Soft Matter is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the science of soft matter.

It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the editor-in-chief is Darrin Pochan (University of Delaware, USA).

The journal was established in 2005.

Initially it was published monthly, but as submissions increased it switched to 24 issues a year in 2009[1] and to 48 issues a year in 2012.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.046.