Composites Science and Technology

Composites Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed materials journal published by Elsevier in the United Kingdom, which reports original research on the fundamental and applied science of engineering composites and has been registered under its present title and ISSN 0266-3538 since 1985, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.9《复合材料科学与技术》（Composites Science and Technology）是爱思唯尔（Elsevier）在英国出版的同行评审材料科学期刊，报道工程复合材料基础与应用科学的原创研究，自 1985 年起以现用刊名与网络及纸本刊号登记在册，2025 年影响因子为 9.9。

Scope

• The journal publishes refereed original articles on the fundamental and applied science of composites, with a stated focus on polymeric matrix composites whose reinforcements and fillers range from nano-scale to macro-scale该刊发表复合材料基础与应用科学的同行评审原创论文，明确以聚合物基复合材料为重点，其增强体与填料覆盖纳米到宏观尺度。
• Beyond traditional fibre reinforced composites it encourages novel materials with engineering potential, including nanocomposites, bio-composites, green and eco composites, energy composites and composites that mimic natural materials, and it welcomes studies of multi-scale and multi-functional problems and interdisciplinary approaches to new generation materials除传统纤维增强复合材料外，该刊鼓励具有工程应用潜力的新型材料，包括纳米复合材料、生物复合材料、绿色与生态复合材料、能源复合材料以及仿天然材料复合材料，并欢迎多尺度与多功能问题研究以及面向新一代材料的跨学科方法。
• Analytical work must be validated either experimentally or numerically and experimental papers should add a modelling section that clarifies and justifies the results, while manuscripts reporting routine processing, synthesis and property characterisation are stated not to be a priority分析类工作须经实验或数值验证，实验类论文应增加建模部分以阐明并佐证结果，而报道常规处理、合成与性能表征的稿件据官方说明并非优先方向。
• Its recorded content types are refereed original research together with reviews and feature articles, the journal accepts no short communications or letters, and a graphical abstract is mandatory with every manuscript其刊载体裁为同行评审原创研究，另有一般综述与专题文章，该刊不接收简报与读者来信类短文，且每篇稿件必须附图形摘要。
• Authors may publish either by the subscription route, which charges no publication fee, or as open access under an article publishing charge of USD 4,610 excluding taxes, and the publisher labels the journal as supporting open access作者可走订阅路线发表而不付版面费，也可按开放获取方式发表并支付 4610 美元（不含税）的文章处理费；出版方将该刊标注为支持开放获取。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and holds the first quartile in the Materials Science composites category with a rank of 5 out of 35 titles, and Scopus records a CiteScore of 18.3该刊被（SCIE）收录，在材料科学复合材料类位居第一四分位、于 35 种刊中排名第 5 位，（Scopus）记录的（CiteScore）为 18.3。

History

• The earliest articles deposited with the DOI registry under the journal's present title and ISSN date from 1985, when three volumes numbered 22 to 24 appeared, followed by volumes 25 to 27 in 1986 and volumes 28 to 30 in 1987, so the volume numbering had already reached twenty-two in the first recorded year以现用刊名与刊号提交至（DOI）注册机构的最早文章可追溯到 1985 年，当年出版第 22 至 24 卷共三卷，其后 1986 年为第 25 至 27 卷、1987 年为第 28 至 30 卷，可见首个有记录的年份卷号已至第二十二卷。
• Bibliographic records of the International ISSN Centre confirm the serial as published in the United Kingdom in print form under the number 0266-3538 with the online counterpart 1879-1050国际（ISSN）中心书目记录确认该刊以纸本形式在英国出版，纸本号为 0266-3538、网络对应号为 1879-1050。
• Its registered corpus is large, the DOI registry counting 12068 articles for the journal, of which 10775 belong to the backfile其登记论文规模庞大——（DOI）注册机构为该刊计得 12068 篇文章，其中 10775 篇属于回溯库。
• Recent years are divided into several volumes rather than one annual volume, with fourteen volume numbers from 259 to 272 recorded for 2025 and articles in press already carrying volume 287 under a 2027 date近年出版分为多卷而非每年一卷，2025 年记录有从 259 到 272 共 14 个卷号，在研文章已排到标注 2027 年的第 287 卷。
• A 2004 study of carbon nanotube reinforced epoxy composites reported enhanced stiffness and fracture toughness at low nanotube content, and the publisher's page still listed it in 2012 among the most downloaded articles of the preceding ninety days2004 年一项碳纳米管增强环氧复合材料研究报道了低纳米管含量下刚性与断裂韧性的同步提升，2012 年出版方页面仍将其列为近九十天下载量最高的文章之一。^[1]
• Its impact factor rose from 8.528 in 2021 and 9.879 in 2022 to 9.8 in 2024 and 9.9 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 8.528 与 2022 年的 9.879 升至 2024 年的 9.8 与 2025 年的 9.9。

Editors

• Marino M. Quaresimin is the editor-in-chief, based at the Department of Management and Engineering of the University of Padova in Vicenza, Italy（Marino M. Quaresimin）任主编，任职于意大利维琴察（Vicenza）帕多瓦大学（University of Padova）管理与工程系。
• Tsu-Wei Chou is recorded as editor-in-chief on the publisher's journal pages in the 2011 and 2015 editions of the same page（Tsu-Wei Chou）在出版方期刊页 2011 年版与 2015 年版中被列为该刊主编。
• To expedite handling, manuscripts receive a preliminary review by the editors before the full reviewing process in order to judge their suitability for the journal为加快处理，稿件在进入完整评审流程前先由编辑做初步审查，以判断其是否适合本刊。
• General reviews and feature articles covering topics of major interest appear at regular intervals but only by invitation of the editors面向重大议题的一般综述与专题文章定期刊出，但仅由编辑邀请撰稿。
• The publisher's insights panel records four days from submission to first decision, thirty-eight days from submission to the decision after review, eighty-one days from submission to acceptance and two days from acceptance to online publication出版方的数据面板记录投稿到初审决定 4 天、到评审后决定 38 天、到录用 81 天、录用到在线发表 2 天。