Materials Research - Ibero-american Journal of Materials: judicious, fair and educative!

EDITORIAL

Materials Research – Ibero–american Journal of Materials

Judicious, fair and educative!

This issue of Materials Research contains fourteen articles selected from regular submissions in the period 2007–2008, plus six carefully selected papers among several presented at the at II Symposium of Materials Science of Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto, Brazil, in November 2007, using the same review strategy as for the regular papers. The review process for most of these papers was done via internet. Dozens of regular articles are being reviewed at present.

The good news is that our electronic submission system is operational. We seize this opportunity to invite the members of the editorial board, authors and readers of Materials Research to submit their next paper at: http://matres.submitcentral.com.br. However, as the system is new, there is room for improvement and your critical comments and suggestions will be most welcome by our team.

In the previous Editorial we showed that the time for analysis and publication of articles in Mat. Res. varies from two up to twelve months. We hope to further decrease this time with the online submission system.

We gratefully acknowledge the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq and CAPES for covering the editorial and printing costs of this issue of Mat. Res. The financial support from Department of Materials Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos (DEMa/UFSCar) for mailing expenses; the Vitreous Materials Laboratory (LaMaV/UFSCar) for fax and telephone expenses are also acknowledged. Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM) and Associação Brasileira de Polímeros (ABPol) cover the editorial assistant's salary. The secretaries of the Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica – ABC, ABPol, and ABM have helped advertising Materials Research and managing its subscriptions and financial resources.

Edgar Dutra Zanotto

Editor–in–chief

June 15, 2008

Materials Research is indexed in the Chemical Abstracts, World Ceramic Abstracts, International Pool of Glass Abstracts, Scielo, and in the powerful electronic database SCOPUS (http://www.scopus.com/scopus/home.url), which allows one to search articles by title, keyword, author name, etc., and also shows article citations. Recently we renewed our contact with the ISI staff and were told that the indexation process in underway.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  16 July 2008
• Date of issue
  June 2008