JOM是一份技術期刊，致力于探索材料科學和工程的許多方面，涉及輕金屬、結構材料、功能材料、提取和加工、材料加工和制造等廣泛的主題領域。JOM通過報告來自世界各地的學術、工業和政府資助的工作，努力平衡實驗室和市場的利益。

JOM is a technical journal devoted to exploring the many aspects of materials science and engineering within the broad topical areas of light metals, structural materials, functional materials, extraction and processing, and materials processing and manufacturing. JOM strives to balance the interests of the laboratory and the marketplace by reporting academic, industrial, and government-sponsored work from around the world.