Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
Quoting the journal in a reference list: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ISSN 1944-8244 (print) / 1944-8252 (electronic), published by the American Chemical Society.
- Is an instance
Reporting a metric: "Journal Impact Factor, 2025 JCR edition (Clarivate)", with the value read from JCR on the date checked, never an undated figure from an aggregator page.
Editorial commentary
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (commonly shortened to ACS AMI) is a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS) covering applied research at the boundary of materials science, engineering, chemistry and the bio-related sciences. Its impact factor, quartile and CiteScore are published by the indexers each year, so any figure must be quoted with its data year; the steps for checking them are below.
What does ACS AMI stand for, and what does “ACS” mean?
“ACS” stands for the American Chemical Society, the publisher. “AMI” is the common shorthand for Applied Materials & Interfaces; it is a convenience label. Do not confuse it with sibling ACS titles such as ACS Nano, ACS Applied Nano Materials or ACS Applied Energy Materials, which are separate journals with their own metrics. “ACS material” is not a journal or a standard: searches for it usually mean material published by an ACS journal.
ISSN and publisher
- Title: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Publisher: American Chemical Society
- ISSN (print): 1944-8244
- ISSN (electronic): 1944-8252
ISSNs as recorded by Crossref for this title (see Sources).
Scope and article types
According to the ACS author guidelines, the journal publishes interdisciplinary applied research, with applications such as sensors, energy conversion and storage, catalysis and biomaterials. Papers that mainly report data or applications of existing data are generally unsuitable. Listed article types include Articles (abstract up to 300 words), invited Reviews (up to 10 journal pages), Spotlights on Applications, Perspectives (3-5 pages), Forum Articles, Proposals and Comments.
Peer review and author timelines
The guidelines state that “All manuscripts are subject to critical, anonymous peer review.” Revisions are due within 21 days, and an author may file one appeal, within one month. Preprints may be posted to ChemRxiv or arXiv. The article processing charge is not set out on the guidelines page; ACS publishes it on a separate open access pricing page.
What is the ACS AMI impact factor?
The Journal Impact Factor is a ratio: citations in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) year to items the journal published in the previous two years, divided by the number of citable items it published in those two years. The value for ACS AMI is issued by Clarivate in the Journal Citation Reports, a subscription product available through most research libraries, and it changes with each annual release. The same applies to the impact factor of ACS Applied Nano Materials: find it in JCR under that journal’s own record. For a sibling entry that shows the pattern, see ACS Applied Energy Materials Impact Factor and ACS Nano Impact Factor.
Why do websites list different numbers?
Aggregator pages for this journal show different values for what looks like the same year. Typical causes are mixing the Journal Impact Factor with CiteScore (Elsevier, built from Scopus data with a different window), quoting different data years, and not updating after each release. An undated number should not be cited. See CiteScore vs Impact Factor.
Is ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Q1?
Quartiles are assigned per subject category and per year, so there is no single answer. In JCR, open the journal’s record, choose the JCR year, and read its rank in each assigned category (for example Materials Science, Multidisciplinary); the quartile follows from rank divided by category size. Scopus gives a separate CiteScore quartile per subject area. State the source, category and year whenever you report a quartile.
Using journal metrics responsibly
A journal-level metric describes the journal, not any article or author in it. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) asks institutions and funders not to use journal metrics as a substitute for assessing individual work.
Frequently asked questions
What is ACS material?
“ACS material” is not a journal or a standard. Searches for it usually mean research published in an American Chemical Society journal such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Is ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Q1?
It depends on the subject category, the year and the source (JCR or Scopus). Open the journal’s record for the year you need and read its category rank; cite the source, category and year.
What is the impact factor of ACS Applied Nano Materials?
It is a separate journal with its own Journal Citation Reports record. Look up the value for the JCR year you need and quote it with that year.
What does ACS journal stand for?
ACS stands for the American Chemical Society, which publishes the journal.
Sources
Checked 7 November 2026.
- ACS author guidelines: https://researcher-resources.acs.org/publish/author_guidelines?coden=aamick
- Crossref journal record: https://api.crossref.org/journals/1944-8244
- DORA: https://sfdora.org/read/
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