Acta Materialia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published twenty times per year by Elsevier on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc.

The journal covers research on all aspects of materials science and publishes original papers and commissioned reviews called Overviews.

Since 1956, it was published by Pergamon Press, with the imprint being retained for some time after the acquisition by Elsevier.

It incorporates Nanostructured Materials that was published independently from 1992 to 1999.

Scripta Materialia was established in 1967 as a companion journal, publishing rapid communications as well as opinion articles called Viewpoints.