfer Recommended Accept" and other types of article transfer available within Elsevier's materials science journals, visit https://www.materialstoday.com/article-transfer-service/.
Editorial board
Editors
- Rebecca Boston
The University of Sheffield Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 1 White Hart Corner, Eckington, S1 3JD, Sheffield, United Kingdom - Ana Ferreira-Duarte
Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Lars Giebeler
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, 01069, Dresden, Germany - Alexander Lunt
University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering, Claverton Down, BA2 7AY, Bath, United Kingdom - Tomas Martin
University of Bristol, United Kingdom - Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier
Arts and Crafts ParisTech, 75013, Paris, France - Janelle P. Wharry
Purdue University College of Engineering, Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907, United States - Wei Zhai
National University of Singapore Department of Mechanical Engineering, Singapore - Houlong Zhuang
Arizona State University School of Engineering of Matters Transport and Energy, 501 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, Arizona, AZ 85287, United States
Managing Editor
Supporting Journals
The following journals are able to transfer manuscripts to Materials Today Communications. Materials Today Communications is currently not open for direct submissions.
- Applied Materials Today - editorial board
- Biomaterials - editorial board
- Carbon - editorial board
- Cement and Concrete Research - editorial board
- Composite Structures - editorial board
- Composites Part B - editorial board
- Composites Science and Technology - editorial board
- Computational Materials Science - editorial board
- Corrosion Science - editorial board
- Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science - editorial board
- Diamond and Related Materials - editorial board
- European Polymer - editorial board
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds - editorial board
- Materials Characterization - editorial board
- Materials Letters - editorial board
- Materials Science and Engineering: A - editorial board
- Materials Science and Engineering: B - editorial board
- Materials Science and Engineering: C - editorial board
- Materials Today Chemistry - editorial board
- Materials Today Energy - editorial board
- Materials Today Nano - editorial board
- Materials Today Physics - editorial board
- Materials Today - editorial board
- Materials & Design - editorial board
- Nano Today - editorial board
- Polymer Degradation and Stability - editorial board
- Polymer Testing - editorial board
- Polymer - editorial board
- Progress in Organic Coatings - editorial board
- Reactive and Functional Polymers - editorial board