Nature Reviews Materials

Nature Reviews Materials is published by Springer Nature and is in Zone 1 of Materials Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Perovskite Materials and Applications, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials and 2D Materials and Applications, together about 20.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Materials Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Nature Reviews Materials is an online-only journal for the weekly publication of Reviews, Perspectives and Comments in all scientific disciplines within materials science. Our Reviews aim to be balanced and objective analyses of the selected topic - with descriptions of relevant scientific literature and discussions that are easy to grasp for recent graduates in any materials-science related discipline, as well as informing principal investigators and industry-based research scientists of the latest advances. Reviews should provide the authors' insight into future directions and their opinion of the major challenges faced by researchers in the field. Perspectives - as the name suggests - take a look at a topic from a slightly different perspective. They may offer more personal viewpoints, explain the historical background to a topic, or discuss some of the social, ethical or environmental factors related to materials science research in academia and industry. Our Comments aim to address topical issues in materials science or offer a short, authorative opinion on a scientific area within materials science. Reviews, Perspectives and Comments are commissioned by the editorial team.

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Research area (LetPub): Materials Science-Biomaterials

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 10, Germany 3, United States 1, India 1, Italy 1 (17 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

82.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

83.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

110.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

110.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

20.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

10.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

61LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

281OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

671OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

35.54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.44%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

48LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

2,015,815Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Publisher

Springer Nature

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

12 issues per year

Founded

2016

ISSN

2058-8437

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
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• Special issues ↗Publisher website