EDITORIAL
Materials research - Ibero-American Journal of Materials
Judicious, fair and educative!
This issue of Materials Research contains articles selected from regular submissions in the period 2006 - 2007, and a number of papers that were carefully selected from hundreds presented at the 17th CBECIMAT (Brazilian Congress of Materials Science and Engineering) held in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, November 2006. The review process for all these papers was done via internet: papers submitted in electronic format were e-mailed to two referees each and the review reports were received by e-mail. All the procedures necessary to assemble the present issue were thus carried out via e-mail. Dozens of regular articles are being reviewed at present. Articles presented at the annual meeting of the Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM) in 2006 are now under evaluation.
We should emphasize once more that we do not publish conference proceedings; instead we judiciously select papers presented at different conferences, which are viewed by our team as important sources of articles for thematic or regular issues. Pre-selected conference papers are analyzed by two referees of Materials Research using the same criteria applied for the regular papers.
At present 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.
The best Brazilian journals, including Materials -Research - which are part of Scielo (www.scielo.org.br) - are undergoing a process of collective indexation by the ISI (Institute of Scientific Information), but this is expected to be a long process. Because Mat. Res. is not yet indexed in the ISI database, it is classified in the QUALIS-Capes by its several committees as shown below:
We gratefully aknowledge CNPq and CAPES for covering the editorial and printing costs of this issue of Mat. Res. The financial support from Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos - DEMa/UFSCar - for mailing expenses; from 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 - covered the editorial assistant's salary. The secretaries of the Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica ABC - ABPol and ABM have helped advertising Materials Research and with the management of its subscriptions and financial resources.
Edgar Dutra Zanotto
Editor-in-chief
Sept, 05, 2007
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
17 Oct 2007 -
Date of issue
Sept 2007
