Synthetic Metals

Not to be confused with Synthesis of precious metals.

Synthetic Metals

Discipline	Materials science
Language	English
Edited by	Ifor D.W. Samuel
Publication details
History	1979–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	24/year
Impact factor	3.266 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Synth. Met.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	SYMEDZ
ISSN	0379-6779
LCCN	80648575
OCLC no.	5540596
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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

1. 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.
2. H. Kataura; et al. (1999). "Optical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes" (PDF). Synthetic Metals. 103 (1–3): 2555–2558. doi:10.1016/S0379-6779(98)00278-1.

External links

• Official website