Materials Today Communications (Journal Impact Factor 2.678; CiteScore 2.8) 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.
Part of the Materials Today family, 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
Managing Editor
- Robert Moran
Please address all correspondence to the Managing Editor
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 - Seong S. Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanguggwahakgisulwon Guseong-Dong, 305-701, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of - Xiao-Qiang Liu
Zhejiang University School of Materials Science and Engineering, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, China - 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 - Ian Teasdale
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Altenbergerstraße, A-4040, Linz, Austria - 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 for Engineering of Matter Transport and Energy, 501 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, Arizona, AZ 85287, United States
Editorial Board Members
- Shradha Agarwal
The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States - Jiaming Bai
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China - Juan Balach
National University of Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina - Anne Campbell
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States - Margarita Darder
Madrid Institute of Materials Science, Madrid, Spain - Amit Das
Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany - Mao-Sen Fu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China - Amy Gandy
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom - Mohit Gupta
Intel, United States - Saurabh Kabra
Science and Technology Facilities Council, Swindon, United Kingdom - Deepak Kalaskar
University College London, London, United Kingdom - Huanglong Li
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - QianQian Li
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom - Verena Maier-Kiener
University of Mining, Leoben, Austria - Colleen Mann
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom - Clara Mattu
Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy - Gaurav Mohanty
Tampere University, Tampere, Finland - Marloes Peeters
Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Theresa Schoetz
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom - Matteo Seita
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore - Adriana C. Serquis
Balseiro Institute, San Carlos De Bariloche, Argentina - Peng Song
Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China - Xu Song
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong - Alejandro Presa Soto
University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain - Heloise Therien-Aubin
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany - Pan Wang
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Innovis, Singapore - Natalie Wint
Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom - Hui (Claire) Xiong
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, United States - Baicheng Zhang
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
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