Advanced Materials

About Advanced Materials

Journal Overview

Advanced Materials (often cited as Adv. Mater.) is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the whole breadth of materials science, published by Wiley-VCH GmbH of Weinheim, Germany. It is the flagship and founding title of Wiley's Advanced Portfolio of journals, a family of high-impact titles that today spans the physical, life, health and engineering sciences. Every week the journal publishes carefully selected Research Articles, Reviews and Perspectives positioned at the cutting edge of the chemistry and physics of functional materials.

The journal is identified by print ISSN 0935-9648 and online ISSN 1521-4095, with the CODEN ADVMEW. It currently appears in 52 issues per year, making it one of the highest-frequency top-tier journals in materials science. Its publisher describes interdisciplinarity as one of the keys to its success: contributions come from materials scientists, chemists, physicists, engineers, metallurgists and, increasingly, health and life scientists.

Advanced Materials was launched in 1988 and has been published weekly for well over a decade. It is a subscription journal with a hybrid open-access option (Wiley OnlineOpen), and it is abstracted and indexed in the major scientific databases, including Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded), Scopus, MEDLINE/PubMed and Chemical Abstracts Service.

History of the Journal

The origins of Advanced Materials lie in 1988, when it was founded as a supplement to the general chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie. It remained part of that journal for the first eighteen months of its existence before emerging as a standalone publication. Its founder and first editor-in-chief was Peter Goelitz, who was then the editor of Angewandte Chemie.

The journal's editorial leadership changed hands several times in its early decades. Peter Gregory took over the editorship in 1991 and led the journal through 2002, a period in which its international profile grew rapidly. He was succeeded by Esther Levy (2002–2006), after which Gregory returned to the editor's chair in 2007. In later years the editorship passed to Jos Lenders, who was serving as editor-in-chief around 2020. At the start of 2024, Wiley appointed Irem Bayindir-Buchhalter and Esther Levy as joint editors-in-chief — notably, Levy returned to a role she had held some twenty years earlier.

The journal's publication frequency tracks its growth. It began as a monthly title, moved to fifteen issues in 1997 and eighteen in 1998, and reached twenty-four issues in 2000. In 2009 it switched to a weekly rhythm with forty-eight issues per year, and since 2018 it has published fifty-two issues per year — a full weekly schedule that it maintains today.

Over more than three decades the journal has become one of the most heavily cited outlets in materials science. Wiley marked its stature in an October 2024 press release describing Advanced Materials as the launch title of the Advanced Portfolio — a family Wiley has built up from this single flagship since 1988. A 2009 milestone illustrates its reach into the life sciences: that year the journal was selected for indexing in MEDLINE, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's biomedical literature database, reflecting the growing weight of drug delivery, tissue engineering and nanomedicine content in its pages. To mark the occasion, the journal published a 200-page special issue on regenerative medicine highlighting the role of smart materials in innovative medical therapies.

Among the kinds of papers Wiley itself has singled out from the journal's back catalogue are widely read reviews such as Vincent Rotello's "Applications of Nanoparticles in Biology," Catherine Picart's work on the biomedical applications of polyelectrolyte multilayer films, Rainer Haag's "Dendritic Polyglycerols for Biomedical Applications," and Mostafa El-Sayed's "Gold Nanorods: From Synthesis and Properties to Biological and Biomedical Applications" — reviews that became standard reference points in bio-nanomaterials research.

Leadership and Editorial Team

As of 2026, Advanced Materials is led by joint Editors-in-Chief Irem Bayindir-Buchhalter and Esther Levy, according to the journal's official Wiley Online Library homepage. They were appointed together and introduced themselves to readers in the first issue of 2024 with a joint editorial, "With Change Comes Opportunity," writing that they were honored to assume the position and looked forward to working with the journal's leadership team and advisory board.

Irem Bayindir-Buchhalter took on the Advanced Materials editorship alongside her existing role as editor-in-chief of Advanced NanoBiomed Research, another Wiley title. Esther Levy returned to the journal's top job after a roughly twenty-year hiatus, having previously served as editor from 2002 to 2006. Levy also serves as a consulting editor for the sister journal Advanced Materials Technologies.

They are supported by a sizable team of deputy editors based in Wiley's editorial offices, listed on the official journal page as: Elisa Collado Fregoso, Geraldine Echue, David Huesmann, Soyun Joo, Weiwei Kong, Duoduo Liang, William Odette, Sneha K. Rhode and Bo Weng. The deputy editors — drawn from chemistry, physics and engineering backgrounds — coordinate peer review from the journal's editorial office in Weinheim, Germany, near Heidelberg. Copyright for the journal is held by Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim.

Aims & Scope

Advanced Materials exists to bring readers the latest progress in materials science every week, publishing a tightly curated selection of Research Articles, Reviews and Perspectives. Its stated emphasis is on work at the cutting edge of the chemistry and physics of functional materials, chosen for quality and for significance to the broader materials community rather than to a narrow specialism. The journal explicitly presents its pronounced interdisciplinarity as central to its success: it welcomes discoveries from materials scientists, chemists, physicists, engineers, metallurgists, ceramicists, and increasingly researchers in health and life sciences.

The topical range is exceptionally broad. The journal's official keyword list spans nanotechnology, liquid crystals, semiconductors, superconductors, optics, lasers and sensors; porous materials, light-emitting and magnetic materials, thin films and colloids; ceramics, biological materials and biomaterials; photonics, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and metamaterials; drug delivery, cancer therapy, tissue engineering and imaging; self-assembly and hierarchical materials; batteries, supercapacitors and thermoelectrics; photovoltaics and solar cells; and carbon-based systems including polymers, nanomaterials, nanocomposites, nanotubes, nanowires, nanoparticles, fullerenes and diamond.

Its declared readership mirrors that breadth: materials scientists, chemists, physicists, ceramicists, engineers and metallurgists working in academia and industry. In practice, the journal positions itself as the venue of choice for the most important discoveries on any and all classes of materials — from fundamental laboratory advances to results with clear device and application potential.

Editorial Process and Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted to Advanced Materials are first assessed by the journal's professional editorial team in Weinheim. Papers that clear this initial editorial screening are sent for external peer review; the publisher's author guidance makes clear that a large share of submissions are declined at this desk stage without external review, which is consistent with the journal's published acceptance rate of around 15%.

On Wiley's official peer-review guidance, the publisher groups its physical-sciences titles — the category Advanced Materials belongs to — under a single-blind review model (reviewers know the authors' identities; authors do not know the reviewers'). The journal's public author guidelines do not name the model explicitly, so authors who need certainty should confirm the current practice with the editorial office at submission.

Several features of the editorial process are spelled out in the official author guidelines:

• Ethics and integrity: The journal follows the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), alongside the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity. Authors must disclose all funding sources and declare any conflicts of interest; duplicate submission is not permitted and leads to rejection.
• Receipt and assessment: Every submitting author receives an email acknowledging successful submission.
• Revisions: Authors of revised manuscripts must provide a point-by-point response letter to the reviewers, listing the changes made for each comment and rebutting any points of disagreement, with changes highlighted in a tracked-changes version of the manuscript.
• Appeals: Authors may appeal a rejection if they believe it rested on a significant misunderstanding of the work, a failure to grasp how the manuscript advances the literature, or a concern about the handling process. Differences of opinion over novelty or significance alone are not grounds for appeal, and the editor's decision after appeal is final.
• Transfer: The journal participates in Wiley's Refer & Transfer program: manuscripts not accepted may be recommended for transfer to another suitable Wiley journal, either by the editor or through the Transfer Desk.
• Editorial independence: Decisions are made by the editors on the basis of scope fit, reviewer reports and scientific quality.

Wiley publishes a median submission-to-first-decision time of 14 days for the journal (all submissions, including desk rejections), which is unusually fast for a journal of this selectivity and reflects the rapid desk screening applied to the large submission volume.

Impact and Metrics

Advanced Materials is one of the highest-cited journals in materials science. The table below collects its principal metrics, each attributed to its source and year. Note that the widely quoted figure of 27.4 was the journal's 2023 Journal Impact Factor; newer Journal Citation Reports releases have since superseded it.

The journal sits in the top tier of the materials science category in the Journal Citation Reports and is consistently ranked among the most cited journals in its field. Its large citation volume — over half a million total citations per recent aggregator data — reflects both its high per-paper citation rate and the scale of its weekly output.

Submission Guidelines

The following is a summary of the journal's official author guidelines (Wiley Online Library author hub). Authors should always consult the current guide before preparing a manuscript, as details can change.

• Submission route: Manuscripts are submitted through Wiley's online submission service; the journal's homepage links to the current submission site and step-by-step instructions.
• Free Format submission: For new submissions the journal offers Free Format — authors may submit a single editable file (Word) or a single PDF generated from LaTeX containing text, figures and tables, in any consistent reference style, without reformatting to the journal's layout. Formatting to house style is only required at the revision stage, and Word and LaTeX templates are provided for all article types.
• Language: Manuscripts must be written in American English and be grammatically correct. Wiley offers a professional language-editing service for authors who need it.
• ORCID: An ORCID iD is required for the submitting author at submission.
• Title page requirements: The manuscript must include a descriptive title (title case, no formulas, no references), the full author list with affiliations and corresponding-author contact details, 3–7 keywords, and an abstract of no more than 200 words written in the present tense and impersonal style, without references.
• Table of Contents entry: Authors provide a short ToC text of 50–60 words for a general audience plus a ToC figure conveying the article's main message (the author must hold the copyright in the image).
• Ethics statements: The title page must carry statements covering data availability, funding, conflict-of-interest disclosure, ethics approval, patient consent where relevant, permission to reproduce third-party material, and clinical trial registration where applicable.
• Authorship and originality: The corresponding author must confirm that all authors have seen and approved the manuscript. Duplicate submission is forbidden. The senior scientist on each manuscript should normally hold a permanent staff position at an academic or research institution (or be permanently contracted staff in industry); exceptions are at the editorial office's discretion.
• Preprints and theses: Manuscripts previously posted as preprints on non-profit community servers such as ChemRxiv, bioRxiv or arXiv, or published as a graduate thesis, may be considered — but only the original submitted version may be posted as a preprint.
• Material disclosure: The structure and composition of all materials central to the work must be disclosed in the main text or Supporting Information, including commercial and proprietary products; manuscripts based on undisclosed compositions may be returned without external review.
• Figures and data presentation: Figures should be supplied at the highest possible resolution (bitmap images at least 300 dpi per figure part); SI units are required throughout; physical data should be reported with decimal points and negative exponents; references use numbered inline citations in square brackets with no submission-stage formatting requirement (typesetters restyle accepted papers).
• Supporting Information: Additional experimental details, figures and multimedia may accompany the manuscript, are published online without editing, and should be submitted as a separate, error-free document.
• Rejection history: If the manuscript is a revised or extended version of a paper previously rejected by the journal, the author must disclose this in the cover letter and explain the changes in detail.

Open Access and APC

Advanced Materials is a hybrid journal: the default route is subscription publication at no charge to the author, with an optional paid open-access route through Wiley's OnlineOpen program. If the open-access option is selected, an article publication charge (APC) applies on acceptance.

Official APC figure: not published on a verifiable official page. Wiley maintains a journal-level OnlineOpen page for each title, but we could not verify a journal-specific APC figure for Advanced Materials on an official Wiley page during this research. Two secondary signals exist and are flagged as unverified: the ResearchGate journal profile lists an article processing charge of $6,070 / £4,580 / €5,290, while the OpenAlex-based estimate shown on journalmetrics.org is $5,250 (explicitly labeled by that site as an unverified journal-level estimate). Authors should confirm the current fee on the journal's official OnlineOpen page before deciding.

Articles published through OnlineOpen are released under a Creative Commons license (typically CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND, depending on funder mandates). The APC may be covered in full or in part where the corresponding author's institution, funder or society holds a Wiley Open Access Account, and many institutions participate in Wiley transformational agreements that cover hybrid-journal APCs — authors should check eligibility with their library or open-access administrator. Taxes (VAT/GST) may be added where required by law.

Key Facts

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Advanced Materials?

Advanced Materials is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all of materials science, with an emphasis on the chemistry and physics of functional materials. Published by Wiley-VCH since 1988, it is the flagship title of Wiley's Advanced Portfolio and one of the most cited journals in its field.

2. Who publishes Advanced Materials?

The journal is published by Wiley-VCH GmbH, based in Weinheim, Germany, where its editorial office is also located. It appears on Wiley Online Library under the Advanced journals hub.

3. What is the current impact factor of Advanced Materials?

According to the journal's official Wiley page, its current Journal Impact Factor is 29.1 (2025 data year, Journal Citation Reports released in 2026). Earlier values were 26.8 for 2024 and 27.4 for 2023 — so the frequently quoted 27.4 is now out of date.

4. What is the acceptance rate?

Wiley publishes an acceptance rate of 15% for the journal, reflecting a very selective desk-screening process in which a large share of submissions are declined without external peer review.

5. How long does the review process take?

Wiley reports a median of 14 days from submission to first decision (including desk rejections). Papers that go out for full peer review naturally take longer; post-acceptance, articles typically appear online as Early View within a few weeks.

6. Who are the editors-in-chief?

Irem Bayindir-Buchhalter and Esther Levy serve as joint editors-in-chief, appointed together in the first issue of 2024. Levy previously held the editorship from 2002 to 2006, and Bayindir-Buchhalter is also editor-in-chief of Wiley's Advanced NanoBiomed Research.

7. What kinds of articles does the journal publish?

The journal's official overview lists Research Articles, Reviews and Perspectives as its current article types. Historically it also published Communications, Progress Reports, Research News, Essays and Correspondences.

8. Is Advanced Materials open access, and what is the APC?

It is a hybrid journal: subscription publication is free to authors, and open access is available via Wiley's OnlineOpen program for an APC. Wiley does not publish a journal-specific APC figure on a verifiable official page; secondary sources suggest a figure in the roughly $5,250–$6,070 range — treat this as unverified and confirm the current fee on the official OnlineOpen page.

9. Does Advanced Materials allow preprints?

Yes. The official author guidelines state that manuscripts previously posted on non-profit community preprint servers such as ChemRxiv, bioRxiv or arXiv, or published as a graduate thesis, may be considered — but only the original submitted version may be posted as a preprint.

10. How often is the journal published, and what are its ISSNs?

The journal is published weekly, with 52 issues per year. Its print ISSN is 0935-9648 and its online ISSN is 1521-4095 (CODEN: ADVMEW).

11. How do I submit a manuscript?

Manuscripts are submitted through Wiley's online submission service via the journal's homepage. New submissions benefit from Free Format — a single Word or LaTeX-generated PDF file in any consistent reference style — with house-style formatting required only at revision. An ORCID iD for the submitting author is required.

12. Is Advanced Materials indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE?

Yes. The journal was selected for indexing in MEDLINE in 2009, alongside its coverage in Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded), Scopus and Chemical Abstracts Service, among others.

13. What topics does Advanced Materials cover?

Essentially the whole of materials science: nanotechnology, semiconductors, optics, photovoltaics, batteries, biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering, metamaterials, thin films, colloids, carbon nanomaterials, self-assembly and more — unified by an emphasis on work significant to the broader materials community rather than a single subfield.

14. When was Advanced Materials founded?

The journal was launched in 1988 as a supplement to Angewandte Chemie, founded by that journal's editor Peter Goelitz. It became a standalone publication after its first eighteen months, switched from monthly to weekly publication in 2009, and has published 52 issues per year since 2018.