• 
• http://www.nature.com/naturematerials
• Editor: Vincent Dusastre
• Volume 7: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 1476-1122
• EISSN: 1476-4660
• Impact factor : 19.782*
• Impact ranking: 2/189 in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; 1/94 in Physics, Applied; 1/110 in Chemistry, Physical; 1/61 in Physics, Condensed Matter*
• Date Established: September 2002
• Published on behalf of:

No. 1 journal in materials science and related physical sciences

Aims and Scope:

Nature Materials is a multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and technology. Nature Materials covers all applied and fundamental aspects of the synthesis/processing, structure/composition, properties and performance of materials.

Nature Materials provides a forum for the development of a common identity among materials scientists while encouraging researchers to cross established subdisciplinary lines. To achieve this, Nature Materials takes an interdisciplinary, integrated and balanced approach to all areas of materials research while fostering the exchange of ideas between scientists involved in different communities.

Readership:

All physicists, chemists, engineers, biologists and materials scientists, in both academia and industry, who are active in the process of discovering and developing materials and materials-related concepts.

Nature Materials provides:

• Correspondence - Nature Materials seeks to promote discussion of issues relevant to materials science research and invites insightful, provocative and polemical correspondence.
• Commentary - opinion pieces on topics of general interest to the materials research community.
• Research Highlights - short updates on new papers, including details of new web resources in short 'Web- Watch' articles.
• News and Views - News & Views articles inform readers about the latest advances in materials research, as reported in published papers (appearing in Nature Materials or elsewhere) and at scientific meetings.
• Reviews/Progress - articles designed to inform readers of fields and advances that are undergoing unusually rapid or exciting development.
• Letters/Articles - short, peer-reviewed reports of original research, selected for their broad interest to our readership.
• Research - original research covering a wide variety of topics in materials science and engineering covering many aspects of chemistry, physics, biology and nanotechnology.

What makes Nature Materials stand apart from other resources?

• High Quality Research - the journal provides peer-reviewed original research from the leading researchers across the entire spectrum of materials science and technology. This is reflected in its high impact factor of 15.491*, placing Nature Materials not only first among materials science journals but also across all the primary research journals in physics and chemistry.
• Unequalled quality - the Nature brand's emphasis is on editorial excellence and online innovation. Nature Materials continues this tradition, publishing the most innovative and important research advances across all of materials science and engineering.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to September 2002.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only. Archive content not included in the license agreement is available to purchase.
• Users have access to all the online features of nature.com. Find out more >>
• Site license customers will benefit from the services available. Find out more >>
• Indexed in Current Contents, Science Citation Index, Medline (PubMed) and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.

*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)