Materials (journal)
# 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.

