Synthetic Metals

Not to be confused with Synthesis of precious metals.

Synthetic Metals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials.

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 · W&L
CODEN	SYMEDZ
ISSN	0379-6779
LCCN	80648575
OCLC no.	5540596
Links
Journal homepage Online access

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).