Despite the fact that we can calculate these ourselves ahead of time with 99.9% accuracy, it’s exciting for editors when the Institute for Scientific Information releases the Impact Factors every June. It might be a flawed way of measuring how important a journal is, but the Impact Factor is currently the most-used criteria (short of actually reading what is published, gasp!).

So, good news for our team this year: the Impact Factor of Advanced Materials increased to 8.379, and that of Advanced Functional Materials went up to 6.990. In other words, more people are citing, and hopefully reading, the articles, that our journals published in recent years.

If you’re interested in more details, you can read about our materials science and polymer science journals on MaterialsViews.com.