Soft Matter (journal)

Soft Matter is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the science of soft matter. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the editor-in-chief is Darrin Pochan (University of Delaware, USA).

Soft Matter

Discipline	Materials science
Language	English
Edited by	Alfred Crosby
Publication details
History	2005–present
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Weekly
Impact factor	3.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Soft Matter
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	SMOABF
ISSN	1744-683X (print) 1744-6848 (web)
LCCN	2005252381
OCLC no.	60579554
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

The journal was established in 2005. Initially it was published monthly, but as submissions increased it switched to 24 issues a year in 2009^[1] and to 48 issues a year in 2012.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences^[2]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[3]
• Science Citation Index^[2]
• Scopus^[4]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.046.^[5]

See also

• List of scientific journals in chemistry