In 2020, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini celebrates 10 years as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of (LINK:). The journal is one of the "classical" journals in the field of materials science and engineering, which was founded in 1982 and it has seen a continuous increase of the impact factor (IF) over the years, the current IF is 3.204 with a CiteScore of 5.5. The journal belongs to the , (LINK: https://www.materialstoday.com/journals ) published by Elsevier.
Marking ten years as EiC of Materials Letters, Prof. Boccaccini said: "It is a great honour to be the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Letters, one of the most recognised journals in the materials science field. In the last ten years the journal has continued to grow, in terms of number of papers published and citations received. Indeed our editors' team has grown accordingly - we have now an excellent team of twelve editors and two managing editors - whose expertise covers the most varied areas in the materials field. The journal published 1,650 papers in 2019 with around 50,000 total citations, articles published in Materials Letters were downloaded more than two million times in 2019, highlighting the impact of the journal”.