Key Engineering Materials publishes only complete volumes on given topics, proceedings and complete special topic volumes. Thus, we are not able to publish stand-alone papers.

Key Engineering Materials covers the entire range of basic and applied aspects of the synthesis and characterization, modelling, processing and application of advanced engineering materials. The periodical is indexed in SCOPUS and monitored by all major abstract media. It is one of the largest periodical in its field. 

Indexed by Elsevier: SCOPUS www.scopus.com and Ei Compendex (CPX) www.ei.org/. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) www.csa.com, Chemical Abstracts (CA) www.cas.org, Google and Google Scholar google.com, ISI (ISTP, CPCI, Web of Science) www.isinet.com, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) www.iee.org, etc.

The periodical is online available in full text via www.scientific.net

All contributions are peer-reviewed and edited. All volumes are complete with author and keyword indexes.

Impact factor of this journal
2005: 0.224
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