Impact
IAAM Article Impact (AII)
How the score is built
AII = 0.60C + 0.15E + 0.15T + 0.10A
The score runs from 0 to 100 and describes one article. We measure articles, not journals: a single number attached to a title tells you nothing about the paper in front of you, and it hands credit to the venue rather than to the people who did the work.
Citation Impact · 60%
How often the work is cited, adjusted for field and age
Citations remain the strongest signal that other researchers have built on a piece of work. Adjusting for field and age keeps a two-year-old paper in a small speciality comparable with an older one in a crowded field.
Research Engagement · 15%
Views, downloads and saves by researchers
Reading precedes citing, and much of it never turns into a citation. Engagement captures the readers who used the work without publishing a paper of their own about it.
Research Translation · 15%
Use in patents, standards, policy documents and industry
Materials research earns much of its value outside the literature. Translation counts the moments a paper shows up in a patent, a standard, a regulatory submission or an industrial specification.
Academic Attention · 10%
Mentions in teaching, news, scholarly blogs and social media
The smallest weight, deliberately. Attention shows a paper reaching students, journalists and the wider public, but it is the noisiest signal of the four.
Current status
In developmentAII scoring is not live yet. No article in Advanced Materials Letters or Advanced Materials Proceedings currently carries a score, and we would rather show nothing than show a number we cannot stand behind.
When scoring launches, every article page will display its own AII alongside the four components that produced it, so readers can see how the score was reached.
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