The ''Journal of Materials Science'' is a weekly

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covering all aspects of materials science. It was established in 1966 by

Robert W. Cahn Robert Wolfgang Cahn FRS (9 September 1924 – 9 April 2007) was a British metallurgist whose contributions to physical metallurgy centred on the properties of dislocations. Cahn developed a successful model for the nucleation of recrystallis ...

and is published by

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. The journal incorporated ''Journal of Materials Science Letters'' in 2003 and ''Interface Science'' in 2004. The

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is C. Barry Carter (

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). In 2012, the journal announced an annual "Cahn Prize" for best paper published in the journal, in honor of its founding editor. In 2021, the journal announced a similar annual "Bonfield Prize" for best review paper published in the journal, in honor of a former Editor-in-Chief,

William Bonfield William Bonfield CBE, FREng, FRS (born 6 March 1937) is a British material scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge. Life He earned a BSc with First Class Honours, and PhD at Imperial College, London. ...

. There are two more specialized sister journals, '' Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine'' and '' Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 4.220, ranking it 82nd out of 293 journals in the category "Materials Science, Multidisciplinary".

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Abstracting and indexing

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