Journal History
| 2015 | The Inaugural issue was released. Gels was published as a monthly journal. |
| 2016 | Gels was indexed in CAS—Chemical Abstracts - ACS. |
| 2017 | Gels was indexed in Polymer Library - Smithers Rapra. |
| 2019 | Gels was indexed in PubMed - NLM. Gels was indexed in Scopus - Elsevier. Gels was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
| 2020 | Gels was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
| 2021 | Gels received its first Impact Factor (4.702). |
| 2022 | Gels received an updated Impact Factor (4.432). |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2015–2024 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz |
| 2024–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Miguel A. Cerqueira for the section on Gel Applications Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Filippo Rossi for the section on Gel Processing and Engineering Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jean-Michel Guenet for the section on Gel Analysis and Characterization |
| 2022–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari for the section on Gel Chemistry and Physics |
| 2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Chuanliang Feng for the section on Gel Chemistry and Physics |
