Acta Materialia

Discipline	Materials science
Language	English
Edited by	Christopher A. Schuh
Publication details
Former name(s)	Acta Metallurgica, Acta Metallurgica et Materialia
History	1953–present
Publisher	on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc., currently is Elsevier
Frequency	20/year
Impact factor	9.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Acta Mater.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	AMATEB
ISSN	1359-6454 (print) 1873-2453 (web)
LCCN	96643329
OCLC no.	473236745
Links
Journal homepage Online access Acta Materialia online archive Nanostructured Materials archive

Acta Materialia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published twenty times per year on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. The current publisher is Elsevier. The coordinating editor is Christopher A. Schuh. The journal covers research on all aspects of the structure and properties of materials and publishes original papers and commissioned reviews called Overviews.^[1]

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. Since 1956, it has been published by Pergamon Press, with the imprint being retained for some time after the acquisition by Elsevier. It incorporates Nanostructured Materials that was published independently from 1992 to 1999. Scripta Materialia was established in 1967 as a companion journal, publishing rapid communications as well as opinion articles called Viewpoints.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 9.4.^[2]