Materials Science and Engineering A

Materials Science and Engineering: A — Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the section of Materials Science and Engineering dedicated to "theoretical and experimental studies related to the load-bearing capacity of materials as influenced by their basic properties, processing history, microstructure and operating environment" and is published monthly by Elsevier. The current editor-in-chiefs are H. W. Hahn (University of Oklahoma), E. J. Lavernia (University of California Irvine), and B. B. Wei (Northwestern Polytechnical University).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases: • Science Citation Index Expanded

• Academic Search Premier

• Aerospace Database

• Chemical Abstracts Core

• Civil Engineering Abstracts

• Communication Abstracts

• INSPEC

• Metadex

• PASCAL

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 6.4, ranking 9th out of 79 in the category 'Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering'.