Smart Materials and Structures

Smart Materials and Structures is published by IOP Publishing 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 Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, together about 27.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Smart Materials and Structures (SMS) is a multi-disciplinary engineering journal that explores the creation and utilization of novel forms of transduction. It is a leading journal in the area of smart materials and structures, publishing the most important results from different regions of the world, largely from Asia, Europe and North America. The results may be as disparate as the development of new materials and active composite systems, derived using theoretical predictions to complex structural systems, which generate new capabilities by incorporating enabling new smart material transducers. The theoretical predictions are usually accompanied with experimental verification, characterizing the performance of new structures and devices. These systems are examined from the nanoscale to the macroscopic. SMS has a Board of Associate Editors who are specialists in a multitude of areas, ensuring that reviews are fast, fair and performed by experts in all sub-disciplines of smart materials, systems and structures. A smart material is defined as any material that is capable of being controlled such that its response and properties change under a stimulus. A smart structure or system is capable of reacting to stimuli or the environment in a prescribed manner. SMS is committed to understanding, expanding and dissemination of knowledge in this subject matter.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

3.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

6.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

131LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

196OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

7,089OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.04OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

13.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

50.16%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

567LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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.

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd.

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1992

ISSN

0964-1726

Electronic ISSN

1361-665X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub