Shape Memory and Superelasticity

Shape Memory and Superelasticity is published by Springer Nature 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 Shape Memory Alloy Transformations, Titanium Alloys Microstructure and Properties and High Entropy Alloys Studies, together about 62.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Shape Memory and Superelasticity journal invites original peer-reviewed papers that focus on shape memory materials research with contributions from materials science, materials engineering, experimental and theoretical mechanics, mathematics and physics. Of particular interest is to understand the response of these materials to external stimuli such as force, displacement, temperature, magnetic fields, irradiation, corrosive media and so on in pursuit of uncovering new phenomenon, new materials and new applications as follows: (i) the journal papers will examine these materials utilizing the principles of continuum mechanics, micromechanics, microstructuraly informed constitutive modeling, atomistic models, mathematics of microstructures and other methodologies. (ii) the development and use of advanced experimental techniques to expose and understand the shape memory response including thermal and mechanical cycling, application of magnetic and other external fields, (iii) the exploration and further understanding of shape memory materials due to fatigue, fracture and environmental factors are of significant interest, (iv) novel applications of the materials will be explored in all areas including bio-medical devices, actuators, thin films, robotics, mechanical and aerospace engineering components, civil engineering structures, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Specifically, the journal will include the following topics: (1) Behavior of all classes of shape memory materials including metals, non-metals (such as shape memory ceramics, shape memory polymers) and shape memory composites, (2) Stress-strain response in thermo-mechanical loadings (experimental observations and modeling), (3) Life prediction methodologies (different approaches including fracture mechanics, role of grain boundaries, the role of slip and twinning on shape memory behavior, crack nucleation modeling), (4) Thermodynamics of the transformation, the fundamentals of superelasticity and related areas such as twinning, detwinning, residual martensites, (5) Solutions of shape memory problems in industry (including biomedical, electronic, MEMS, microdevice and microactuator applications and applications in aero-, civil-, mechanical, electrical and other engineering disciplines), (6) Critical experiments that shed insight into shape memory behavior including digital image correlation, diffraction methodologies (including those using high energy sources), in-situ microscopy, inf

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Research area (LetPub): MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editor-in-chief Huseyin Sehitoglu NyquistPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 19, Germany 4, Italy 4, Japan 3, Spain 3 (51 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.51LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.93LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

41OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

224OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.3OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

20.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

46.67%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

67LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

2,023Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

209,700Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Publisher

Springer Nature

Frequency

4 issues per year

ISSN

2199-384X

Electronic ISSN

2199-3858

Latest issue on the website

Volume 12, Issue 2 (June 2026)

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