About Review of Materials Research

Review of Materials Research

Review of Materials Research is an open access scholarly journal published by Elsevier in Netherlands. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the community-curated directory that screens open access journals against transparency and best-practice criteria before including them. It is published in association with Chinese Materials Research Society. The journal is identified by online ISSN 3050-9130. This profile brings together the verifiable facts recorded about the journal in its DOAJ listing and on its official website, explains the subject territory it covers, describes how its publishing model works, and gives prospective authors a practical account of what to check before submitting a manuscript. Where a fact could not be verified from those sources, this profile says so plainly rather than filling the gap with an estimate, because authors making a submission decision deserve information they can rely on.

The journal's recorded subject coverage is Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials; Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks. Its declared keywords are materials research, reviews, frontier research, structural materials, nanomaterials, microstructure modulation. Taken together, those pieces of information describe the centre of gravity of the journal: the disciplines it serves, the conversations it takes part in, and the readers it is published for. Authors considering the journal should test their manuscript against that description honestly. A paper that falls squarely inside the declared subjects and keywords begins its life at the journal with an advantage, because the editors can immediately see its fit and can send it to reviewers who work in the same area. A paper that sits at the edge of the scope can still succeed, but its author carries the extra burden of explaining, in the abstract and the covering message, why this journal's readers are the right audience for it.

Elsevier is responsible for the journal's publication in Netherlands. Publishers of scholarly journals carry responsibility for the editorial infrastructure behind the title: the submission system, the peer review workflow, production, hosting, and the long-term availability of the published record. Its directory record states that the journal has published all of its content under an open licence since 2025. Readers who want to browse current and past issues, see the most recent articles, or check announcements such as special issue calls should go to the official journal website, which is the authoritative source for everything about the title; this profile is a guide to the journal, not a substitute for the journal itself. At the time its directory record was compiled, 144 article records from the journal were indexed in DOAJ, which gives a sense of the scale of its published output.

Aims and Scope

The aims and scope of Review of Materials Research are defined by its editors on the journal's official website, and the subject headings and keywords recorded in its DOAJ listing summarise that scope in condensed form. Its declared keywords are materials research, reviews, frontier research, structural materials, nanomaterials, microstructure modulation. The journal's recorded subject coverage is Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials; Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks. For a prospective author, the practical reading of a scope statement is threefold. First, it identifies the questions the journal exists to publish: work that speaks to those questions is the journal's core content. Second, it identifies the methods and evidence the journal's reviewers will treat as credible, because reviewers are drawn from the community the scope describes. Third, it quietly identifies what the journal does not publish, which matters just as much: a manuscript outside the scope will usually be returned quickly, however good it is, simply because the journal's readers would not be the right audience for it.

Scope fit is therefore the single most useful check an author can run before submitting to Review of Materials Research. Read two or three recent articles in the journal that resemble your own work. If your manuscript would sit comfortably beside them — similar questions, similar standards of evidence, similar readership — the fit is probably real. If you would have to describe your paper's relevance in strained or indirect terms, another journal is likely to serve the work better. Editors can tell the difference quickly, and a clear scope fit also shapes everything downstream: the choice of reviewers, the questions they ask, and the readership that will find, read, and cite the published article.

The journal's scope should also be read as an invitation to a particular scholarly community. Journals are not neutral containers; they are conversations carried on over years, with editors, reviewers, authors, and readers who recognise one another's problems and standards. Publishing in Review of Materials Research places a piece of work inside that conversation. For researchers building a programme of work in the journal's territory, that placement can matter as much as the publication itself, because it determines who encounters the work first, who reviews it most knowledgeably, and who is most likely to build on it.

Publication Details

• Online ISSN: 3050-9130
• Publisher: Elsevier (Netherlands)
• Open access: yes — listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Article processing charge: 1600 USD (confirm the current amount on the journal's website before submitting)
• Licence: CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
• Peer review: Anonymous peer review
• Official website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/review-of-materials-research
• DOAJ record: https://doaj.org/toc/4652fb7b0eb042ee8a6fc317b346aa27

The identifiers above matter more than they might appear to. An ISSN is the journal's permanent fingerprint in the scholarly record: libraries, indexers, and citation databases use it to tie articles, issues, and title changes together, and authors should quote the correct ISSN when a funder, institution, or promotion committee asks where a paper appeared. The distinction between a print ISSN and an online ISSN is historical — many journals now publish online only — but both identifiers, where they exist, refer to the same title and the same editorial operation. Checking that the ISSN on a journal's website matches the ISSN in its DOAJ record is also one of the simplest authenticity checks an author can run: legitimate journals present consistent identifiers everywhere, while imitation websites that borrow a real journal's name frequently get the identifiers wrong.

Publication frequency is set by the journal's editorial office and is stated on its official website; this profile does not guess at a schedule that the journal itself has not stated in its directory record. What matters practically for authors is less the nominal frequency than the journal's actual throughput — how regularly issues or articles appear, and how long accepted work waits before it is published. Its DOAJ record gives an average of 5 weeks between submission and publication. Authors working to a deadline, such as a thesis submission, a funding report, or a promotion case, should look at the dates on recent articles rather than relying on any single average, and should ask the editorial office directly if timing is critical.

The Publisher and the Journal's Setting

Understanding who publishes a journal helps an author understand what the journal is for. Elsevier publishes Review of Materials Research from Netherlands, and the journal's open access model means its content is written for readers everywhere rather than only for subscribers. Open access publishing of this kind is usually sustained in one of a small number of ways: by charges to authors or their institutions, by a parent organisation that funds the journal as part of its mission, or by some combination of the two. The fee information in this profile records which of those models the journal's own directory listing supports, and the journal's website is the place to confirm the current position.

Its directory record states that the journal has published all of its content under an open licence since 2025. An open licence is what makes open access meaningful rather than merely free to read: it tells readers, teachers, and other researchers exactly what they may do with the work — whether they can share it, reuse figures, translate it, or build on it in course materials — without seeking permission each time. Content is published under CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND terms, as recorded in the journal's DOAJ listing. Its DOAJ record states that copyright arrangements follow the terms set out on the journal's website, which authors should read before signing any publishing agreement. Authors who care about retaining rights in their own work, as many funders now require, should read the journal's licence and copyright pages directly before submitting, because the detail — not the headline — determines what they can later do with their own article.

Editorial Process and Peer Review

The journal uses anonymous peer review. The journal operates a plagiarism screening policy for submitted manuscripts, as recorded in its DOAJ listing. Peer review is the journal's quality mechanism, and its recorded form tells authors a good deal about what to expect. Where identities are concealed on one or both sides of the process, the system is designed to judge the work rather than the author; where review is open or signed, the emphasis falls on accountability. In every model, the practical implications for authors are similar: submit a complete, carefully prepared manuscript, expect searching questions about method and evidence, and treat reviewer reports as expert advice offered free of charge — even when the decision is disappointing, the reports usually identify exactly what would make the work publishable somewhere.

The editorial board page of Review of Materials Research lists the scholars responsible for the journal's academic direction, and authors are encouraged to read it before submitting. A board whose members work in the journal's declared territory, at institutions the journal's readers recognise, is a sign of a well-anchored title. The board page is also the right place to check for a potential handling editor whose interests match a submission, and to confirm that the journal's leadership is real, named, and contactable — a basic transparency test that imitation journals routinely fail. The editorial office, not this profile, is the authority on who currently holds each role, since boards change as members rotate.

On timing, the journal's DOAJ record gives an average of 5 weeks between submission and publication. Treat that figure as an orientation rather than a promise: individual manuscripts move faster or slower depending on reviewer availability, the extent of revision required, and the journal's production queue. Authors can help the clock by responding to revision requests promptly and completely, supplying files in the requested formats, and answering every reviewer point in a covering response — incomplete revisions are the most common avoidable cause of delay in journals of every kind.

Open Access, Licensing and Fees

According to its DOAJ record, the journal charges an article processing charge (APC) of 1600 USD. This is the journal's stated publication charge at the time the record was compiled; authors should confirm the current amount on the journal's fees page before submitting, because charges can change and because the amount that applies can depend on article type or on agreements between the publisher and an author's institution. The journal also operates a waiver policy, described on its website, which may reduce or remove the charge for eligible authors. Budgeting for a submission should therefore start from the official fees page rather than from this profile, and authors who need a waiver or an institutional agreement to cover the charge should raise the question with the editorial office before the manuscript enters review, not after acceptance.

Open access at Review of Materials Research means the published version of each article is free for anyone to read, without a subscription or payment barrier at the point of use. Content is published under CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND terms. Its DOAJ record states that copyright arrangements follow the terms set out on the journal's website, which authors should read before signing any publishing agreement. For readers, that means the work can be found, read, and shared by practitioners, students, patients, policymakers, and researchers at institutions without large subscription budgets — the audiences for whom subscription barriers are most often the difference between using research and never seeing it. For authors, it means the readership of a paper is not limited to the subscription list of a single publisher, and it increasingly means compliance with funder and institutional mandates that require publicly funded research to be publicly readable.

Before submitting, authors should confirm three licensing points on the journal's own pages: the exact licence applied to articles, who holds copyright, and whether any embargo or condition applies to the accepted manuscript version in repositories. These details decide whether an author can deposit the paper in an institutional repository, post it to a scholarly network, or reuse it in a thesis. Where a funder mandates a particular licence, the check is essential rather than optional, and it must be made against the journal's current terms, because licence policies evolve.

Indexing, Preservation and the Scholarly Record

Review of Materials Research is recorded in the Directory of Open Access Journals under online ISSN 3050-9130. Long-term preservation is provided through CLOCKSS, Portico. Articles carry persistent identifiers (DOI), which give each published paper a stable citation link. Indexing in DOAJ is itself a meaningful signal: the directory applies inclusion criteria covering transparency of editorial information, licensing clarity, and stated peer review, and it removes journals that stop meeting them. Authors should nevertheless check the specific abstracting and indexing services that matter in their own field — the services their colleagues actually search — on the journal's website, because each service makes its own inclusion decision and listings change over time. This profile deliberately does not reproduce a long list of indexing claims that could not be verified against the journal's own pages at the time of writing.

Preservation deserves more attention than it usually gets. A journal article is meant to remain citable for decades, and that requires deliberate archiving: deposits with preservation services, persistent identifiers that resolve even if a website changes, and bibliographic records held by libraries and directories independent of the publisher. The arrangements recorded for this journal are summarised above as they appear in its directory listing. Authors publishing work they expect to be cited for a long time — a dataset description, a standard method, a reference review — are entitled to weigh those arrangements alongside impact and speed when choosing where to submit.

Submitting to the Journal

Submissions to Review of Materials Research are made through the journal's official website, following its instructions for authors. The journal accepts manuscripts in English. Before submitting, work through a short preparation sequence. First, re-read the aims and scope with your manuscript open beside them, and adjust the framing — not the findings — so that the paper's contribution to this journal's conversation is explicit in the title, abstract, and introduction. Second, format the manuscript exactly as the instructions require, including reference style, figure and table conventions, and any required statements on ethics approval, consent, funding, conflicts of interest, and data availability that apply in the journal's field. Third, prepare the ancillary material the system will ask for: a covering letter that states the work's novelty and fit in a few sentences, suggested or opposed reviewers if the journal invites them, and the names and affiliations of all authors in their final order.

Most journals, including this one, expect submitted work to be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere; simultaneous submission to multiple journals is a breach of publication ethics everywhere and usually ends badly for the authors when it surfaces. Authors should also disclose related work — a conference paper, a preprint, a thesis chapter — rather than leaving editors to discover it. Preprint policies vary, so check the journal's stated position before posting a manuscript publicly. On acceptance, read the publishing agreement or licence form before signing: it is a real contract about your own work, and the time to query a clause is before signature, not after publication.

Rejection, if it comes, is information rather than verdict. A desk rejection for scope tells the author to retarget the paper, not to rewrite it. A rejection after review comes with reports that usually show exactly which claims the field found unconvincing and what evidence would change that. The strongest response to either outcome is the unglamorous one: take the criticism seriously, improve the paper, and submit somewhere better matched. Journals in the same territory as Review of Materials Research form an ecosystem, and a paper that is wrong for one of them is often right for another at the first attempt once its framing is honest about its audience.

Who Reads and Publishes in This Journal

The readership of Review of Materials Research follows from its scope: researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners working across Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials; Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks, together with the wider community that open access brings — readers at institutions and in countries where subscription access to the field's literature is limited or absent. Its keywords — materials research, reviews, frontier research, structural materials, nanomaterials, microstructure modulation — are a fair map of the problems its readers bring to it. Authors publishing here reach that readership directly, and because the content is openly licensed, articles can be assigned in teaching, shared in professional networks, and picked up by readers outside the author's own sub-specialty who would never have encountered a subscription-only version.

For early-career researchers especially, a journal like this offers a particular combination: a defined scholarly community that will actually read the work, a peer review process that will test it properly, and open availability that makes the paper easy to share with employers, collaborators, and funders. Those qualities do not appear in league tables, but they shape how much a publication actually does for the work and for the author's development. Choosing a journal is choosing the first and most attentive audience a piece of research will ever have; Review of Materials Research's audience, as described in its own scope and directory record, is the audience this profile has tried to make visible.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Review of Materials Research open access?

Yes. The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, and its content is published under an open licence (CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND) on the terms recorded in its listing and on its website.

Does Review of Materials Research charge authors to publish?

The journal charges an article processing charge (apc) of 1600 usd. Always confirm the current position on the journal's official fees page before submitting, because charges and policies can change.

What subjects does the journal cover?

The journal's recorded subject coverage is Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials; Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks. Its declared keywords are materials research, reviews, frontier research, structural materials, nanomaterials, microstructure modulation. The full aims and scope statement on the journal's website is the authoritative description, and authors should read it in full before submitting.

How is the journal identified?

The journal is identified by online ISSN 3050-9130. Quoting the correct ISSN helps libraries, funders, and indexers connect a published article to the journal unambiguously.

How does peer review work at the journal?

The journal uses anonymous peer review. Its DOAJ record gives an average of 5 weeks between submission and publication. The journal's website describes its editorial process in full, including how to respond to revision requests.

Where should I submit, and where can I read the journal?

Both reading and submission happen through the official journal website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/review-of-materials-research. Its listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals can be consulted at https://doaj.org/toc/4652fb7b0eb042ee8a6fc317b346aa27.

Summary

Review of Materials Research, published by Elsevier in Netherlands and identified by online ISSN 3050-9130, is an open access journal serving Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials; Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks. Its DOAJ listing records its licensing, peer review, and fee position in the terms summarised in this profile: the journal charges an article processing charge (APC) of 1600 USD; anonymous peer review. Authors whose work fits its declared scope will find in this profile the verifiable essentials — publisher, identifiers, access model, charges, and review — and should confirm every operational detail on the journal's official website before submitting, since that site, and not any directory or profile, is the living record of how the journal works today.