Materials & Design

Materials & Design (commonly abbreviated as Mater. Des.) is a peer-reviewed materials science and engineering journal published by Elsevier, issued monthly. It adopted its present title in 1980 and has been fully open access since 2019, concentrating on exploring the relations among structure, property and processing of inorganic and organic materials.《材料与设计》（Materials & Design，常用缩写为 Mater. Des.）是一份由爱思唯尔出版的材料科学与工程同行评审学术期刊，月刊。该刊于 1980 年启用现名，自 2019 年起完全开放获取，专注探索无机与有机材料的结构、性能与加工之间的关联。

Scope

The journal's editorial stance takes design as its core method, requiring that a paper establish relations among structure, property and processing through innovative and proactive design rather than merely optimising parameters within an existing system. The journal plainly adopts an interdisciplinary method, connecting materials science with engineering, physics, chemistry, biology and even artificial intelligence and data science. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以设计为核心方法」，即要求论文须通过创新与主动的设计建立材料结构、性能与加工之间的联系，而非仅在既有体系上作参数优化。刊物明确采用跨学科方法，把材料科学与工程、物理、化学、生物乃至人工智能与数据科学连接起来。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Metals and alloys: composition design, phase transformation and the control of mechanical properties in structural metallic materials.金属与合金： 结构金属材料的成分设计、相变与力学性能调控。
• Ceramics and inorganic non-metallics: the preparation, microstructure and property relations of structural ceramics, functional ceramics and glasses.陶瓷与无机非金属： 结构陶瓷、功能陶瓷与玻璃的制备、显微组织与性能关系。
• Polymers and composites: polymer design, interfaces in composite systems, and structure-property relations across scales.聚合物与复合材料： 高分子材料设计、复合体系界面与多尺度结构—性能关系。
• Additive manufacturing and processing: material design questions in laser and electron beam powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition and related processes.增材制造与加工： 激光与电子束粉末床熔融、定向能量沉积等工艺中的材料设计问题。
• Computational and data-driven design: multiscale modelling, and machine-learning-assisted optimisation of composition and process.计算与数据驱动设计： 多尺度建模、机器学习辅助的成分与工艺优化。

The journal has been fully open access since 2019, with an article processing charge of US$3,750, and it takes part in a geographical pricing programme for open access that sets charges according to the income level of the authors' country affiliations. The publisher states an official acceptance rate of 39 per cent, with medians of 7 days to first decision, 36 days to a decision after review and 89 days to acceptance. The first decision includes editorial screening. The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and carries a 2025 impact factor of 8.2 and a CiteScore of 12.6.该刊自 2019 年起完全开放获取，文章处理费为 3750 美元，并参与按作者国别收入水平定价的地理定价计划。出版方官方公布录用率为 39%，投稿至首次决定中位 7 天、复审后决定中位 36 天、至接收中位 89 天；首次决定含编辑部初筛。该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，2025 年影响因子 8.2、引用分数 12.6。

History

• Founding and predecessor (1978–1980): the journal adopted its present title in 1980, its predecessor International Journal of Materials in Engineering Applications having been founded in 1978 under ISSN 0141-5530. The start of the lineage is 1978, with 1980 being the year the present name was adopted.创刊与前身（1978–1980）： 本刊于 1980 年启用现名，其前身《工程应用中的国际材料杂志》（International Journal of Materials in Engineering Applications）创刊于 1978 年，刊号 0141-5530；沿革起点应记为 1978 年，现名启用年 1980 年。^[1]
• Current editor: Xu Song serves as editor, based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, having taken over in 2024, his editorship recorded in the editors' block of the publisher's official journal page.现任主编： 宋旭（Xu Song）任主编，供职于香港中文大学，2024 年起接任；其主编身份在出版方官方期刊页的编者栏中载明。^[2]
• Former editor: Alexander M. Korsky, a professor at the University of Oxford, held the post from 2014 to 2024. The founding editor has not been published.前任主编： 亚历山大·科尔孙斯基（Alexander M. Korsky）任牛津大学教授，2014 至 2024 年在任；创刊主编出版方未公布。^[2]
• Open access transition (2019): the journal moved to fully open access from January 2019, with the current article processing charge at US$3,750. Before that it was hybrid, the subscription route charging authors nothing.开放获取转型（2019年）： 该刊自 2019 年 1 月起转为完全开放获取，文章处理费现行 3750 美元；此前为混合出版模式，订阅路线不向作者收费。^[1]
• Official acceptance rate: the publisher's own journal insights page states an acceptance rate of 39 per cent, with medians of 7 days to first decision, 36 days to a decision after review and 89 days to acceptance. The first decision includes editorial screening.官方录用率： 出版方官方期刊洞察页直接公布录用率为 39%，投稿至首次决定中位 7 天、复审后决定中位 36 天、至接收中位 89 天；首次决定含编辑部初筛。^[1]
• Frequency and scale: the journal is issued monthly. After the move to open access its output expanded markedly, which is one of the principal background factors behind the rise in its citation indicators.刊期与规模： 本刊为月刊；在转为开放获取后发文规模显著扩大，是该刊引用指标上行的主要背景之一。^[2]
• Metric trend: the 2025 impact factor of 8.2, together with a CiteScore of 12.6, places the journal near the front of general materials science, consistent with its editorial stance on structure-property-processing relations.指标走势： 影响因子自 2025 年的 8.2 与引用分数 12.6 共同刻画该刊位置；在材料科学综合类中处于前列，与其在结构—性能—加工关联上的取稿立场相符。^[1]

Editors

The journal operates under a single editor appointed by Elsevier, with manuscripts submitted through the Editorial Manager system. The publisher publishes no editorial process detail beyond the acceptance rate and decision times, and the composition of the editorial office is taken from the masthead.本刊实行主编负责制，主编由爱思唯尔任命并主持编辑部；稿件经 Editorial Manager 系统投递。官方不公布除录用率与决定时长之外的编辑流程细节，编辑部构成以刊头署名为准。

• Xu Song (editor since 2024): professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, working on materials design and advanced manufacturing. He took over in 2024 from Alexander M. Korsky, who had held the post for ten years.宋旭（2024年起任）： 香港中文大学教授，研究方向为材料设计与先进制造；2024 年接替任职十年的亚历山大·科尔孙斯基。^[2]
• Alexander M. Korsky (2014–2024): professor at the University of Oxford, working on the mechanics and engineering application of materials. His ten-year tenure spanned the journal's key transition to open access.亚历山大·科尔孙斯基（2014–2024）： 牛津大学教授，研究方向为材料力学与工程应用；其十年任期覆盖了该刊向开放获取转型的关键阶段。^[2]
• Founding editor: the publisher has not published a list of the journal's founding editors, and the editorial structure of the 1978 predecessor period is no longer recoverable.创刊编辑： 出版方未公布该刊创刊主编名单；若循沿革起点，1978 年前身刊时期的编辑架构已不可考。^[2]
• Editorial stance: the journal describes its core as exploring the relations among structure, property and processing of inorganic and organic materials, with innovative and proactive design as the method, a stance that determines its emphasis on computational and data-driven design.取稿立场： 官方自述以探索无机与有机材料的结构、性能与加工之间的关联为核心，并以创新与主动的设计为方法，这一立场决定了该刊对计算与数据驱动设计的重视。^[2]
• Standing in the field: the journal is regarded as one of the principal titles in materials science and engineering, its papers routinely serving as base citations for later work in materials design and manufacturing, with substantial influence on the structure-property-processing agenda.学科地位： 该刊被视为材料科学与工程领域的主要刊物之一，其论文常成为后续材料设计与制造研究的基础引用来源，在结构—性能—加工关联方向上具有重要影响。^[2]