Inorg. Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

About Inorg. Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

Inorg. Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) — Journal Profile and Identity Note

This JournalsWorld record carries a title in an old library-catalogue form — Inorg. Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) — and a single stored ISSN, 3034-5588. The abbreviated title expands to Inorganic Materials, English Translation, and the record represents the English-language translation edition of one of the long-established journals of materials chemistry: Inorganic Materials, the English version of the Russian journal Neorganicheskie Materialy. That parent journal was founded in 1965, is edited from Moscow — its editor-in-chief, per the Kurnakov Institute's journal listing, is Academician K. A. Solntsev — and is published in English by Pleiades Publishing (MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica) with international distribution through Springer. The stored record's subject profile — crystal structures and properties, metallurgical and alloy processes, semiconductor materials and interfaces, advanced ceramics, thermoelectric materials, chalcogenide systems and related topics — matches the parent journal's scope precisely.

An identity caution must come first, however, because it affects every metric on this page. The established Inorganic Materials is identified in publisher and index sources by print ISSN 0020-1685 and electronic ISSN 1608-3172 — not by 3034-5588. The JournalsWorld stored record for this post carries only 3034-5588, a stored h-index of 5 and no verified publisher name, whereas the publisher's own page for the established journal reports an h-index of 49 (2024, based on Scopus). The two identifier sets must therefore not be merged or quoted interchangeably. This profile describes the journal family the record evidently intends — the English translation of Neorganicheskie Materialy — using verified facts about that journal, clearly separated from the stored record's own figures, and flags the ISSN conflict prominently for the site's data-review process. Readers who need the authoritative current record should go to the publisher's page for Inorganic Materials under ISSN 0020-1685 / 1608-3172.

At a Glance — Two Identifier Sets, Kept Separate

What the Journal Publishes

Inorganic Materials is a peer-reviewed journal of the chemistry, physics and applications of inorganic materials, including high-purity substances and materials. In the publisher's description, it presents reviews and original articles, discusses phase equilibria — including pressure–temperature–composition (P–T–X) diagrams — and addresses the fundamentals of inorganic materials science that determine the conditions for preparing compounds of specified composition with specified deviations from stoichiometry. It is, by design, multidisciplinary, covering all classes of inorganic materials, and the modern journal also accepts original manuscripts submitted in English alongside translated content, with the source of each article indicated at article level and a peer-review policy applied independently of a manuscript's source.

Phase equilibria and materials fundamentals

The journal's intellectual core is the phase diagram and the defect chemistry that follows from it: how composition, temperature and pressure determine which phases form, how nonstoichiometry arises and can be controlled, and how preparation conditions map onto properties. This is the tradition of Russian materials chemistry in which the journal was founded, and it remains its distinguishing emphasis compared with device-oriented materials titles.

Crystal structures, ceramics and functional materials

The stored record's topic list — crystal structures and properties, advanced ceramic materials synthesis, semiconductor materials and interfaces, advanced semiconductor detectors, thermoelectric materials and devices, chalcogenide systems — is a faithful reflection of the journal's actual contents: single crystals and their growth, oxide and non-oxide ceramics, semiconductors and heterointerfaces, thermoelectrics, and chalcogenide glasses and crystals for optics and electronics.

Metals, alloys and applied materials work

Metallurgical and alloy processes also fall within scope. It is consistent with that breadth that the article matched by Crossref to this record's stored ISSN on its JournalsWorld page is a study of the scatter of impact-toughness values in low-carbon low-alloy hot-rolled steel under repeated Charpy impact testing — structural-materials work of exactly the kind the journal family publishes. High-purity substances, materials for electronics and optoelectronics, and analytical characterisation methods complete the picture.

History: A Translation Journal and Its "(United States)" Label

Neorganicheskie Materialy was established in 1965 in the USSR, at a moment when inorganic materials — semiconductors, laser crystals, high-purity elements — had become strategically central, and a dedicated journal was needed for the chemistry and physics behind them. From early in its life, the journal was translated cover-to-cover into English for Western readers. That translation programme is the origin of the catalogue form in this record's title: for decades, the English edition was produced in the United States, published in New York by Consultants Bureau and later Plenum Publishing — older author instructions for the journal still reference Kluwer Academic/Plenum on the American side, while directing authors to the Russian editorial board in Moscow (historically at Leninskii Prospekt 31). American and British libraries catalogued the translation as a separate serial from the Russian original, with the abbreviated title Inorg. Mater. and a place qualifier — precisely the "(Engl. Transl.); (United States)" form preserved in this record's title.

After the Soviet period, the translation continued under the MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica and Pleiades arrangements that still publish the Russian Academy of Sciences' translated journals today, with Springer handling international distribution and the journal's presence on modern platforms. The English journal today publishes works translated from several Russian journals as well as original English submissions, per the publisher. The legacy US edition, however, left its own bibliographic trail — separate catalogue records, separate holdings, and in some databases separate identifier assignments — and this JournalsWorld post is best understood as a descendant of that trail. That is also the most plausible reading of its stored ISSN: a number attached to the translation-edition record rather than to the current Pleiades journal, whose ISSNs are the long-established 0020-1685 and 1608-3172. Because the provenance of 3034-5588 could not be verified against the publisher's records, this profile does not assert what body assigned it or to exactly which edition; it simply refuses to treat the two numbers as interchangeable.

Indexing of the Established Journal

The publisher's page lists the established Inorganic Materials as indexed across the major services for its field: Scopus and SCImago; Science Citation Index Expanded within Web of Science; Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and Reaxys; EI Compendex; INIS Atomindex; Current Contents (Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences); Dimensions, EBSCO, ProQuest, Google Scholar and numerous national and library services including CNKI, Wanfang, Baidu Scholar, CLOCKSS and Portico preservation, and the Norwegian Register. That depth of indexing — accumulated over six decades — is the context in which the stored record's modest open-data footprint (about 1,289 works and 227 citations, h-index 5) should be read: it is the footprint of a partial, edition-specific record, not of the journal as a whole, whose Scopus-based h-index stands at 49 (2024).

Metrics: Reading Two Records Honestly

Three rules protect readers here. First, never average or combine the stored record's figures with the established journal's figures; they describe different bibliographic objects. Second, when citing Inorganic Materials for evaluation purposes, use the publisher and Scopus record under ISSN 0020-1685 / 1608-3172. Third, treat this post's stored metrics as an artefact to be corrected through the site's data processes: the recommended resolution is either to re-anchor this post to the established ISSNs or to annotate it explicitly as the historical US translation edition, so that future enrichment does not silently conflate the two. This worker flags the conflict and does not alter stored structured fields, which lie outside the content-publishing contract.

For Authors

Authors do not submit to a translation edition. Submissions go to the journal itself: the publisher describes a peer-review process in which manuscripts are evaluated independently of their source, and the journal now welcomes original English-language submissions from all countries in addition to translated Russian content. Practical details — current article types, formatting, any charges, and timelines — are set by the publisher's current instructions for Inorganic Materials and should be taken from the Pleiades/Springer journal page under the established ISSNs. No fee or timeline figure from the legacy edition is stated here, because none could be verified for the current journal from the sources consulted; anything beyond the publisher's own current pages would be speculation.

For librarians and bibliographers, the practical guidance is similar: holdings of the US translation edition belong under the translation's own catalogue record, citations to Inorg. Mater. in older literature refer to the English edition of the Russian journal, and the volume numbering follows the Russian original — an article cited as Inorganic Materials, volume 37, number 9 (2001), for example, will be found translated from Neorganicheskie Materialy, volume 37, number 9, pages differing between editions, with the translation provenance stated on the article itself.

Frequently Asked Questions

What journal does this record represent? The English translation edition of Neorganicheskie Materialy, published in English as Inorganic Materials — historically produced in the United States, which explains the title's place qualifier.

What is the journal's ISSN? The established journal carries print ISSN 0020-1685 and online ISSN 1608-3172. This stored record carries 3034-5588, which does not match the publisher's ISSNs; the conflict is flagged in this profile and should not be silently merged.

When was the journal founded? 1965, as Neorganicheskie Materialy in the USSR, with cover-to-cover English translation following in the same era.

Who edits and publishes it today? The editor-in-chief is Academician K. A. Solntsev (per the Kurnakov Institute listing); the publisher is Pleiades Publishing (MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica), distributed internationally by Springer.

What does it publish? Reviews and original articles on the chemistry, physics and applications of inorganic materials: phase equilibria and P–T–X diagrams, stoichiometry and preparation science, high-purity substances, crystals, ceramics, semiconductors, thermoelectrics, chalcogenides, metals and alloys.

What is its h-index? 49 (2024, Scopus-based) for the established journal, per the publisher. The stored record's figure of 5 describes only this partial edition record.

Where is it indexed? Scopus, SCImago, Science Citation Index Expanded, CAS, EI Compendex, INIS and many other services, per the publisher's listing.

Can authors submit in English? Yes — the modern journal accepts original English manuscripts alongside translated content, under the same peer-review policy, per the publisher.

Key Research Themes in Depth

Three themes give the journal its character, and each rewards a closer look. The first is phase equilibria and stoichiometry. Inorganic compounds routinely depart from their ideal formulas — an oxide may be oxygen-deficient, a chalcogenide may carry excess metal — and those departures govern conductivity, magnetism and optical behaviour. The journal's tradition, set by its founding generation, treats the phase diagram and the defect structure as the foundation from which synthesis must start: determine the equilibrium, then prepare the compound with the deviation you actually want. Papers in this vein pair P–T–X analysis with property measurement, and they remain a reference point for anyone synthesising the same systems today.

The second theme is high-purity substances and crystal growth. The journal was founded when semiconductor and laser technologies demanded materials of unprecedented purity, and it has carried that specialism ever since: purification methods, single-crystal growth, and the characterisation techniques sensitive enough to verify them. The third theme is functional inorganic materials in service — thermoelectrics that convert heat to electricity, chalcogenide glasses that transmit infrared light, ceramic superconductors and dielectrics, detector materials, and the structural alloys whose toughness and fracture behaviour decide the safety of plant and vehicles. A journal holding all three themes together gives its readers something fragmented modern publishing rarely offers: the full chain from equilibrium diagram to working material, in one venue, across six decades.

How the Translation Model Works

Cover-to-cover translation was the Soviet system's answer to a language problem: Russian materials science was world-class, but few Western scientists read Russian. The solution was industrial in scale — a dedicated publishing operation in the United States rendered each issue into English, printed it in New York, and sold it to Western libraries, while citation practice settled on the abbreviated English title, Inorg. Mater. That history explains several otherwise puzzling features of the bibliographic record: why the English edition has its own catalogue entries separate from the Russian original; why its title in older records carries a place qualifier; why page numbers differ between the Russian and English versions of the same article; and why databases occasionally attach unexpected identifiers to the translation trail — the context in which this record's stored ISSN should be understood. The modern arrangement under Pleiades and Springer preserves the model's benefit — Russian-language research, professionally translated and globally distributed, now on standard digital platforms with DOIs — while adding direct English submissions, so the journal today is a translation journal evolving into an international one. Readers citing pre-digital work should always note which edition they used, since pagination, and occasionally the year shown on the issue, can differ between Moscow and New York printings.

The Journal Within Russian Materials Science

The Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences lists Inorganic Materials among its journals, alongside the Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (published since 1956) and the Russian Journal of Coordination Chemistry (founded 1975) — a family that maps the discipline's divisions: inorganic chemistry proper, coordination chemistry, and the materials-focused title founded in 1965 under Academician K. A. Solntsev's present editorship. That institutional anchoring matters for evaluation. This is not a commercial venture trading on a plausible name; it is an Academy journal with a named academician as editor-in-chief, a Moscow editorial office, and a continuous run through the Soviet, transition and modern periods — surviving the collapse of its founding state, the reorganisation of its publisher, and the migration from print translation to digital distribution. Longevity of that kind is itself evidence about a journal, and it is the strongest reason for correcting this record's identifiers rather than discarding the record: the journal it points to is real, significant and well documented, even if the numbers stored here belong to its historical translation trail.

A Note on Sources and Verification

The verified facts in this profile come from the journal's own publishing ecosystem: the publisher's journal page for scope, review model and indexing; the Kurnakov Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the editorship and the 1965 founding; and long-standing journal-guide descriptions of the English edition for its translation history and Moscow editorial address. The stored record's own data — its ISSN, h-index, works count and topic profile — was taken from the post itself and its live JournalsWorld page, including the Crossref-matched steel-toughness article displayed there. The one thing no consulted source could do was reconcile 3034-5588 with the publisher's ISSNs, and this profile has treated that gap honestly: as an unresolved identifier conflict to be corrected in the site's data, not as a detail to be smoothed over in prose. Any future editor updating this page should begin from the publisher's record under 0020-1685 and 1608-3172 and work backwards to the legacy edition, not the other way round.

Summary

Behind the catalogue-style title Inorg. Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) stands Inorganic Materials (founded 1965 as Neorganicheskie Materialy), the Russian Academy tradition's journal of inorganic materials chemistry and physics — phase equilibria, stoichiometry, high-purity substances, crystals, ceramics, semiconductors and functional materials — published today by Pleiades with Springer distribution, edited by Academician K. A. Solntsev, indexed across Scopus, SCIE, CAS and Compendex, with an h-index of 49. This stored record's ISSN (3034-5588) and h-index (5) conflict with the established journal's identifiers (0020-1685 / 1608-3172) and are flagged here as a structured-field conflict for correction: the profile's subject content matches the journal, but its identifiers belong to a legacy translation-edition trail and must not be quoted as the journal's own.