Journals in Physical sciences and engineering
Journals in Physical sciences and engineering
Reports on Mathematical Physics
Reports on Mathematical Physics publishes papers in theoretical physics which present a rigorous mathematical approach to problems of quantum and classical mechanics and field theories, relativity and gravitation, statistical physics and mathematical foundations of physical theories. Papers using modern methods of functional analysis, probability theory, differential geometry, algebra and mathematical logic are preferred.- ISSN: 0034-4877
Utilities Policy
Network Systems, Critical Infrastructure, Essential ServicesUtilities Policy is a leading peer-reviewed resource for academic researchers and practitioners in the utilities policy community. The journal bridges theory and practice by disseminating original applied research that is rigorous, contemporary, and policy-relevant. The journal publishes full-length articles, insightful perspective pieces, and thematic special issues. The journal's primary objective is to advance knowledge by publishing policy-relevant papers in the public utility field, supported by a thorough and timely peer-review and publication process.Utilities Policy is international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address trends and issues within and across the utility subsectors: ElectricityNatural and renewable gasWater and wastewaterSolid wastePostal serviceCommunication... and broadbandPublic transportation, toll roads, and portsAuthors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods, consider institutional and development contexts, and conduct at the national and subnational, urban, and rural scales. Cross-sector comparative analyses of shared concerns are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome from established and emerging scholars and accomplished practitioners. Submissions to the journal should comprise policy analysis that identifies policy implications of the research and aims to inform and improve policymaking. Relevant topics include utility policy-focused works related to:Coexistence of regulatory and market institutionsIndustry structures, ownership, and governancePublic policy institutions, processes, and history Economic and environmental regulation Regulatory commissions and performanceAlternati... regulatory and governance models Restructuring, deregulation, and reregulation Monopolies, market power, and competitionMarket design and dynamics and strategic behaviorInfrastructu... financing, risk, and the cost of capitalNetwork and system modeling, operations, and integrationIntegrate... resource and resilience planning Economic efficiency and cost-benefit analysis Centralized and decentralized technologies Ratemaking and rate design processes and policiesPricing incentives and behavioral economics Supply and demand-side change driversService quality standards and accountabilityPerfor... measurement and benchmarkingClean energy and clean water transitions Sustainable systems and developmentClimate change impacts, action, and adaptation Carbon markets, pricing, and taxationEnergy and water poverty, disparity, and affordable accessConsumer participation, protection, and policies The subject and analytical approach of submissions should consider the interests of the utility policy community and implications for policymaking. Please note that Utilities Policy does not focus on energy or water resource utilization and management, technical and operational models and practices, nonutility services and other sectors of the economy, or macroeconomic and socioeconomic trends. Audience: Academic researchers, government officials, industry professionals, sector analysts, and advisors and consultants in the global utilities policy community.This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular, SDG6 (Clean water and sanitation), SDG7 (Affordable and clean energy), and SDG9 (Industry innovation and infrastructure).- ISSN: 0957-1787
Biological Conservation
Biological Conservation is a leading international journal in the discipline of conservation science. The journal publishes articles spanning a diverse range of fields that contribute to the biological, sociological, ethical and economic dimensions of conservation. The primary aim of Biological Conservation is the publication of high-quality papers that advance the science and practice of conservation, or which demonstrate the application of conservation principles and policy. Biological Conservation invites the submission of research articles, reviews (including systematic reviews and perspectives), short communications, policy perspectives, and letters to the editor dealing with all aspects of conservation science, including theoretical and empirical investigations into the consequences of human actions for the diversity, structure and function of terrestrial, aquatic or marine ecosystems. Such papers may include quantitative assessments of extinction risk, fragmentation effects, spread of invasive organisms, conservation genetics, conservation management, global change effects on biodiversity, landscape or reserve design and management, restoration ecology, or resource economics. We also welcome papers coming from social sciences including those reporting on advances in conservation politics, ethics, policy, human social structure and biodiversity, and political culture among other subjects. Biological Conservation covers interdisciplinary topics within conservation biology and also provides practical applications of conservation research for land/resource managers and policy makers. We publish articles and thematic special issues that have a global relevance in terms of the topics or issues addressed, and thus demonstrate applications of conservation science and management beyond the specific system or species studied. Biological Conservation is an affiliate publication of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). SCB members can obtain a personal subscription to this journal through the Society. Authors are also welcome to submit to the Journal's open access companion title, Global Ecology and Conservation, which covers all sub-disciplines of ecological and conservation science.- ISSN: 0006-3207
Journal of Environmental Sciences
Journal of Environmental Sciences is an international peer-reviewed journal established in 1989. It is sponsored by the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it is jointly published by Elsevier and Science Press. It aims to foster interdisciplinary communication and promote understanding of significant environmental issues. The journal seeks to publish significant and novel research on the fate and behaviour of emerging contaminants, human impact on the environment, human exposure to environmental contaminants and their health effects, and environmental remediation and management. Original research articles, critical reviews, highlights, and perspectives of high quality are published both in print and online.Subjects Aquatic environment Atmospheric environment Biomonitoring and biomarkers Carbon-neutrality technology Emerging contaminants Environmental analysis and methods Environmental biology Environmental chemistry Environmental catalysis and nanomaterials Environmental health and toxicology Environmental microbiology Environmental nanotechnology Environmental remediation and management Terrestrial environmentAbstracti... journal is abstracted and indexed by SCI, EI, CC (ISI), CA (USA), PA (USA), Biosis(USA), BA(USA), Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Germany), NAL Serials(USA), ASTA(USA), IRSD(Japan), WCS of EST(Liechtenstein), Geo Abstracts(UK) and Chinese Sci. and Tech. Journal Abstracts(China) etc.- ISSN: 1001-0742
Cement and Concrete Research
The aim of Cement and Concrete Research is to publish the best research on the materials science and engineering of cement, cement composites, mortars, concrete and other allied materials that incorporate cement or other mineral binders. In doing so, the journal will focus on reporting major results of research on the properties and performance of cementitious materials; novel experimental techniques; the latest analytical and modelling methods; the examination and the diagnosis of real cement and concrete structures; and the potential for improved materials. The fields which the journal aims to cover are:• Processing: Cement manufacture, admixtures, mixing, rheology and hydration. While the majority of articles will be concerned with Portland cements, we encourage articles on other mineral binders, such as alumino-silicates (often referred to as geopolymers), calcium aluminates, calcium sulfoaluminates, magnesia-based cements, as well as in a more limited way on lime and/or gypsum-based materials. • Chemical, microstructural and structural characterization of the unhydrated components and of hydrated systems including: the chemistry (structure, thermodynamics and kinetics), crystal structure, pore structure of cementitious materials, characterization techniques, and the modelling on atomistic, microstructural and structural levels. • The properties and modelling of cement and concrete, including: fundamental physical properties in both fluid and hardened state; transport, mechanical and other properties; the processes of degradation of cementitious materials; and the modelling of properties and degradation processes, as a means of predicting short-term and long-term performance, of relating a material's structure to its properties and of designing materials of improved performance, in particular with lower environmental impact. Papers dealing with corrosion will be considered provided their clearly relate to process fundamentally affected by the interplay between steel reactivity and a surrounding cementitious material. • Applications for cement, mortar and concrete keeping a clear focus on fundamental questions of materials science and engineering focus will be welcome on topics including: concrete technology, rheology control, fiber reinforcement, waste management, recycling, life cycle analysis, novel concretes and digital fabrication.The journal's principal publications are original articles containing new information, major reviews and selected papers from important conferences. Discussion of published material and rapid communications will form part of the journal where appropriate. The journal will focus on papers with a broad interest, based upon their subject area, the quality of the research, the novelty of the results and the potential for assimilation of the findings.Cement and Concrete Research is the companion title to the open access journal Cement.- ISSN: 0008-8846
Microelectronic Engineering
Nanotechnology and Processing — Electronics, photonics, MEMS and Life Sciences Affiliated with iMNEsMicroelectronic Engineering is the premier journal focused on the fabrication and characterization of micro/nano-electroni... materials, devices and circuits (including novel electronic nanomaterials), as well as the understanding of their working mechanisms, performance, yield, variability, stability, and reliability. The journal also focuses on the techniques that make possible the fabrication and characterization of such devices and circuits, and on the materials involved in them. Occasionally, outstanding papers on simulation of materials properties, device figures-of-merit or compact modeling of circuits and systems may be accepted. The following topics are of special interest:DevicesPhot... and optoelectronic devices (including, sensors, actuators, phototransistors)Tra... (including ultra-scaled, thin film, organic, ferroelectric)Resist... switching devices (memristors, RRAM, PCRAM, FeRAM, MRAM)Magnetic and spintronic devicesMEMS and NEMS (including power, RF, magnetic, organic)Flexible electronic devices (including wearable, printed, paper)Devices for energy harvesting (piezoelectric, flexoelectric, photovoltaic, solar cells)Bioelectronic devices (molecular detection, biomimetic, diagnosis)Device-lev... simulations (including variability and reliability)Material... bandgap semiconductorsDielec... (low K and high K)Two-dimensional (2D) Materials and related transferring techniquesNanotubes, nanowires, and other nanomaterials and nanostrctures for device fabricationInterconn... metallization and barrier materialsNew Resist MaterialsSilicon on insulatorsPolymers and flexible substrates, including biocompatible materialsAtomistic simulations of materials propertiesFabricatio... and characterization processesThin films deposition techniques (CVD, ALD, evaporation, sputtering, MBE, plasma)Lithography (including optical, EUV, electron beam, nanoimpring, particle-assisted, mask less, X-ray optical methods, emerging methods and limits, as well as resists)Pattern transfer (including ion, plasma and wet transfer, as well as transfer of 2D materials)Integratio... processes (including inkjet printing, 3D printing, 3D integration)Top-down and bottom-up self-assembly processesAnnealing and its effect in the materials (including crystallization, wrinkling, de-wetting)Nanometro... (TEM, SEM, EDX, EELS, STM, AFM and related setups)Circuits and applicationsSensing and actuation, including bio-compatible applicationsSignal souring and transferLogic operations and data processingElectronic memories and information storageArtificial neural networks and neuromorphic computingCompact modeling of electronic circuitsQuantum computingFive different types of articles are considered:Research articles that report regular original research that produces significant advancement.Accelera... Publications (Letters) that feature exciting research breakthroughs.Review Articles that inform readers of the latest research and advances in a topic within the broad field of microelectronic engineering. This includes roadmaps and guides proposing the recommended methods in a specific field.Short / Technical notes intended for original limited investigations or short description of original industrial or industrially-related research and development workNews and Opinions that comment on topical issues or express views on the developments in related fields, or comment on previously published work- ISSN: 0167-9317
Applied Thermal Engineering
Processes. Technologies. Systems. Production. Storage. UtilizationApplied Thermal Engineering disseminates novel research related to the design, development and demonstration of components, devices, equipment, technologies, systems and, in general, solutions involving thermal processes for the production, storage, utilization, management and conservation of energy, with a focus on engineering application. It is noted that papers concerned with the development and/or characterization of materials are only within scope if they include content relating to the implications of the employment of these materials in engineering applications, e.g., by considering their operation and/or performance within components, devices, equipment, technologies and/or wider thermal systems. Research relating to the use of energy for thermal management in diverse applications, from electrical and electronic components to buildings and wider energy systems, is also considered to be within scope if thermal management and/or other thermal application elements are included.The journal publishes high-quality and high-impact Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Vision Articles, Invited Articles, Rapid Communication Articles and Letters to the Editor on cutting-edge innovations in research, and recent advances or issues of interest to the thermal engineering community. Review papers are generally by invitation, however, prospective authors are welcome to submit review paper proposals to the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor Dr. Kai Wang by using this form. Further details regarding article types can be found in the Guide-for-Authors here.Applied Thermal Engineering encourages the publication of special issues. Special issue organisers are invited to complete and submit a dedicated proposal form to the Editor-in-Chief and Journal Development Editors (see the Editorial Board page) for review and approval at the Board level. The form can be downloaded here for themed special issues and here for conference special issues.Example topics of interest to Applied Thermal Engineering include:Components, devices and equipment such as heat exchangers, heat pipes, energy storage devices, power plants, heat pumps and cooling or refrigeration plants, combined heat and power plants and other polygeneration systems, advanced or alternative cycles, combustion as a thermal energy process and a way to transfer this energy to or within components or systems (such as, for example, boilers, furnaces, internal combustion engines or gas turbines), heat transfer enhancement or suppression as applied to the above, and other unit operations involving thermal engineering processes.Renewable and clean-energy technologies such as solar-thermal or hybrid technologies or systems, the integration of renewable energy within conventional energy processes and systems, energy storage options, thermal management of fuel cells and batteries, and other alternative applied solutions for improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions through thermal engineering.Componen... through to system design covering energy production, storage and utilization, management and conservation in industrial applications, as well as residential or commercial buildings, including solutions to improve thermal performance via passive design techniques, amongst other.Economic assessments of thermal engineering projects, and of the financial performance and implications of component, equipment, technology and system design, implementation and operation.- ISSN: 1359-4311
Progress in Planning
Progress in Planning is a multidisciplinary journal of research monographs with a global readership. It offers an outlet for extended papers in the field of planning. Each issue comprises a single monograph of between 20,000 and 35,000 words. The journal website also offers the opportunity to upload additional material including videos and graphical illustrations. We welcome papers on any aspect of spatial and environmental planning that make a contribution to planning scholarship. The journal is fully peer reviewed. We aim to keep the time between submission and publication as short as possible given the requirements of rigorous peer review.- ISSN: 0305-9006
Geothermics
International Journal of Geothermal Research and its ApplicationsGeotherm... is an international journal devoted to the research and development of geothermal energy. The International Board of Editors of Geothermics, which comprises specialists in the various aspects of geothermal resources, exploration and development, guarantees a balanced, comprehensive view of scientific and technological developments in this promising energy field.It promulgates the state of the art and science of geothermal energy, its exploration and exploitation through a regular exchange of information from all parts of the world. The journal publishes articles dealing with applied research, exploration techniques and all aspects of utilizing geothermal resources. Geothermics serves as the scientific house, or exchange medium, through which the growing community of geothermal specialists can provide and receive information.This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy) and SDG 13 (Climate Action)- ISSN: 0375-6505
Process Biochemistry
Process Biochemistry is an application-orientat... research journal devoted to reporting advances with originality and novelty, in the science and technology of the processes involving bioactive molecules and living organisms. These processes concern the production of useful metabolites or materials, or the removal of toxic compounds using tools and methods of current biology and engineering. Its main areas of interest include novel bioprocesses and enabling technologies (such as nanobiotechnology, tissue engineering, directed evolution, metabolic engineering, systems biology, and synthetic biology) applicable in food (nutraceutical), healthcare (medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic), energy (biofuels), environmental, and biorefinery industries and their underlying biological and engineering principles.Main topics covered include, with most of possible aspects and domains of application: • Fermentation, biochemical and bioreactor engineering • Biotechnology processes and their life science aspects • Biocatalysis, enzyme engineering and biotransformation • Downstream processing • Modeling, optimization and control techniques.Particula... aspects related to the processes, raw materials and products, also include: • Quantitative microbial physiology, stress response, signal transduction • Genetic engineering and metabolic engineering • Proteomics, functional genomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics • Chiral compounds production, cell free protein system, high-throughput screening, in-vivo/in-vitro evolution, enzyme immobilization, enzyme reaction in non-aqueous media • Mass transfer, mixing, scale-up and scale-down, bioprocess monitoring, bio-manufacturing • Cell, tissue and antibody engineering: animal and plant cells/tissues, algae, micro-algae, extremophile, antibody screening and production • Environmental biotechnology: biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, biosorption and bioaccumulation • Bio-commodity engineering: biomass, bio-refinery, bio-energy • Bioseparation, purification, protein refolding. • Other new bioprocess and bioreactor related topics especially on application to healthcare sectors- ISSN: 1359-5113
