Rare Metals journal switches publisher to Wiley

Rare Metals will transfer its publishing from Springer to Wiley on December 31, 2025; authors seeking details about the change or submission procedures should contact the Editorial Office at raremetals@grinm.com.

Under Editor-in-Chief Hai-Ling Tu and affiliated with the Nonferrous Metals Society of China, the hybrid journal reports a 2024 Journal Impact Factor of 11.0, a five-year IF of 8.4, and 731.8k downloads in 2024, with 46 open-access articles available.

Several special collections are open for submissions, including Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Electro/Photo-Catalysis (deadline 28 February 2026), Biomaterials and Biomedical Application (deadline 31 December 2025), and Rare Earth Catalyst for Greenhouse Gases Conversion (deadline 31 January 2026).

The latest issue is Volume 44, Issue 11 (November 2025). Recent papers cover topics from scalable pitch-derived soft carbon for high-energy lithium-ion capacitors to microstructure tailoring in TiB/Ti-55531 composites and reviews of two-dimensional fullerene networks.

Journal details include E-ISSN 1867-7185 and Print ISSN 1001-0521; it is indexed in major databases such as CAS, Scopus, Web of Science (SCIE), Google Scholar and more. Readers and authors can sign up for alerts to track new publications and updates.