Journal Overview

Aims & Scope

Microstructures is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on the relationships between material microstructures and properties. Its scope encompasses structural manipulation and applications across the microscale, nanoscale, and atomic scale, covering the design, fabrication, modelling, characterization, performance testing, and application evaluation of advanced materials, such as metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, crystals, glasses, biomaterials, interfaces, and nanomaterials.

Abstracting & Indexing

Indexed in ESCI(Web of Science), Scopus, EI, CAS, and other databases

Journal Rank

JCR - Q1 (Materials Science Multidisciplinary); CiteScore - Q1 (Materials Science, miscellaneous)

Rapid Publication

Average time from submission to first decision: 7 days; average review time: 30 days.

Recognition of Reviewers

Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an OAE journal. Become a reviewer.

Impact Factor

Impact Factor: 8.5 (2025); 5-Year Impact Factor: 8.8 (2025)