Synthetic Metals

{{distinguish|Synthesis of precious metals}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Synthetic Metals

| cover = Synthetic Metals.gif

| editor = Ifor D.W. Samuel

| discipline = Materials science

| peer-reviewed =

| abbreviation = Synth. Met.

| publisher = Elsevier

| country =

| frequency = 24/year

| history = 1979–present

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 3.266

| impact-year = 2020

| website = http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/504105/description#description

| link1 = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03796779

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 =

| link2-name =

| JSTOR =

| OCLC = 5540596

| LCCN = 80648575

| CODEN =SYMEDZ

| ISSN = 0379-6779

| eISSN =

}}

Synthetic Metals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials.

Abstracting and indexing

Synthetic Metals is abstracted and indexed in the following services:

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.266. It has published several highly cited papers (1 with ~1000 citations;

{{cite journal

|author=Jin-Chih Chianga, Alan G MacDiarmid

|year=1986

|title=Polyaniline: Protonic acid doping of the emeraldine form to the metallic regime

|journal=Synthetic Metals

|volume=13 |issue=1–3

|pages=193–205

|doi=10.1016/0379-6779(86)90070-6

}} 5 with >600 citations; 30 with >200 citations, according to Web of Science); most of them are devoted to conductive polymers (especially polyaniline) and one to optical properties of carbon nanotubes

{{cite journal

|author=H. Kataura|year=1999

|title=Optical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

|url=http://staff.aist.go.jp/h-kataura/Kataura-Synth-Met-103-2555.pdf

|journal=Synthetic Metals

|volume=103 |issue=1–3

|pages=2555–2558

|doi=10.1016/S0379-6779(98)00278-1

|display-authors=etal}} (see Kataura plot).

References

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