Next Materials

Aims & Scope

Next Materials is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing research of relevance to the materials community.

The journal is part of the Next family, a new suite of multidisciplinary open access journals from Elsevier spanning all branches of science.

Managed by our dedicated team of full-time inhouse Editors, Next Materials offers authors speed, consistency, innovation, flexibility and ease of submission, while providing readers in the field with seamless access.

Next Materials aims to provide an essential resource for researchers in both academia and industry, providing a platform of inspiration for the next generation of materials scientists and covering the most innovative, cutting edge and influential work of broad interest to the materials science community.

Next Materials brings together findings from nano to macro, fundamentals to application and interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary material relevant research i.e. we welcome transformative research, related to fundamental structure, synthesis and assembly, properties and performance of emerging material systems, as well as novel characterization methods to unite every key aspect of materials science, technology and engineering.

The materials of focus can be any state, any scale, any composition with scientific or technological interest, theoretical or otherwise.

Next Materials provides authors with rigorous peer review ensuring articles adhere to a high technical standard, with rapid decisions and a highly visible platform for scientists to share their research.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering and Materials Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Engineering and Materials Science, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 1,250.00 USD. Learn more.

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