Journal Information

Why publish in NPG Asia Materials?

  • Publishing research on all aspects of the materials sciences.
  • Covering physical and chemical sciences, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
  • Emphasising the novelty of the research, either in novel materials or synthetic methods.

Aims and scope of journal

NPG Asia Materials is an open access, international journal publishing peer-reviewed review and primary research articles that cover all aspects of the materials sciences. The journal is global in outlook and reach and its base in the Asia-Pacific reflects the substantial — and increasing — output of materials research from the region.

NPG Asia Materials is aimed at an audience of scientists and researchers across the full spectrum of materials research, and publishes articles from the physical and chemical sciences, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The journal welcomes high-quality review and research articles from the most rapidly advancing fields that lie at the borders between materials science and engineering and the classical disciplines of physics, chemistry and biology.

The journal features both theoretical and experimental aspects of research in the following areas related to materials science:

  • Biomaterials and biosensors
  • Electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials
  • Energy conversion, catalysis and separation
  • Inorganic, composite and hybrid materials
  • Metals and alloys
  • Nanomaterials
  • Optics, photonics and optoelectronics
  • Organic, carbon-based and soft materials
  • Theory, modelling and simulations

Emphasis is placed on the novelty of the research, either in the sense of novel materials or synthetic methods, or in the sense of novel properties that lead to advanced functionality and applications of previously known materials. Both experimental and theoretical studies will be considered for publication. Studies on synthetic methods should demonstrate the generality of the approach or the advance represented in applying the material to practical devices. Equally, research on advances in methodology, processes or applied device engineering should demonstrate more than an incremental improvement on existing system and so be of the highest possible interest to our broad readership.

Journal Metrics

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

2022 Citation Metrics

2-year Impact Factor*: 9.7
5-year Impact Factor*: 10.5
Immediacy index*: 1.8
Eigenfactor® score*: 0.00886
Article influence score*: 2.2
Journal Citation Indicator*: 1.44

SNIP**: 2.045
SJR***: 2.501

*2022 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
**Source-normalized Impact per Paper (Scopus)
***SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus)

2023 Peer Review Metrics

Submission to first editorial decision: 16 days
Submission to Accept: 137 days

2023 Usage Metrics

Downloads: 935,150
Altmetric mentions: 483

For a further description of these metrics and a summary of the metrics for all Nature journals (including metrics on peer review turnaround times), visit our journal metrics page. More information underlying our approach to journal metrics may be found here.

Abstracted/indexed in

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Scopus
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Scirus

ISSN

The ISSN (online) number for NPG Asia Materials is : 1884-4057.

Citing articles in NPG Asia Materials

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NPG Asia Materials was founded in association with the Tokyo Institute of Technology.