title: Materials Science and Engineering A
text: # Materials Science and Engineering A
  
  Materials Science and Engineering: A — Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the section of Materials Science and Engineering dedicated to "theoretical and experimental studies related to the load-bearing capacity of materials as influenced by their basic properties, processing history, microstructure and operating environment" and is published monthly by Elsevier. The current editor-in-chief is E. J. Lavernia (University of California Irvine).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:
  
  * Academic Search Premier
  * Aerospace Database
  * Chemical Abstracts Core
  * Civil Engineering Abstracts
  * Communication Abstracts
  * INSPEC
  * Metadex
  * PASCAL
  * Scopus
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 6.004, ranking 9th out of 79 in the category 'Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering'.
  
  