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 for 2020 is an increase of 61% 64% from last year (IF=3.585), putting STAM into the 63rd position among 314 journals in the category of Materials Science, Multidisciplinary.
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 2020, STAM is published by an international team of more than 70 experts from 14 countries including the Editor-in-Chief, Kazuhito Hashimoto, who is also the president of NIMS.
STAM is a Gold Open Access Journal that is internationally recognized as an open-science platform that provides the latest findings on world-class research for materials scientists worldwide.