Materials Today Communications

Materials Today Communications is an online-only Elsevier journal launched in 2014 as part of the Materials Today family, judging papers on technical soundness rather than novelty, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.9.《今日材料通讯》（Materials Today Communications）由（Elsevier）出版，2014 年创刊，属（Materials Today）家族，以技术可靠性而非新颖性作为取舍标准，2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9。

Scope

• The core interest is the structure-property relationship, followed across nano-, micro- and macro-scale characterization to explain mechanical, electronic and chemical behaviour.核心关切是结构—性能关系，通过纳米、微米与宏观尺度的表征解释力学、电子与化学行为。
• Manufacturing is a research subject in its own right, with new and existing techniques judged by the properties and applications they deliver.制造本身即为研究对象，新技术与既有工艺都按其带来的性能与应用来评判。
• Bioengineering and biomedicine, biomaterials, building materials, ceramics and glasses, and composites each form a named area.生物工程与生物医学、生物材料、建筑材料、陶瓷与玻璃、复合材料各为明确列出的领域。
• Catalysis, energy materials and engineering applications carry the coverage towards chemical processing and device performance.催化、能源材料与工程应用把覆盖面延伸至化学过程与器件性能。
• Computational materials science, data science and machine learning are welcome where the materials question is clear and the approach is validated or benchmarked.计算材料科学、数据科学与机器学习亦受欢迎，前提是材料学问题清晰、方法经过验证或基准比对。
• The journal states that it does not filter by topic or by predicted citation impact, only by the quality of the individual manuscript.刊物明言不按选题或预期被引筛选稿件，只看单篇稿件自身的质量。
• Acceptable manuscripts pose a defined question, describe their methods, support results with data and keep conclusions within the evidence.可接受的稿件须提出明确问题、说明方法、以数据支撑结果，并使结论不超出证据范围。

History

• Volume 1, issues 1-2 appeared as a combined issue in September 2014, the journal's first content under the Elsevier imprint.第 1 卷第 1–2 期于 2014 年 9 月以合刊形式出版，是该刊在（Elsevier）旗下的首批内容。
• It has been online only from the start, with the single electronic ISSN 2352-4928 and no print edition.该刊自创刊起即纯在线出版，仅有电子（ISSN 2352-4928），无纸本。
• Growth has been rapid, with four volumes carrying 2024 content, eight carrying 2025 content and 2026 content already reaching volume 50 and beyond.增长迅速，2024 年内容占四卷，2025 年内容占八卷，2026 年内容已排到第 50 卷以后。
• Publication is hybrid, with an open access charge of USD 2,400 and a subscription route for authors who do not need open access.出版模式为混合开放获取，开放获取费用为 2400 美元，不需要开放获取的作者可走订阅途径。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.9, against 4.5 in 2024, 3.662 in 2022 and 3.383 in 2021, with a CiteScore of 7.3.2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9，2024 年为 4.5，2022 年为 3.662，2021 年为 3.383，（CiteScore）为 7.3。
• Speed is the selling point, with a median of 2 days to a first decision, 33 days to a decision after review, 75 days to acceptance and 2 days from acceptance to online publication.速度是主要卖点，首次决定中位 2 天，外审后决定 33 天，投稿至录用 75 天，录用到在线发表 2 天。
• The sound-science policy is written into the guide for authors, which asks authors to state what the work adds and how the claims are supported.「可靠科学」方针写入作者指南，要求作者说明工作的增量以及论断的证据基础。

Editors

• Tomas L Martin of the University of Bristol is Editor-in-Chief, with a background in atom probe tomography, steels, corrosion, electron microscopy and creep for fusion and fission applications.主编为（University of Bristol）的（Tomas L Martin），研究背景包括原子探针层析、钢铁、腐蚀、电子显微学，以及聚变与裂变条件下的蠕变。
• Six assistant editors cover energy materials, biomaterials and organs-on-chip, composites and tomography, optoelectronics, mechanical metamaterials and cardiovascular nanomedicine.六位助理编辑分别负责能源材料、生物材料与器官芯片、复合材料与断层成像、光电子学、力学超材料与心血管纳米医学。
• Section editors are assigned by subject, from additive manufacturing and advanced alloys to building materials, functional ceramics, polymers, porous materials and semiconductors.分区编辑按学科设置，从增材制造与先进合金，到建筑材料、功能陶瓷、聚合物、多孔材料与半导体。
• The board lists 182 editors and board members from 40 countries, with China, the United Kingdom, the United States and India the largest contingents.编委会列出 182 位编辑与编委，来自 40 个国家，中国、英国、美国与印度人数最多。
• Papers are accepted as comprehensive articles, short communications or reviews, and computational, theoretical and machine-learning studies must justify their approach and tie results to real or testable materials.稿件类型包括完整论文、短通讯与综述，计算、理论与机器学习研究须论证方法，并把结果与真实或可检验的材料体系相联系。
• Manuscripts may be returned when methods are thinly described, validation is weak for the claims made, or figures and language prevent proper assessment.方法描述单薄、验证不足以支撑论断，或图表与语言妨碍评审的稿件，可能被退回。