npj Quantum Materials

npj Quantum Materials is a fully open access, online-only journal published by Springer Nature through its Nature Portfolio in partnership with Nanjing University, launched in 2016 to cover quantum materials from fundamental properties and fabrication to devices, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.6《量子材料》（npj Quantum Materials）是（Springer Nature）旗下（Nature Portfolio）与南京大学合作出版的全开放获取纯在线期刊，2016 年创刊，覆盖从量子材料基本性质、制备到器件的全链条研究，2025 年影响因子为 6.6。

Scope

• The journal considers research covering all aspects of quantum materials science and publishes works that significantly advance the understanding of quantum materials, including their fundamental properties, fabrication and applications该刊发表覆盖量子材料科学各领域、显著推进量子材料认识的论文，涵盖其基本性质、制备与应用。
• Superconductivity and superconducting materials are a core area, including unconventional superconductors, cuprates, iron-based systems, heavy fermion superconductors and other novel superconductors超导与超导材料是核心方向，包括非常规超导体、铜氧化物、铁基体系、重费米子超导体及其他新型超导体。
• Correlated electronic physics and materials include Mott insulators, magnetism in correlated electron systems, colossal magnetoresistance, multiferroicity, quantum phase transitions, and theory and numerical methods in correlated electron systems关联电子物理与材料涵盖莫特绝缘体、关联电子体系磁性、庞磁阻、多铁性、量子相变，以及关联电子体系的理论与数值方法。
• Topological quantum physics and materials include topological insulators and topological superconductors, Dirac and Weyl semimetals, Majorana fermions, magnetic topological insulators, novel topological quantum states, and topological heterostructures and devices拓扑量子物理与材料涵盖拓扑绝缘体与拓扑超导体、狄拉克半金属与外尔半金属、马约拉纳费米子、磁性拓扑绝缘体、新型拓扑量子态，以及拓扑异质结与器件。
• Other correlated systems include heavy fermions, non-Fermi liquids, quantum critical phenomena, quantum Hall and fractional quantum Hall effects, correlations in artificial quantum structures, Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity, and ultracold atoms其他关联体系涵盖重费米子、非费米液体、量子临界现象、量子霍尔与分数量子霍尔效应、人工量子结构中的关联、玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚与超流，以及超冷原子。
• Quantum phenomena in advanced energy materials include photovoltaic systems, photocatalysis, batteries and fuel cells, thermoelectrics, and other advanced energy generation and storage先进能源材料中的量子现象涵盖光伏系统、光催化、电池与燃料电池、热电材料，以及其他先进能源的生产与储存。
• Condensed matter and materials science issues in advanced quantum technologies include quantum computation, quantum simulation, quantum communication and quantum sensing先进量子技术中的凝聚态与材料科学问题涵盖量子计算、量子模拟、量子通信与量子传感。

History

• The journal was announced on 1 March 2016, when Nature Publishing Group, part of Springer Nature, signed a co-publishing agreement with Nanjing University, and it opened for submissions in April 2016该刊于 2016 年 3 月 1 日宣布创办，（Springer Nature）旗下的自然出版集团与南京大学签署合作出版协议，2016 年 4 月起接受投稿。
• It was co-sponsored by the Collaborative Innovation Centre of Advanced Microstructures (CICAM) and Nanjing University, filling a worldwide gap for a journal devoted to quantum materials from fundamental properties through synthesis and fabrication to devices该刊由人工微结构协同创新中心（CICAM）与南京大学共同主办，填补了当时全球缺乏覆盖量子材料从基本性质、合成制造到器件应用全链条的专业期刊的空白。
• Steven Kivelson of Stanford University and Sang-Wook Cheong of Rutgers University were appointed as founding co-editors-in-chief斯坦福大学的 Steven Kivelson 与罗格斯大学的 Sang-Wook Cheong 获任命为创刊共同主编。
• As part of the Nature Partner Journals (npj) series, the journal is online-only and fully open access, follows a modified set of Nature editorial standards, and publishes articles under CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licences作为自然合作期刊（Nature Partner Journals）系列成员，该刊仅在线出版并完全开放获取，遵循经调整的《自然》编辑标准，论文以 CC BY 或 CC BY-NC-ND 许可发表。
• The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, INSPEC and Chemical Abstracts Service该刊被科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）、Scopus、开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ）、《现刊题录：物理、化学与地球科学》、INSPEC 与化学文摘社（CAS）等数据库收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 7.032 in 2021 and 6.856 in 2022, stood at 6.2 in 2024 and reached 6.6 in 2025其影响因子 2021 年为 7.032、2022 年为 6.856，2024 年为 6.2，2025 年为 6.6。
• For its fifth anniversary in 2021, Sang-Wook Cheong wrote a retrospective editorial on the development of the quantum materials field2021 年创刊五周年之际，Sang-Wook Cheong 撰写社论回顾量子材料领域的发展。^[1]

Editors

• The Editors-in-Chief are Sang-Wook Cheong, professor of physics at Rutgers University working on enhanced functionalities of complex materials, and Steven Kivelson, professor of applied physics at Stanford University working on correlated electrons and superconductivity共同主编为罗格斯大学物理学教授 Sang-Wook Cheong（研究复杂材料中源于集体关联的功能增强）与斯坦福大学应用物理教授 Steven Kivelson（研究关联电子与超导）。
• Jun-Ming Liu of Nanjing University serves as Deputy Editor and Jiajun Zhu of Nature Communications as Advisory Editor南京大学的 Jun-Ming Liu 任副主编，《自然-通讯》（Nature Communications）的 Jiajun Zhu 任顾问编辑。
• Six Associate Editors lead subject areas, namely Riccardo Comin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carsten Honerkamp at RWTH Aachen University, Rongying Jin at the University of South Carolina, Hae-Young Kee at the University of Toronto, Qihang Liu at the Southern University of Science and Technology and Sergey Savrasov at the University of California, Davis六位副编辑分领域把关，分别是麻省理工学院的 Riccardo Comin、亚琛工业大学的 Carsten Honerkamp、南卡罗来纳大学的 Rongying Jin、多伦多大学的 Hae-Young Kee、南方科技大学的 Qihang Liu 与加州大学戴维斯分校的 Sergey Savrasov。
• The editorial board comprises 29 members based in the United States, Germany, Austria, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, the Netherlands and South Korea, among them Charles Ahn of Yale University and Liang Fu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology编辑委员会由 29 名成员组成，来自美国、德国、奥地利、加拿大、英国、中国、日本、荷兰与韩国等国，包括耶鲁大学的 Charles Ahn 与麻省理工学院的 Liang Fu。
• All manuscripts are read in full by the editors, and those judged of potential interest are sent to at least two, typically three, reviewers in a single-anonymized process in which reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors所有稿件均由编辑全文阅读，判定有发表潜力者送至少两位、通常三位评审人评审；该刊实行单匿名评审，评审人身份不向作者披露。
• The journal publishes Articles, Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, Editorials and Matters Arising, supports the posting of preprints, and charges an article processing charge of USD 2990 for original research and USD 1535 for comment, perspective and review articles该刊发表研究论文、综述、观点、评论、社论与 Matters Arising 等体裁，支持预印本，并对原创研究收取 2990 美元、对评论/观点/综述类文章收取 1535 美元的文章处理费。