Frontiers of Materials Science co-published by Higher Education Press and Springer has been accepted for indexing in several Thomson Reuters databases. This will increase the visibility and discoverability of all the articles published since 2011.

Beginning with V.5 (1) 2011, Frontiers of Materials Science is now indexed and abstracted in:

1. Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch(r))
2. Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
3. Current Contents(r)/Physical Chemical and Earth Science
4. Current Contents(r)/Engineering Computing and Technology