Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A university library's collection-development committee cites Advanced Materials' JIF, alongside its JCR quartile and category rank, when comparing subscription value across materials-science titles.
- Is an instance
A bibliometrics office reports Advanced Materials' JIF as one data point in a departmental research-output review, alongside CiteScore and category-normalized citation counts, rather than as the sole indicator.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Using Advanced Materials' JIF to judge the quality or rigor of a specific paper published in the journal.
- Not an instance
Comparing Advanced Materials' JIF directly against a journal in an unrelated field (e.g. a humanities journal) as if the numbers were on the same scale.
Editorial commentary
Advanced Materials is a materials-science journal published by Wiley-VCH, established in 1988 as a supplement to Angewandte Chemie before becoming an independent title in 1989. Like any Clarivate-indexed journal, it receives an annual Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) — the same two-year, citations-over-citable-items calculation used for every journal in the JIF system. See the general Journal Impact Factor entry for how the metric itself is computed and why it should not be used to judge individual articles or authors.
Current reported figure
Wikipedia’s infobox for the journal, sourced to JCR, lists Advanced Materials’ Impact Factor at 26.8 for the 2024 JCR data year (the release published in 2025). Aggregator trackers (citefactor.org, resurchify.com, wos-journal.info) report figures broadly consistent with this range, placing the journal firmly in the high-20s among general materials-science titles. CASRAI has not independently confirmed the exact figure against a live jcr.clarivate.com subscription this session; treat the 26.8 figure as reported/secondary-source-corroborated rather than primary-verified, and confirm the current-year number directly with Clarivate or your institution’s JCR access before citing it in a formal document.
Where to verify it yourself
- Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (jcr.clarivate.com) — the authoritative source; requires an institutional subscription.
- Wiley’s own journal page for Advanced Materials (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) — publisher-provided journal information, though publishers do not always surface the current JIF prominently on the public page.
- Independent trackers (citefactor.org, resurchify.com, wos-journal.info and similar sites) republish JCR-derived figures and are useful for a quick check, but can disagree with each other and lag the official release — use them as a starting point, not a citable source of record.
See the companion guide How to Look Up a Journal’s Impact Factor (and What It Actually Tells You) for the general lookup process.
Journal profile
- Publisher: Wiley-VCH
- Scope: Materials science broadly, spanning chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials.
- First published: 1988 (as a supplement to Angewandte Chemie); independent from 1989
- ISSN: 0935-9648 (print), 1521-4095 (online)
- Publication model: Weekly, 52 issues per year (since 2018); hybrid open access
- JCR category: Chemistry, Multidisciplinary / Materials Science, Multidisciplinary / Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (Q1 in recent JCR releases per the trackers cited above)
Why the exact number keeps shifting
Three things routinely change a journal’s reported JIF year to year, and Advanced Materials is not an exception: (1) Clarivate releases a new JCR every June, covering a new two-year citation window, so last year’s figure is never the current one; (2) aggregator sites update on their own schedules and sometimes retain a stale figure past a new release; (3) since the 2023 JCR release, JIFs are assigned to all Web of Science Core Collection journals rather than only Science/Social Science Citation Index titles, which changed how some adjacent materials-science journals entered comparison — worth knowing if you’re benchmarking Advanced Materials against a sibling Wiley title such as Advanced Functional Materials or Advanced Energy Materials.
Frequently asked questions
What is Advanced Materials’ current Impact Factor?
Wikipedia’s JCR-sourced infobox places it at 26.8 for the 2024 JCR data year (2025 release); confirm the live figure against Clarivate’s JCR directly for anything formal, since secondary trackers can show some disagreement.
Is Advanced Materials’ Impact Factor a good way to judge a specific paper?
No. Its JIF measures journal-level average citedness, not the quality of any individual article or author. Bodies including DORA specifically caution against using any journal-level metric, including Advanced Materials’, as a proxy for an individual researcher’s contribution.
How does Advanced Materials’ JIF compare to CiteScore?
JIF (Clarivate, two-year citation window, JCR-indexed journals only) and CiteScore (Elsevier/Scopus, four-year window, broader journal coverage) are computed differently and will not match for the same journal. See CiteScore vs Impact Factor for the full comparison.
Related terms
- Journal Impact Factor (JIF) — the general metric definition
- CiteScore — Elsevier’s competing journal-metric
- DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) — the responsible-metrics framework cautioning against JIF misuse
- Impact Factor vs h-index
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