Computers Materials & Continua

Computers Materials & Continua is a monthly open access journal owned by Tech Science Press in Henderson, Nevada, founded in 2004 and working two research lines at once, computer science and the science of materials, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and a CiteScore of 6.6.《计算机、材料与连续介质》是 Tech Science Press 拥有的月刊，全开放获取，2004 年创刊，同时经营计算机科学与材料科学两条研究主线，2025 年期刊影响因子 2.4，CiteScore 6.6。

Scope

• The aims page sets computers and materials side by side in a single sentence, and the ownership statement on the same page names Tech Science Press as the proprietor.宗旨页用一句话把计算机与材料并置，同一页的所有权声明写明刊物归 Tech Science Press 所有。
• Computer networks open the subject list, taking in architecture, protocols and the traffic that runs over them.计算机网络排在主题清单首位，涵盖体系结构、协议以及跑在其上的流量。
• Artificial intelligence is named as a field in its own right rather than as a tool borrowed from elsewhere.人工智能被单列为一个领域，不当作从别处借来的工具。
• Big data management covers the storage, indexing and retrieval of collections too large to handle by familiar means.大数据管理处理规模超出常规手段的集合的存储、索引与检索。
• Data analysis appears as a separate entry beside it, so papers on inference and on management are filed apart.数据分析与它并列另立一项，推断类稿件与管理类稿件因此分属两个方向。
• Software engineering takes in the methods by which large programs are specified, built, tested and maintained.软件工程涵盖大型程序的规格、构建、测试与维护方法。
• Multimedia covers the coding, transmission and processing of images, sound and video.多媒体覆盖图像、声音与视频的编码、传输与处理。
• Cyber security rounds out the computing group, from cryptographic design to the detection of intrusion in live traffic.网络安全补全计算机一侧，从密码设计一直写到实时流量中的入侵检测。
• The internet of things is listed separately, and it covers sensing devices, the networks that join them and the data they emit.物联网单独列出，覆盖传感设备、连接它们的网络以及由此产生的数据。
• Materials genome opens the second line, an approach that treats the search for new materials as a data problem before it becomes an experimental one.材料基因组开启第二条主线，把新材料的寻找先当作数据问题，再落到实验。
• Integrated materials science follows, and it asks how processing, structure and measured properties are tied together across a family of materials.集成材料科学紧随其后，追问加工、结构与实测性能在一族材料中如何相互牵动。
• Modelling is a named subject, covering the simulation of material behaviour from the atomistic scale upward.建模是单列的主题，覆盖从原子尺度向上的材料行为模拟。
• Design and manufacturing engineering of modern functional and multifunctional materials forms the applied end of the materials line.现代功能材料与多功能材料的设计与制造工程构成材料一线的应用端。
• Methods that advance material technologies are singled out for welcome, with high performance computing, big data analysis and artificial intelligence named in that sentence.推进材料技术的各类方法被单独点名欢迎，高性能计算、大数据分析与人工智能在该句里逐一列出。
• Five forms of contribution are accepted, Research Articles and Reviews at the centre, with Editorials, Technical Reports and Commentary around them.刊物接受五类稿件，研究论文与综述居中，社论、技术报告与评论分列其侧。
• Research Articles follow a fixed skeleton, running from keywords and affiliations through an introduction and a methods section to results, discussion and conclusion, and no word limit applies so long as the text stays as short as the work allows.研究论文依固定骨架撰写，从关键词与作者单位起，经引言与方法两节，收在结果、讨论与结论，字数不设上限，但要求写到工作允许的最短篇幅。
• Reviews assess published material rather than report new work, and structured reviews and meta-analyses are held to the PRISMA framework.综述评估已发表材料而不报告新工作，结构化综述与 meta 分析须遵守 PRISMA 框架。

History

• The first volume is dated 2004, and the fourth issue of that volume is still reachable in the archive.第 1 卷标注 2004 年，该卷第 4 期在存档里仍可打开。
• Volumes are gathered three issues at a time, and a single year spans more than one of them, so 2026 has already reached Volumes 86 and 87.每卷攒够 3 期即成册，一年之内跨越多卷，2026 年已出到第 86 卷与第 87 卷。
• Twelve issues appear in a year under a monthly schedule, and the National Library of Medicine's four issues a year describes an older arrangement.刊期按月，一年 12 期，美国国家医学图书馆所记的每年 4 期描述的是更早的安排。
• Two identifiers are carried, the print ISSN 1546-2218 and the online ISSN 1546-2226, and the language of publication is English.刊物有两个编号，印刷版 1546-2218，网络版 1546-2226，出版语言为英文。
• Every article appears gold open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, free to read and permanently archived from the day it is published.所有文章都以金色开放获取、按知识共享署名 4.0 许可发表，自出版当日起免费可读并永久存档。
• The full run is preserved in Portico, and the publisher holds membership of COPE and screens submissions with iThenticate.全文由 Portico 长期保存，出版方是 COPE 会员，并使用 iThenticate 对来稿查重。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 and the CiteScore for the same year is 6.6, with a SNIP of 0.777.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，同年 CiteScore 为 6.6，SNIP 为 0.777。
• Clarivate files the journal in two categories, placing it 162nd of 266 in information systems and 326th of 472 in multidisciplinary materials science, the third quartile in both.Clarivate 把本刊归入两个类目，信息系统类排第 162 位（共 266 种），材料科学综合类排第 326 位（共 472 种），两者同属第三四分位。
• The Journal Citation Indicator reads 0.45, the percentile 39.3, total citations 11,168, annual output 920 papers and the cited half-life three years.期刊引文指标为 0.45，百分位 39.3，总被引 11168 次，年发文 920 篇，被引半衰期 3 年。
• Impact factors over the last four recorded years read 3.86 for 2022, 2.0 for 2023, 1.7 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025.近四年的影响因子依次是 2022 年 3.86、2023 年 2.0、2024 年 1.7 与 2025 年 2.4。
• The acceptance rate is 25 per cent, the average time from submission to a first post-review decision is 25 days, and the average from submission to acceptance is 71 days.录用率为 25%，投稿到首轮审后决定的平均时间为 25 天，投稿到录用的平均时间为 71 天。
• Abstracting reaches Scopus, Ei Compendex, DBLP, ProQuest, Inspec and Chemical Abstracts Service, and PubMed records selected citations only.文摘与索引覆盖 Scopus、Ei Compendex、DBLP、ProQuest、Inspec 与 Chemical Abstracts Service，PubMed 只选录部分条目。
• The journal is listed as the official publication of the Yuchi Blockchain Research Institute, an affiliation recorded on the overview page.概览页把本刊记为 Yuchi Blockchain Research Institute 的官方出版物。

Editors

• The editorial board page carries 169 names, all set with the titles Prof. or Dr. and none marked as Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor.编委页列 169 个名字，一律以 Prof. 或 Dr. 标注，没有任何人被标为主编或副编辑。
• The list opens with Ankit Agrawal of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University and Timon Rabczuk of structural mechanics at Bauhaus University Weimar.名单以西北大学电子与计算机工程的 Ankit Agrawal 与魏玛包豪斯大学结构力学的 Timon Rabczuk 开头。
• Guoren Wang of Beijing Institute of Technology, Victor Sheng of Texas Tech and Xiaoying Zhuang of Leibniz University Hannover appear in the same opening stretch.北京理工大学的 Guoren Wang、Texas Tech 的 Victor Sheng 与汉诺威莱布尼茨大学的 Xiaoying Zhuang 也排在前段。
• Chinese institutions account for 85 of the 169 places, the United States for 16 and Korea for 9, with the United Kingdom on 8.169 个席位里有 85 个来自中国机构，美国 16 个，韩国 9 个，英国 8 个。
• Italy contributes 3 and Germany 2, and the closing entry is a separate line headed Late Prof. Satya N. Atluri of Texas Tech, kept as a memorial.意大利贡献 3 个，德国 2 个，名单末尾单列一行 Late Prof. Satya N. Atluri（Texas Tech），属纪念性收录。
• A Managing Editor screens every arrival first and forwards only the qualified ones to the journal's editors, in the wording of the workflow page.流程页的原话是管理编辑先对每篇来稿做初筛，只把合格的稿件转给期刊编辑。
• At least two independent experts who are not part of the editorial staff take part in the review of each paper that reaches that stage.进入外审的每篇稿件至少由两位不属于编辑部成员的独立专家参与评审。
• The procedure is single blind, so reviewers know who wrote the paper while the authors do not learn who reviewed it.流程采用单盲，审稿人知道论文作者是谁，作者无从得知审稿人身份。
• Four decisions are open to the handling editor, acceptance, minor revision with five days to return, major revision and decline.处理编辑可作四种决定，录用、小修（五天内返回）、大修与退稿。
• Editors are barred from acting as external reviewers for the journal, and accepted papers go online first with a DOI before they are paginated.编辑不得充任本刊的外审专家，录用论文先以 Online First 形式配 DOI 上线，随后再编入页码。
• Every accepted article carries an article processing charge, with research papers billed on a base length and a per-page rate beyond it and reviews on a single rate, under a scale revised from 1 January 2025.所有录用文章都要缴纳文章处理费，研究论文按基础篇幅一档计费、超出部分按页加收，综述统一一档，收费标准自 2025 年 1 月 1 日起执行新版。
• Submissions use the publisher's Word or LaTeX templates with Vancouver references through an EndNote style file, and substantive use of AI tools must be disclosed at submission.投稿须用出版方的 Word 或 LaTeX 模板，参考文献按 Vancouver 体例、可用 EndNote 样式文件，实质性使用 AI 工具须在投稿时披露。
• A separate chapter of the author instructions governs research data and supplementary materials, and authors may suggest reviewers when they submit.作者指南另设一章处理研究数据与补充材料，作者投稿时可以推荐审稿人。