''Acta Materialia'' is a
peer-reviewed scientific journal published twenty times per year on behalf of
Acta Materialia Inc. The current publisher is
Elsevier
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. The coordinating editor is
Christopher A. Schuh, Danae and Vasilis Salapatas Professor of Metallurgy at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. The journal covers research on all aspects of the
structure and properties of materials and publishes original papers and commissioned reviews called Overviews.
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
Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals. Originally called Butterworth-Springer, it is now an imprint of Elsevier.
History
The ...
, 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
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 8.203.
See also
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Physical metallurgy {{unreferenced, date=April 2017
Physical metallurgy is one of the two main branches of the scientific approach to metallurgy, which considers in a systematic way the physical properties of metals and alloys. It is basically the fundamentals and ap ...
*
Materials Science
References
External links
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Acta Materialia Open Access Articles
Biweekly journals
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Materials science journals
Publications established in 1953
Publications established in 1992
Publications disestablished in 1999
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