2025

June

18 June: In the 2024 Journal Citation Report, Microstructures received its first Impact Factor of 9.0, ranking Q1 in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary (70/460).

January

16 January: Microstructures announced 2024 Best Paper, Editor, Youth Scholar, and Reviewer Awards.

16 January: The 2nd International Conference on Microstructures of Materials & Editorial Board Meeting of Microstructures（ICMM2025） was held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2 – 4 January 2025.

2024

August

29 August: Microstructures opened a Student Best Paper Award.

June

6 June: Microstructures was included in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

January

25 January: Microstructures announced 2023 Best Paper Awards, Best Reviewer Awards, Best Editor Award & Best Youth Scholar Award.

4 January: The 1st International Conference on Material Microstructure & Microstructures Editorial Board Meeting (ICMM 2024) was held at Hainan University from 4 – 6 January, 2024.

2023

November

23 November: Microstructures has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus.

April

25 April: Microstructures was indexed in J-Gate database.

19 April: Microstructures was included in Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases.

February

2 February: Microstructures announced 2022 Best Paper Awards, Best Reviewer Awards, Best Editor Award & Best Youth Scholar Award.

2022

December

14 December: Microstructures sponsored three awards at the conference International Symposium Advanced Materials and Sustainable Technologies 2022 (AM&ST 22).

2 December: Microstructures became a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

August

31 August: Microstructures was indexed in Dimensions.

15 August: Microstructures was indexed in Lens.

May

23 May: The inaugural webinar of Microstructures was officially published: Deformation Twinning in Hexagonal Metals.

10 May: Microstructures reached cooperation with ResearchGate.

2021

November

2 November: Microstructures obtained the ISSN 2770-2995 (Online).

September

30 September: The inaugural issue of Microstructures was officially published: Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021).

May

10 May: Microstructures Journal was officially released online. Professor Shujun Zhang from the University of Wollongong, Australia, was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief, with Professors Jun Chen and Xiaozhou Liao serving as the Executive Editors.