EDITORIAL
Materials Research - Ibero-american Journal of Materials
Judicious, fair and educative!
This 45th issue of Materials Research contains 24 original articles, and about 100 are under review at present. Materials Research is also published in electronic format at Scielo (www.scielo.br/mr).
About 60% of the submitted articles are accepted and published. The time for publication of the accepted articles varies from 2 to 12 months, whereas the time for rejection varies from 1 to 6 months. A fast analysis is obviously important for the authors and for the periodical itself because it increases its impact factor. After approximately 12 years of analysis, it is now clear to us that the rate limiting step is the referees' response time. Hence we take this opportunity to cordially ask our authors and readers (potential reviewers) to respond swiftly to our demands.
At present Materials Research is indexed by the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE), which includes the Web of Science, ISI Alerting Service and Materials Science Citation Index (MSCI), Chemical Abstracts, World Ceramic Abstracts, International Pool of Glass Abstracts, Scopus and Scielo.
We gratefully acknowledge the Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia, Materiais e Mineração(ABM)for covering most of the editorial and printing costs of this issue. We also thank the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq and CAPES for their continuous support. The help from the 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, Materiais e Mineração (ABM) and Associação Brasileira de Polímeros (ABPol) cover the editorial assistant's salary. Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica - ABC, ABPol, and ABM have also helped advertising Materials Research and managing its subscriptions and financial resources.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
19 Jan 2010 -
Date of issue
2009
