STAM is one of the world’s leading materials science journals that is published with support from the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa).
The impact factor is an increase of 38% from last year—when it was 5.866—putting STAM into the 56th position among 335 journals in the field of materials and multidisciplinary science.
NIMS has supported the publication of STAM since 2004 in its role as Japan’s core institute for materials research with responsibility of disseminating scientific information globally. Empa started collaborating as a co-publisher in 2014.
As of June 2021, STAM is published by an international team of more than 70 experts from 14 countries including the Editor-in-Chief, Kazuhiko Hashimoto, who is also the president of NIMS.
STAM is a Gold Open Access Journal and is internationally recognized as an open-science platform that provides the latest findings on world-class research for materials scientists worldwide.
