Journal of Nuclear Materials
Last updated ISSN 0022-3115
Journal of Nuclear Materials is published by Elsevier BV in materials science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,640.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Nuclear Materials concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Nuclear Materials and Properties
- Fusion materials and technologies
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Nuclear materials and radiation effects
- Radioactive element chemistry and processing
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
- Ion-surface interactions and analysis
- Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
- High Temperature Alloys and Creep
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-3115, 1873-4820 |
| Subject area | Materials Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,640 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 33,781 |
| Publishing since | 1959 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-nuclear-materia |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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