About Materials Research Express

Materials Research Express™ (MRX) is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to publishing new experimental and theoretical research on the properties, characterization, design and fabrication of all classes of materials, and on their technological applications.

Characterized by article length flexibility and a fast-track peer review process, areas of particular interest include:

• Materials characterization
• Material properties
• Computational materials science and modelling
• Material applications
• Synthesis and fabrication
• Engineering applications of materials listed below^†

Material classes within the journal scope:^*

• Biomaterials
• Carbon allotropes and 2D materials
• Electronic materials (including semiconductors)
• Glasses and ceramics
• Magnetic materials
• Metals and alloys
• Nanomaterials and nanostructures
• Photonic materials and metamaterials
• Polymers and organic compounds
• Smart materials
• Soft matter
• Superconducting materials
• Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

^†Please note, MRX does not usually consider work relating to materials used solely for structural or civil engineering. However, within our ‘Metals and Alloys’ scope, we will consider work on new and complex alloys, aspects of tribology including lubrication and corrosion resistance; microstructure and structure analysis, surface wear analysis etc.

^*Please note that the definitions provided for these material classes are not exhaustive.

• High standards: fast, rigorous and constructive reviewing process.
• Fast publication: we are committed to providing you with a quick, professional service to ensure rapid first decision, acceptance and publication. Once accepted, your article will be accessible to readers within 24 hours and will include a citable DOI.
• Open access: your paper will be published under a CC BY licence enabling immediate and perpetual access, and permitting the widest possible dissemination and reuse of your research, but only with clear attribution to you as the copyright owner.
• Transfer opportunities: as well as accepting direct submissions, the journal also offers you a quick and easy solution to transfer your manuscript from another IOP Publishing journal if it does not fit that journal’s scope or significance criteria. Articles are transferred along with peer review reports to save time and avoid duplication of work for reviewers.
• International Editorial Board.
• Society owned: IOP Publishing is a leading society publisher of advanced physics research. Any profits generated by IOP Publishing are invested in the Institute of Physics, helping to support research, education and outreach around the world.

MRX welcomes submissions of the following article types:

• Research papers: articles of unlimited length that report new research of high quality.
• Perspectives: commissioned brief commentaries that highlight the impact and wider implications of new research reported in materials research. Perspectives may occasionally be commissioned by the Editorial Board on a broader theme of relevance to the materials community.
• Topical reviews: invited review articles that provide a snapshot of recent progress in a particular field relevant to materials science. The typical length is between 10 000–15 000 words. Topical reviews are usually commissioned by the Editorial Board, however unsolicited proposals from the community that comply with the journal’s criteria will also be considered. If you would like to propose a topical review for publication in MRX, please contact the journal.
• Focus issues: each focus issue serves to highlight timely work conducted within specific areas of interest. Articles are commissioned by Guest Editors.
• Tutorials: often written by early career researchers, tutorial articles are like concise review articles, providing a summary of a relevant area of materials science.

To be published in MRX an article must be scientifically rigorous and should report new, previously unpublished research that will be of archival value to specialists in an immediate field of materials science (and possibly beyond). Please see our review procedure page for more information.

We work with our authors to help make their work as easy to discover as possible. MRX is currently included in the following abstracting and discovery services:

• Baidu Scholar
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• CNKI
• DOAJ
• Ei Compendex
• INIS (International Nuclear Information System)
• Inspec
• J-Gate
• JST
• MyScienceWork
• NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Naver Academic
• ProQuest Central
• ProQuest Materials Science Collection
• ProQuest Materials Science Database
• ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
• ProQuest Technology Collection
• R Discovery
• Scilit
• Scite
• Scopus
• Semantic Scholar
• Wanfang Data
• Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, Essential Science Indicators)
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