''Synthetic Metals'' is a
peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials.
Abstracting and indexing
''Synthetic Metals'' is abstracted and indexed in the following services:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...
'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
of 3.266. It has published several highly cited papers (1 with ~1000 citations; 5 with >600 citations; 30 with >200 citations, according to
Web of Science); most of them are devoted to
conductive polymer
Conductive polymers or, more precisely, intrinsically conducting polymers (ICPs) are organic polymers that conduct electricity. Such compounds may have metallic conductivity or can be semiconductors. The biggest advantage of conductive polymers ...
s (especially
polyaniline
Polyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer and organic semiconductor of the semi-flexible rod polymer family. The compound has been of interest since the 1980s because of its electrical conductivity and mechanical properties. Polyaniline is one of ...
) and one to
optical properties of carbon nanotubes
The optical properties of carbon nanotubes are highly relevant for materials science. The way those materials interact with electromagnetic radiation is unique in many respects, as evidenced by their peculiar absorption, photoluminescence (fl ...
[
] (see
Kataura plot).
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Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Semi-monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1985
Materials science journals
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