title: Materials (journal)
text: # Materials (journal)
  
  Materials is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering materials science and engineering. It was established in 2008 and is published by MDPI. The editor-in-chief is Maryam Tabrizian (McGill University). The journal publishes reviews, regular research papers, short communications, and book reviews. There are currently hundreds of calls for submissions to special issues, a fact that has led to serious concerns.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * CAB Abstracts
  * Chemical Abstracts Service
  * Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
  * EBSCO databases
  * Ei Compendex
  * Inspec
  * ProQuest databases
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.748.
  
  