Science China-Materials

Science China-Materials is published by Science China Press 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, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Advancements in Battery Materials, together about 23% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

SCIENCE CHINA Materials (SCMs) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of materials science. The journal is supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It is jointly published monthly in both printed and electronic forms by Science China Press and Springer. The mission of SCIENCE CHINA Materials is to encourage communication of high quality, innovative research results at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering, especially focusing on breakthroughs from all around the world, and it is aimed to become a world-leading academic journal of materials science. Categories of contribution published in the journal include: Articles: peer-reviewed, in-depth reports of outstanding novel findings which also have important and general implications for specialists working in other fields. Letters: present short reports in a timely manner on the latest important novel research studies and findings. Reviews: summarize representative results and achievements in a particular topic or area, comment on the current research progress, and advice on the future research directions, which should be based on or closely related to the author’s own research work. Perspectives: concise reports on recent exciting research of interest to materials scientists worldwide, including discussions of research breakthroughs and interpretations of important science and funding policies. Concepts: conceptual advances of new materials, focusing on innovative ideas of structure design and synthesis approaches that may inspire future research directions and breakthroughs. Highlights: discuss on very important new results of original research, in general given by a third person, with a view to instruct and to highlight their significance. Reviews and Perspectives are usually written on invitation; however, authors are welcome to submit unsolicited research Articles and Letters. Only manuscripts in English are accepted. General editorial inquiries and correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, at materials@scichina.com.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Materials Science-General Materials Science

Editor-in-chief Yi XiePublisher website

Editorial board by country: 193 in mainland China (about 89%); most named Mainland China 193, Hong Kong, China 6, Australia 5, Singapore 4, United States 3 (217 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

7.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

7.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

6.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

12.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.92LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

93OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,160OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

7.23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.92%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

415LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

606,700Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)

Page charges

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Publisher

Science China Press

Country or region

China

Language

English

Frequency

12 issues per year

Founded

2014

ISSN

2095-8226

Electronic ISSN

2199-4501

Latest issue on the website

Volume 69, Issue 9 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub