Materials (journal)

Materials is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering materials science and engineering. It was established in 2008 and is published by MDPI. The editor-in-chief is Maryam Tabrizian (McGill University). The journal publishes reviews, regular research papers, short communications, and book reviews. There are currently hundreds of calls for submissions to special issues, a fact that has led to serious concerns.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • CAB Abstracts

• Chemical Abstracts Service

• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology

• EBSCO databases

• Ei Compendex

• Inspec

• ProQuest databases

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.748.