Soft Matter (journal)

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Soft Matter

| cover = CoverIssueSoftMatter.jpg

| discipline = Materials science

| abbreviation = Soft Matter

| website = http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/sm/index.asp

| link2 = http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/JournalIssues/SM#issues

| link2-name = Online archive

| publisher = Royal Society of Chemistry

| country = United Kingdom

| history = 2005–present

| frequency = Weekly

| impact = 3.4

| impact-year = 2022

| editor = Alfred Crosby

| ISSN = 1744-683X

| eISSN = 1744-6848

| CODEN =SMOABF

| OCLC = 60579554

| LCCN = 2005252381

}}

Soft Matter is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the science of soft matter. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the editor-in-chief is Darrin Pochan (University of Delaware, USA).

The journal was established in 2005. Initially it was published monthly, but as submissions increased it switched to 24 issues a year in 2009{{cite journal |last1=Gibb |first1=K |last2=Steiner |first2=U |year=2009 |title= Five years on |journal=Soft Matter|volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=20–22 |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry |doi=10.1039/B820595G|bibcode = 2009SMat....5...20. }} and to 48 issues a year in 2012.