Advanced Materials


Advanced Materials is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering materials science. It includes communications, reviews, and feature articles on topics in chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 27.398.

History

The journal was established in 1988 as a supplement to the general chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie and remained part of that journal for the first 18 months of its existence. The founding editor-in-chief was Peter Goelitz. The current editor-in-chief is Peter Gregory.
Originally the journal appeared monthly; it switched to 15 issues in 1997, 18 issues in 1998, and 24 issues in 2000. Since 2009 it has been published weekly, with 48 issues per year.

Sister journals

As the volume of research in materials science increased significantly since the 1990s, several journals were spun off, including: