Materials Horizons

ACS Nano has not been submitted for review, and it is recommended to transfer to its subsidiary journal in the second district. It feels a bit of a loss, so I finally decided to try MH.
2021.12.29 Submission
2022.1.13 Major Revision, it took less than half a month from submission to receiving comments from reviewers, and all three reviewers recognized the innovation of this paper and were knowledgeable in the field.
2022.2.13 a revision has been submitted, and it was reviewed on the second day after receiving the revised manuscript. The Lunar New Year holiday in between delayed the process. If it wasn't for my advisor's timely reminder and assistance in addressing each question, it would have been further delayed.
2022.2.28 Accept
MH has a high positioning and requires a high level of innovation. It requires a separate submission of a concept statement to explain the innovation. I hope it will continue to improve. Despite the low publication volume, it is almost surpassed by small and JMCA.

Instant Impact Factor 12.522, the final impact factor will not differ much from this, can only say that RSC really does not know how to operate, such a well-established journal has fallen like this. Let's compare and see, in the same materials field, currently JMCA has an instant impact factor of 12.32, CEJ has an instant impact factor of 13.17. In the past, the gap between Materials Horizons and JMCA was quite large, at that time it was on par with AFM, but now JMCA is surpassing it, and CEJ has already surpassed it. The key point is that even with such a small publication volume, the impact factor has not been boosted. This journal is not like JACS, Angew, NC, PNAS, which are journals that do not focus on impact factor, so the dropping impact factor will definitely lead to a lower status. Moreover, JMCA has also dropped to the second quartile, if the impact factor of Materials Horizons continues to decrease like this, it will probably drop to the second quartile in a couple of years.