Smart Materials and Structures
# Smart Materials and Structures

Smart Materials and Structures is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering technical advances in smart materials, systems, structures and device engineering.

The initial editors-in-chief starting in 1992 were Vijay K. Varadan (Pennsylvania State University), Gareth J. Knowles (Grumman Corporation), and Richard O. Claus (Virginia Tech); in 2008 Ephrahim Garcia (Cornell University) took over as editor-in-chief until 2014. Christopher S. Lynch (University of California, Los Angeles) assumed the position of editor-in-chief in 2015.

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* Aluminium Industry Abstracts
* Applied Mechanics Reviews
* Bioengineering Abstracts
* Chemical Abstracts
* Environmental Engineering Abstracts
* Engineering Index/Compendex
* Engineered Materials Abstracts
* Inspec
* Materials Science Citation Index
* Metals Abstracts
* PASCAL
* VINITI Database RAS

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.585.

