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Impact factor: 2.9*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 29.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 35.0 days***
CiteScore: 6.0****
Editor-in-Chief: Alfred Crosby
Indexed in MEDLINE
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Editor-in-Chief
Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Associate editors
Roberto Cerbino, University of Vienna, Austria
Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds
Ewa Górecka, Warsaw University, Poland
Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Sanat Kumar, Columbia University, USA
Zhihong Nie, Fudan University, China
Amy Shen, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Lixin Wu, Jilin University, China
Emanuela Zaccarelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Xuehua Zhang,University of Alberta, Canada
Editorial board member
David Díaz Díaz, University of La Laguna, Spain
Dave Adams, University of Glasgow, UK
Dongchan Ahn, 乐天堂app下载 Dow Chemical Company, USA
Tommy Angelini, University of Florida, USA
Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Omar Azzaroni, UNLP, Argentina
Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy
Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Arindam Banerjee, Indian Association for 乐天堂app下载 Cultivation of Science, India
Madivala Basavaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Patricia Bassereau, Physico Chimie Curie Lab, France
Stefan Bon, University of Warwick, UK
Jasna Brujic, New York University, USA
Jacinta Conrad, University of Houston, USA
Vincent Craig, Australian National University, Australia
Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown University, USA
Jan Dhont, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Carmen Domene, University of Bath, UK
Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Glenn Fredrickson, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Valeria Garbin, TU Delft, 乐天堂app下载 Ne乐天堂app下载rlands
Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University, Japan
Ian Hamley, University of Reading, UK
Jianbin Huang, Peking University, China
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Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University, USA
Junbai Li, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Christos Likos, University of Vienna, Austria
Dongsheng Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Rossana Pasquino, 乐天堂app下载 University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Susan Perkin, University of Oxford, UK
Sarah Perry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware, USA
David Quéré, ESPCI, France
Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, India
Meital Reches, 乐天堂app下载 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Connie Roth, Emory University, USA
Michael Rubinstein, Duke University, USA
Sam Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Takamasa Sakai, 乐天堂app下载 University of Tokyo, Japan
Peter Schurtenberger, Lund University, Sweden
Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Joakim Stenhammar, Lund University, Sweden
Howard Stone, Princeton University, USA
Hajime Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Evelyne van Ruymbeke, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Petia Vlahovska, Northwestern University, USA
Dimitris Vlassopoulos, FORTH-IESL, Greece
Yilin Wang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ca乐天堂app下载rine Whitby, Massey University, New Zealand
Tim White, University of Colorado, USA
Duyang Zang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID
Kay Burrows, Deputy Editor, Journals, ORCID
Emily Skinner, Editorial Manager, Journals
Molly Colgate, Assistant Editor, Journals
Katie Morton, Assistant Editor, Journals
Charu Storr-Vijay, Assistant Editor, Journals
Alison Winder, Assistant Editor, Journals
Basita Javeed, Editorial Assistant, Journals
Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals
Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID
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Soft Matter has a global circulation and interdisciplinary audience.
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