About InfoMat

InfoMat — Full Journal Profile

InfoMat is a fully open-access, interdisciplinary journal co-published by Wiley and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Launched in 2019, it sits at the meeting point of materials science and information technology: it publishes research on materials with distinctive electrical, optical and magnetic properties, and on how those materials can be built into the devices and systems that carry, store, sense and process information. Its principal ISSN is 2567-3165, with a second registered ISSN of 2770-5110 recorded alongside it by OpenAlex and library catalogues; the ISSN-L linking the two is 2567-3165. On this Journals World record (post 951, slug infomat), identity is anchored by those ISSNs and by the journal's home on Wiley Online Library.

InfoMat arrived with unusual speed of recognition. It received its first Journal Impact Factor of 25.405 in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports — a figure Wiley announced publicly, noting that the journal ranked in the top 5 per cent (11th of 335) of the Materials Science, Multidisciplinary category — and it has remained a Q1 title across all of its Scopus subject categories. It is one of a small group of partnership journals through which Wiley publishes with leading Chinese universities, and its authorship and readership are correspondingly global, with a strong base in China and East Asia. This profile sets out the journal's verified identity, history, scope, editorial leadership, metrics, open-access terms and submission process, attributing every figure to its source.

Quick Facts

History and Development

InfoMat was launched in 2019 as a co-publication of Wiley and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, an institution with deep strength in electronic science and engineering. The founding editorial, "InfoMat: a cross-field exploration of information technology and materials science," explained the wager behind the title: modern information technology is, at bottom, applied materials science — every advance in displays, sensors, memory, photonics and wearable devices rests on materials with the right electrical, optical or magnetic behaviour — yet the two communities published in separate places. InfoMat was designed as their shared platform, staffed by an international board drawn from leading groups across materials science, chemistry, physics and electrical engineering.

The founding Editor-in-Chief is Professor Yanrong Li of UESTC, director of the State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films, who took responsibility for the whole publication process; at launch he was supported by five associate editors, including researchers based in Singapore and Europe, a structure intended to keep peer review fast and internationally balanced. The journal also began with a deliberate visibility strategy: there were no article publication charges for its first three publication years, removing the cost barrier while it built a reputation and an indexing record.

The strategy worked quickly. The journal was accepted into the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, was listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals from 2019, and in July 2021 Wiley announced its first Journal Impact Factor of 25.405, placing it 11th of 335 journals in its Journal Citation Reports category and inside the top 5 per cent. Few journals reach that band within two citation cycles; it signalled both the citation density of the fields InfoMat covers — two-dimensional materials, energy-storage materials, flexible and wearable electronics — and the journal's success in attracting review and research articles that the community actually uses. Since then the journal has continued as a high-volume, selective open-access title, and its most-cited articles (surveyed below) show a consistent editorial taste: enabling materials, devices that exploit them, and computational methods that accelerate both.

Aims and Scope in Detail

The journal's own description is precise about its territory. InfoMat addresses the growing scientific interest in new materials with unique electrical, optical and magnetic properties, and in the application of those materials to the rapid development of information technology. It aims to publish experimental and theoretical work on advanced materials, with a particular focus on the fabrication and characterisation of materials with novel properties. Its scope is internationally broad and falls within the materials science, electrical and electronics, and telecommunication categories. It particularly welcomes innovative, interdisciplinary research with wide impact, and its readership spans researchers and engineers in both academia and industry.

In practice, the published record shows what that means. Highly cited InfoMat papers include work on wearable electronics and photonics moving toward intelligent, connected systems; strain engineering of two-dimensional materials; theoretical models for lithium–sulfur battery cathodes; manganese-based oxides for aqueous zinc-ion batteries; two-dimensional MXenes for wearable and flexible electronics; separator design enabling dendrite-free zinc anodes; and machine learning methods that accelerate materials development for energy storage and conversion. The pattern is consistent: a material or method, characterised convincingly, and connected to a device, system or information-technology application. Purely incremental synthesis reports without a property or application advance, and device papers with no materials insight, both fit the stated scope less well than work that crosses the boundary the journal was founded to cross.

The journal invites original research articles and review articles, and its founding editorial also lists Letters to the Editor among its formats; all papers are published online as soon as they are accepted and are fully citable. Reviews carry particular weight in the journal's citation profile, and prospective review authors should expect to demonstrate recognised standing in the topic they propose to survey. Because InfoMat is fully open access, everything it publishes is free to read worldwide immediately on publication, which suits its industry-facing readership as much as its academic one.

Editorial Leadership and Peer Review

Editor-in-Chief Yanrong Li leads the journal from UESTC in Chengdu, China, supported by associate editors and an international editorial board spanning materials science, chemistry, applied and theoretical physics, and electrical engineering. The launch editorial describes this board as the journal's gatekeepers, chosen from leading research groups worldwide; the board model differs from the in-house professional-editor model used by the Nature titles elsewhere in this batch, and it means manuscripts are typically handled by an editor who is an active researcher in a neighbouring area.

Peer review is single-anonymised in the Wiley partnership-journal pattern for this title (the sister partnership journals state this explicitly, and InfoMat's article PDFs carry the standard Wiley review and copyright lines, showing publication by UESTC and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of the partners). Accepted articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, as recorded in the journal's DOAJ listing, so authors retain copyright and the work can be reused with attribution — a term that satisfies the open-access mandates of most major funders. Wiley's production operation then publishes the version of record on Wiley Online Library with a DOI in the 10.1002/inf2 series, the "inf2" stem that appears on every InfoMat article and is a useful authenticity check when verifying a citation.

Metrics and What They Mean

InfoMat's headline historical metric is verified by its publisher: a first Journal Impact Factor of 25.405 in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports, announced by Wiley in July 2021 with a category rank of 11 of 335 in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary. Later cycles have been lower than that exceptional debut — a normal pattern for a young journal whose denominator grows — and aggregator listings based on recent Journal Citation Reports cycles report values in the high teens to low twenties (19.6 in one current listing, 22.7 in another). Because those aggregator figures disagree with each other, this profile does not present a single "current" impact factor as settled fact: authors who need the operative number should read it in Journal Citation Reports itself or on the journal's Wiley metrics page. What is not in dispute is the journal's tier: every listing places it in Q1 and among the leading titles in its categories.

On Scopus-derived measures, SCImago-based listings report an h-index of 103 and an SJR of 5.171, with Q1 rankings in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials; Materials Chemistry; Materials Science (miscellaneous); and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. OpenAlex, counting a broader corpus, records 933 works and 44,465 citations for the journal (source S4210212605, fetched directly in October 2026), computes an h-index of 114 on its own data, and reports a two-year mean citedness of about 15.2. As with the other profiles in this batch, the OpenAlex and SCImago h-indexes (114 versus 103) differ because the underlying databases differ; both describe a journal whose average article is heavily cited by the standards of materials science. OpenAlex also confirms the journal's open-access status and records the same article processing charge as DOAJ, US$3,000, which cross-verifies the fee from an independent direction.

For context on selectivity and use: the journal publishes a few hundred articles a year (Wiley's metrics for the journal have reported roughly two hundred articles annually in recent cycles), which at its citation levels implies demanding selection rather than volume publishing. Its citation profile is led by reviews and by papers in fast-moving device-material areas — wearable electronics, MXenes, zinc-based batteries, two-dimensional materials — so citation expectations differ sharply by sub-field, and authors should compare their work against recent InfoMat papers in their own area rather than against the journal-wide averages.

Indexing and Discoverability

InfoMat is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded) and in Scopus, and it is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, where its record (added 26 June 2019) confirms the publisher, the CC BY licence and the article processing charge quoted in this profile. Its articles are discoverable through Wiley Online Library, Google Scholar and the standard bibliographic databases, and because every article is open access under CC BY, the full text circulates through institutional repositories and scholarly networks without paywall friction. The journal's Crossref DOIs (prefix 10.1002, suffix stem inf2) and its dual-ISSN registration (2567-3165 and 2770-5110) are both normal features of its records in library catalogues; the Wageningen library catalogue entry, for example, lists "ISSN: 2567-3165 (2770-5110)" for this title.

Open Access and Charges

InfoMat is a gold open-access journal: every accepted article is published open access under CC BY, and the article processing charge recorded by DOAJ is US$3,000, £2,300 or €2,550 depending on the payer's currency. The charge in this record's earlier template (£2,300) matches the sterling figure in the DOAJ record, and OpenAlex independently records US$3,000, so the fee level is doubly verified; even so, fees are revised from time to time and the publisher's open-access page for the journal is the governing source at submission. There were no publication charges during the journal's first three publication years (2019–2021), a launch policy described in Wiley's own launch coverage; that waiver period has ended and should not be assumed to apply now. Authors at institutions with Wiley open-access agreements may find the charge covered centrally, and eligibility is checked during the submission process.

How to Submit and What to Expect

Manuscripts are submitted through Wiley's online submission system for the journal, linked from its Wiley Online Library homepage, where the author guidelines set out the criteria for each article type; the founding editorial explicitly encourages contributors to read those guidelines before submitting. Prepare a manuscript that leads with the materials advance and its information-technology relevance: editors and referees for this journal routinely ask what property is new, how convincingly it is characterised, and what device or system capability it enables. Strong InfoMat submissions typically combine synthesis or fabrication, rigorous characterisation, and a demonstration — a working device, a validated model, or a performance figure that moves a recognised frontier. Data should be presented to the standards of the relevant sub-community (electrochemical cycling protocols for battery papers, device statistics for electronics papers), because the journal's referees come from those communities.

Aggregator listings report a publication time of about eight weeks as an average for the journal, and Wiley partnership journals are generally run for speed; treat any such figure as indicative rather than promised, since review timelines depend on referee availability in the sub-field. Accepted papers are published online as soon as production is complete and are fully citable with their DOI before issue assignment.

Is InfoMat the Right Venue for Your Paper?

Choose InfoMat when your work is genuinely two-field work: a material, structure or method whose value is realised in an information technology — sensing, display, memory, communication, energy storage for devices, wearable or flexible systems, photonics — and when the results are strong enough to interest readers from both sides of that boundary. It is a particularly effective venue when open access matters, because the CC BY licence and the journal's visibility give papers a wide public reach at a fee well below the open-access charges of the large commercial selective journals. It is a weaker fit for single-discipline incremental studies, for application engineering with no materials insight, and for work whose natural audience is a narrow specialist community that already has its own leading journals. In those cases a specialist Wiley, society or institute title will usually serve the paper better and faster.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of InfoMat? 2567-3165 is the principal ISSN and the ISSN-L; a second ISSN, 2770-5110, is also registered for the title and appears in OpenAlex and library catalogue records.

Who publishes InfoMat? Wiley, in partnership with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Article PDFs carry the line that InfoMat is published by UESTC and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

Is InfoMat open access? Yes, fully. It is listed in DOAJ, publishes under CC BY, and charges an article processing charge of US$3,000 / £2,300 / €2,550 (DOAJ record).

What was InfoMat's first impact factor? 25.405, in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports, announced by Wiley in July 2021; the journal ranked 11th of 335 in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary. Later aggregator-reported values vary (19.6–22.7), so check Journal Citation Reports for the cycle you need.

Who is the Editor-in-Chief? Professor Yanrong Li of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, director of the State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films, who has led the journal since its 2019 launch.

Where is the journal based? Sources describe different facets of a partnership title: the co-publishing university is in Chengdu, China (OpenAlex records the source country as China); the Journals World taxonomy lists John Wiley and Sons Ltd with the United Kingdom; and the DOAJ record gives the publisher's country as Australia, matching the Wiley Australia imprint on published articles. The editorial home is UESTC; the publishing operation is Wiley's.

What kinds of papers does it publish? Original research and review articles (with Letters among its founding formats) on materials with electrical, optical or magnetic properties and their information-technology applications, spanning fabrication, characterisation, devices and theory.

Sources and Verification

This profile was compiled from the journal's founding editorial (Li, "InfoMat: a cross-field exploration of information technology and materials science," 2019) for history, editorship and scope; Wiley's newsroom announcement of the first Journal Impact Factor (July 2021); Wiley's Advanced Science News launch description for scope and the initial no-charge period; the DOAJ record for ISSN 2567-3165, fetched directly from the DOAJ search API in October 2026 (publisher, licence, APC, listing date); the OpenAlex source record S4210212605, fetched directly in October 2026 (works, citations, h-index, ISSN pair, open-access status, APC); SCImago-derived listings for quartiles, SJR and h-index; and library catalogue records confirming the dual-ISSN registration. Where sources conflict — recent impact-factor values and the country attributed to a partnership publisher — the conflict is stated in the text rather than resolved by assertion. Verified October 2026.