Journals in Physical sciences and engineering
Journals in Physical sciences and engineering
Materials Science and Engineering: B
Materials Science and Engineering B (MSEB) is a long-standing peer-reviewed journal, providing a leading international platform for research across diverse disciplines in the materials’ world. We encourage high-quality original research and timely review submissions that offer insights into the synthesis, processing, characterisation, modelling, predictions, and understanding of functional materials and their respective applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:Nano materials and nanotechnologyVan der Waals materials and heterostructuresTopo... materialsMeta-materi... and moiré materialsMagnetic and correlated materialsCeramic materials Membranes and filmsEnergy and catalysis applicationsEnvironm... applicationsCharacte... techniquesSynthesis and processingTheoretica... modelling and predictionsMachine learning materials With its interdisciplinary approach, our journal offers a unique opportunity to publish outstanding research, connecting scientists, fostering collaboration, and advancing our knowledge in materials science and engineering.- ISSN: 0921-5107
Computers & Geosciences
Computers & Geosciences publishes original, high-impact research at the interface between computing/informatic... and the geosciences. Submissions must make a substantive contribution in both dimensions: (1) an innovative computational, informatics, or software element, and (2) a clear geoscientific contribution addressing a scientific problem of broad interest to the geoscience community.Manuscript... are suitable for the journal only when the computational/inform... component is central to the work and advances the state of the art beyond routine implementation, straightforward application, or incremental adaptation of existing methods. It is expected that code is provided for all scientific research articles.Relevant computational/inform... contributions include, but are not limited to: novel algorithms; computational methods; scientific software; data models; scientific databases and retrieval systems; machine learning and artificial intelligence; inversion and data assimilation frameworks; uncertainty quantification workflows; visualization and human-computer interaction for geoscientific analysis; high-performance, parallel, cloud, or distributed computing; reproducible research infrastructures; and interoperable digital frameworks for geoscientific data and modelling.Relevant geoscientific domains include: geology; geophysics; geochemistry; geomorphology; sedimentology; stratigraphy; palaeontology; tectonics and structural geology; seismology; volcanology; hydrology; hydrogeology; and Earth-system science. Manuscripts centered primarily on generic environmental engineering, routine GIS applications, signal processing, agriculture, ecology, or other topics outside the core geosciences are normally outside the journal’s scope unless the geoscientific contribution is explicit, substantial, and of clear interest to the readership.Code, software, data, and reproducibility requirementsFor any manuscript presenting software, code, workflows, trained models, computational pipelines, or implementation details essential to the results, public access to the corresponding repository is mandatory at submission and required for acceptance. A manuscript will not be accepted for review without a GitHub repository or equivalent public repository that is properly documented and enables evaluation, reuse, and long-term utility to the community.there needs to be a link to the repository in the manuscript and at a minimum, the repository must include:a clear license;a ReadMe file in English with basic usage and installation instructions;documen... of dependencies and computational requirements;suffici... material to reproduce the main results in the paper, or a clear explanation of any justified limitations if data cannot be shared, a dummy model or a synthetic dataset for test cases should be providedhow-to files or tutorials for typical use cases;a user guide describing inputs, outputs, options, and expected behaviour; and for security reasons, a single compacted file is not accepted (e.g. .zip, .rar, .7z)any comments in the code must be in EnglishRepositories that are incomplete, poorly documented, inaccessible, private at the review or acceptance stage, or lacking reproducible examples are grounds for rejection. Manuscripts describing software that is not open source are normally desk rejected.Computers & Geosciences will not consider manuscripts that fall into any of the following categories:geoscienc... studies with no genuine computational or informatics innovation;computer science or informatics papers with no clear and substantive geoscientific contribution;routine application of established methods, software, machine learning models, GIS workflows, or visualization tools to a case study;incremental code implementations of already published methods without a clear methodological or software advance;manuscripts focused mainly on engineering design, operational management, consultancy-style case studies, or site-specific technical problem solving rather than geoscientific insight of broader relevance;papers in which the computational element is peripheral, cosmetic, or limited to software packaging or interface development;purely methodological developments (e.g. geophysics, hydrology) purely analytical developments unless they have significant implications on computational geoscientific problemspure case studies and application examples less they have significant implications on computational geoscientific problemsGUI papers unless the interface itself solves a significant, non-trivial scientific-computing problem;benchmark or comparison papers lacking novelty, reproducibility, or transferable insight;papers whose results cannot be independently evaluated because code, workflow details, trained models, key parameters, or supporting data are unavailable; andmanuscripts generated around black-box tools or proprietary workflows with insufficient transparency for scientific scrutiny.Submissions should make clear, from the title, abstract, and introduction onward, what is new computationally, what is new geoscientifically, and why both matter.Manuscripts better aligned with applied implementation, software deployment, or practical case studies may be more suitable for the companion journal Applied Computing & Geosciences.- ISSN: 0098-3004
Journal of African Earth Sciences
The Journal of African Earth Sciences sees itself as the prime international interdisciplinary geological journal for all aspects of the Earth Sciences about the African plate. Papers dealing with peripheral areas are welcome if they demonstrate a tight link with Africa.The Journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed scientific papers. It is devoted primarily to research papers but short communications relating to new developments of broad interest, reviews and book reviews will also be considered. Papers must have international appeal and should present work of more regional than local significance and dealing with well identified and justified scientific questions. Specialised technical papers, analytical or exploration reports must be avoided. Papers on applied geology should preferably be linked to such core disciplines and must be addressed to a more general geoscientific audience.The journal is closely affiliated with the Geological Society of AfricaThis journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 13 (Climate Action)- ISSN: 1464-343X
Ultramicroscopy
An international journal affiliated with MSA, ISEM, SCANDEM, NVEM, SGOEM, SIME-SM, DGE, MSC, ASEM and MSSA, committed to the advancement of new methods, tools and theories in microscopyUltramicro... is an established journal that provides a forum for the publication of original research papers, invited reviews and rapid communications. The scope of Ultramicroscopy is to describe advances in instrumentation, methods and theory related to all modes of microscopical imaging, diffraction and spectroscopy in the life and physical sciences.Electron MicroscopyInstrument... developmentImaging and scattering theoryComputational methodsImage processing and analysisAuthors are encouraged to contact the Editor in Chief directly at angus.kirkland@mater... to discuss Review proposals in the first instance possible, as these are by invitation only.- ISSN: 0304-3991
Discrete Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics.The research areas covered by Discrete Mathematics include graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, discrete probability, and parts of cryptography.Discret... Mathematics generally does not include research on dynamical systems, differential equations, or discrete Laplacian operators within its scope. It also does not publish articles that are principally focused on linear algebra, abstract algebraic structures, or fuzzy sets unless they are highly related to one of the main areas of interest. Also, papers focused primarily on applied problems or experimental results fall outside our scope.Items in the journal include research articles (Contributions or Notes, depending on length) and survey/expository articles (Perspectives). Efforts are made to process the submission of Notes (short articles) quickly. The Perspectives section features expository articles accessible to a broad audience that cast new light or present unifying points of view on well-known or insufficiently-known topics.Discrete Mathematics also publishes occasional Special Issues containing selected papers. Such issues are fully refereed and adhere to the normal high standards of the journal.This journal has an Open Archive. All published items, including research articles, have unrestricted access and will remain permanently free to read and download 48 months after publication. All papers in the Archive are subject to Elsevier's user license.- ISSN: 0012-365X
Mechanics of Materials
Forum for original scientific research on the flow, fracture, and general constitutive behavior of advanced technological and natural materialsMechanics of Materials, a journal in the field of solid mechanics and materials, aims to disseminate research work in the broad spectrum of engineering and natural materials. It reports research with a mechanically oriented description of substructures from nano- to macro-scales encompassing spatio-temporal behaviors, material instabilities, damage and fracture mechanisms, and interactions between mechanics and multiphysics phenomena including electricity, magnetism, chemistry and optics. Particular emphasis is placed on the inspection of strain rates, spatio-temporal scales, inception of microstructural features and their evolution, and couplings between mechanics and transport phenomena.The topics covered by the journal include: Thermo-mechanical constitutive response of metals, polymers, soft materials, bio-materials, natural and geo materials, ceramics, metallic glasses, granular materials, composites, shape-memory alloys, nanostructured materials, etc. Mechanics-based investigations on emerging areas such as 3D printing, additive manufacturing, bio-inspired materials, 2D materials, e.g., graphene and thin films, are encouraged. Articles that propose advances in combined experimental/computa... approaches in the above fields are of particular interest.- ISSN: 0167-6636
Marine Micropaleontology
Marine Micropaleontology is an international journal publishing original, innovative and significant scientific papers in all fields related to marine microfossils, including ecology and paleoecology, biology and paleobiology, paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, environmental monitoring, taphonomy, evolution and molecular phylogeny. The journal strongly encourages the publication of articles in which marine microfossils and/or their chemical composition are used to solve fundamental geological, environmental and biological problems. However, it does not publish purely stratigraphic or taxonomic papers. In Marine Micropaleontology, a special section is dedicated to short papers on new methods and protocols using marine microfossils. We solicit special issues on hot topics in marine micropaleontology and review articles on timely subjects.This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 13, (Climate Action) and SDG 14 (Life below water)- ISSN: 0377-8398
Clinica Chimica Acta
International Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine The Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC)Clinica Chimica Acta is a high-quality journal which publishes original Research Communications in the field of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, defined as the diagnostic application of chemistry, biochemistry, immunochemistry, biochemical aspects of hematology, toxicology, and molecular biology to the study of human disease in body fluids and cells.The objective of the journal is to publish novel information leading to a better understanding of biological mechanisms of human diseases, their prevention, diagnosis, and patient management. Reports of an applied clinical character are also welcome. Papers concerned with normal metabolic processes or with constituents of normal cells or body fluids, such as reports of experimental or clinical studies in animals, are only considered when they are clearly and directly relevant to human disease. Evaluation of commercial products have a low priority for publication, unless they are novel or represent a technological breakthrough. Studies dealing with effects of drugs and natural products and studies dealing with the redox status in various diseases are not within the journal's scope. Development and evaluation of novel analytical methodologies where applicable to diagnostic clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, including point-of-care testing, and topics on laboratory management and informatics will also be considered. Studies focused on emerging diagnostic technologies and (big) data analysis procedures including digitalization, mobile Health, and artificial Intelligence applied to Laboratory Medicine are also of interest.- ISSN: 0009-8981
Materials Chemistry and Physics
Including Materials Science Communications An international, interdisciplinary journal on science, characterisation and processing of advanced materials – The International Journal of the Materials Research Society-Taiwan (MRS-T)Materials Chemistry and Physics is devoted to short communications, full-length research papers and feature articles on interrelationships among structure, properties, processing and performance of materials. The Editors welcome manuscripts on all subjects of metallurgy, engineering and functional ceramics, specialty polymers, composites, low D materials, surface modification and coatings with emphasis on, but not limited to, energy materials, green materials, optoelectronic materials, electronic, magnetic and semiconductor materials, biomaterials, sustainable materials, degradation and reliability, and modelling of materials.Keywords: metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, composites, low D materials, nanomaterials, functional materials, high entropy materials, surface, interface, coating, thin film, porous materials, soft materials, energy materials, fuel cell, solar cell, photovoltaic, supercapacitor, battery, electrode materials, green materials, optoelectronic materials, electronic materials, magnetic material, multiferroic materials, electromagnetic materials, semiconductor materials, biomaterial, sustainable materials, materials degradation, corrosion, oxidation, reliability, materials modelling.- ISSN: 0254-0584
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
An International Journal for Innovations in Computational MethodologiesThe aim of this journal is to provide a platform discussing the development and advanced use of computational models involving the finite element method in science and engineering. The emphasis of the journal is put on mathematical and theoretical foundations, computer implementation of numerical methods, and use of numerical procedures to solve practical but challenging problems. Works demonstrating synergistic methodological or technical developments between emerging fields, such as data science and probabilistic modeling, and more traditional computational approaches are encouraged. Review articles presenting unbiased and comprehensive reviews of state-of-the-art topics will also be considered. All submissions to FINEL will be peer reviewed, and must have archival value to be suitable for publication. Reflecting the aforementioned emphasis on solution of practical problems, numerical demonstration of proposed methodologies will generally be considered a necessary ingredient for papers appearing in FINEL. Conversely, applications of existing finite element techniques to widely studied problems, or restricted to dataset generation, will typically not be favorably considered for publication.The journal encompasses any field where numerical solution procedures for initial/boundary value problems are needed to meet design and analysis needs. Although the following list is not exhaustive, contributions are sought in structural mechanics, geomechanics, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, hydrology, chemical engineering, biomechanics, electrical engineering, aero/astro engineering, and environmental engineering and science. In addition to contributions focused directly on numerical methodologies, submissions dealing with computer-aided engineering methods, parallel computing, optimal design strategies, mesh generation and post processing, code validation, experimental verification, and visualization are also solicited.- ISSN: 0168-874X
