Journal profile · Materials Science, Characterization & Testing
Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials
ISSN 1099-6362 · eISSN 1530-7972 · SAGE Publications Ltd · ENGLAND · Quarterly
Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials: CAS Zone 3 · Materials Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.4; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,400; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 75 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials is published by SAGE Publications Ltd and is in Zone 3 of Materials Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cellular and Composite Structures, Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization and Mechanical Behavior of Composites, together about 47.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials (JSSM) is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes original articles on the science, technology, and professional practices of sandwich structures. JSSM encourages manuscripts reporting analysis, design, testing, applications, manufacturing, material properties, strength and stiffness verification and quality assurance of sandwich structures and their material components. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jssm.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Materials Science, Characterization & Testing
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 6%); most named India 2, Italy 2, Canada 2, Belgium 2, Mainland China 1 (16 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cellular and Composite StructuresEngineering19.6%
- Composite Structure Analysis and OptimizationEngineering14.3%
- Mechanical Behavior of CompositesEngineering13.5%
- Structural Analysis and OptimizationEngineering7.4%
- Structural Analysis of Composite MaterialsEngineering5.5%
- Structural Load-Bearing AnalysisEngineering5.2%
- Vibration and Dynamic AnalysisEngineering4.2%
- Polymer composites and self-healingMaterials Science3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Materials Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Characterization & Testing | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Composites | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Materials Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Characterization & Testing | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Composites | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Materials Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Characterization & Testing | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Composites | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.4LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.94LetPub ·
- h-index
- 33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 63OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 770OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.93OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 7.8%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 75LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,367 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 63 | 7 | 12 |
| 2025 | 75 | 22 | 165 |
| 2024 | 77 | 20 | 452 |
| 2023 | 53 | 16 | 405 |
| 2022 | 56 | 5 | 634 |
| 2021 | 69 | 12 | 1,453 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 21.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,400 / GBP 3,226 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted11
- brief communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- letter to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
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- opinionPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- original research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- perspectivePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- short communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
- viewpointPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials provides a me…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 1099-6362
- Electronic ISSN
- 1530-7972
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials
What CAS zone is Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials is in Zone 3 of Materials Science, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Engineering, Mechanical / Materials Science, Characterization & Testing / Materials Science, Composites. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Materials Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.4; CiteScore 7.2, h-index 63.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials?
Authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 21.1%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials based?
Of the 16 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (2), Italy (2) and Canada (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,400.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .