EDITORIAL
Materials Research - Ibero-American Journal of Materials: "judicious and educative"
I am very pleased to inform the recent publication by the Journal of Citation Reports of the Impact Factor 2010, corresponding to the evaluation period 2008 - 2009. This is the first evaluation of Materials Research since its indexation in the ISI database in 2008; and its IF is 0.429. This can be considered an excellent value for a newly indexed journal! I would like to thank all the authors and reviewers for the good quality articles that they publish or analyze for Materials Research, which made this achievement possible.
In the last Editorial I had informed our readers about our new routine to publish in advance in the SciELO page (www.scielo.br/mr) ahead-of-print articles as soon as they were finished by our editorial office. We also started the use of the DOI (digital object identifier) number in the articles, already available in the electronic Abstracts posted in SciELO. I would like then to remind the authors that early dissemination of their work will certainly help to increase both their visibility and the international recognition of Materials Research.
In this same context, I also would like to inform that we have initiated a newsletter service by e-mail, linking the published articles with the SciELO page where the complete text can be found.
The present issue of Materials Research contains 22 regular contributions, covering a broad range of materials such as, ceramics, glasses, polymers, metals, composites and biomaterials, which are, in many cases evaluated within an interdisciplinary perspective.
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, Scopus and SciELO.
I would like to thank Luciana Zanotto, editorial assistant, for the continuous, efficient and essential work in dealing with paper processing, from submission to final editing. I also would like to acknowledge the continuous support from the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq and CAPES, the Department of Materials Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos (DEMa/UFSCar) and the funding associations, Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia, Materiais e Mineração (ABM), Associação Brasileira de Polímeros (ABPol) and Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica (ABC).
Walter José Botta Filho
Editor-in-chief
September, 2011
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
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Date of issue
Sept 2011
