| Cover | Synthetic Metals.gif |
|---|---|
| Editor | Ifor D.W. Samuel |
| Discipline | Materials science |
| Abbreviation | Synth. Met. |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Frequency | 24/year |
| History | 1979–present |
| Impact | 3.266 |
| Impact-year | 2020 |
| Website | http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/504105/description#description |
| Link 1 | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03796779 |
| Link1-name | Online access |
| Oclc | 5540596 |
| Lccn | 80648575 |
| Coden | SYMEDZ |
| Issn | 0379-6779 |
Synthetic Metals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials.
Abstracting and indexing
Synthetic Metals is abstracted and indexed in the following services:
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Current Contents
- Engineering Index
- FIZ Karlsruhe
- INSPEC
- Metals Abstracts
- PASCAL
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- VINITI
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.266. It has published several highly cited papers (1 with ~1000 citations;[1] 5 with >600 citations; 30 with >200 citations, according to Web of Science); most of them are devoted to conductive polymers (especially polyaniline) and one to optical properties of carbon nanotubes[2] (see Kataura plot).
References
- ^ Jin-Chih Chianga, Alan G MacDiarmid (1986). "Polyaniline: Protonic acid doping of the emeraldine form to the metallic regime". Synthetic Metals. 13 (1–3): 193–205. doi:10.1016/0379-6779(86)90070-6
- ^ H. Kataura et al. (1999). "Optical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes". Synthetic Metals. 103 (1–3): 2555–2558. doi:10.1016/S0379-6779(98)00278-1