Journal Guide

Environmental Research: Climate is a multidisciplinary, open access journal devoted to addressing important challenges concerning the physical science and assessment of climate systems and global change in a way that bridges efforts relating to impact/future risks, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security and solutions in the broadest sense.

Environmental Research: Energy is a multidisciplinary, open access journal devoted to addressing important challenges associated with energy in a way that bridges efforts relating to impact/future risks, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security and solutions in the broadest sense.

Environmental Research: Food Systems is a multidisciplinary, open access journal devoted to addressing the science of sustainable food systems in a way that bridges efforts relating to global change, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security and solutions in the broadest sense.

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is a multidisciplinary, open access journal that addresses important challenges relevant to infrastructure, sustainability and resilience in their broadest sense. Encompassing environmental, economic and social factors, all research methodologies are encouraged covering qualitative, quantitative, experimental, theoretical and applied approaches to the field.

Environmental Research: Water in an interdisciplinary, open access journal devoted to addressing important challenges associated with water in a way that bridges efforts relating to global change, nexus, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, security, and solutions in the broadest sense.

With a world-wide readership and authors from every continent, European Journal of Physics is a truly international journal dedicated to maintaining and improving the standard of taught physics in universities and other higher education institutes.

Flexible and Printed Electronics is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to publishing cutting edge research articles on electronics that can be either flexible, plastic, stretchable, conformable or printed.

Research related to electronic materials, manufacturing techniques, components or systems which meets any one (or more) of the above criteria is suitable for publication in the journal.

Fluid Dynamics Research publishes original and creative works in all fields of fluid dynamics. The scope includes theoretical, numerical and experimental studies as well as data-driven approaches that contribute to the fundamental understanding and/or application of fluid flow phenomena.

Fluid Dynamics Research covers a broad range of fundamental topics in science and engineering in fields and welcomes contributions that pioneer novel ideas and approaches to advance the understanding of fluid flow phenomena and/or develop new applications of fluid mechanics.

Functional composites and structures are essential to the creation of next-generation technologies and cultures in the fourth industrial revolution. Advances in this area will promote human welfare by overcoming global energy and environmental crises and climate change. In addition, new knowledge in this field will facilitate innovative advancements in living necessities, mobile devices, sporting goods, transportation (land, marine, and aerospace), energy and environmental applications, and will aid in the creation of a variety of new competitive industries.

The International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing is a multidisciplinary journal uniquely covering the areas related to extreme manufacturing. The journal is devoted to publishing original articles and reviews of the highest quality and impact in the areas related to extreme manufacturing, ranging from fundamentals to process, measurement, and systems, as well as materials, structures, and devices with extreme functionalities.

An interdisciplinary journal combining mathematical and experimental papers on inverse problems with numerical and practical approaches to their solution.

The Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) is an international journal for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in all fields of applied physics. The journal publishes articles dealing with the applications of physical principles as well as articles concerning the understanding of physics that have particular applications in mind. The journal not only covers all aspects of modern technology such as semiconductor devices including VLSI technology, photonic devices, superconductors, and magnetic recording but also covers other diverse areas such as plasma physics, particle accelerators, nanoscience and technology, and applied bioscience. Articles in interdisciplinary areas with potential technological implications are strongly encouraged.JJAP is published monthly and is for Regular Papers, Rapid Communications, Brief Notes, and Review Papers. Rapid Communications are published bimonthly online. In addition, several Special Issues are published each year. These contain monographs from international conferences and up-to-date findings of research groups.Comments and replies are also published. This section includes the comments on papers previously published in JJAP, and a replies to those.There is also a special section, “Selected Topics in Applied Physics” that highlights specific topics in applied physics. This section features rapidly developing current trends in the selected research area. .

Journal of Breath Research is dedicated to all aspects of scientific breath research. The traditional focus is on analysis of volatile compounds and aerosols in exhaled breath for the investigation of exogenous exposures, metabolism, toxicology, health status and the diagnosis of disease and breath odours. Journal of Breath Research provides a forum for the presentation and critical evaluation of the different analytical techniques used for analysis of breath samples for medical diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring. These include gas-chromatography with mass-spectrometric detection (GCMS), selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS), proton-transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS), ion mobility spectroscopy (IMS), laser spectrometry and sensor technology. Appropriate sampling procedures for breath and the interpretation of results from the clinical and physiological viewpoints will be a particular focus.

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) covers all aspects of cosmology and particle astrophysics and encompasses theoretical, observational and experimental areas as well as computation and simulation.

Frequency: 4 issues per year.Subject coverage. The journal aims to promote research and developments in geophysics and related areas of engineering.It has a predominantly applied science and engineering focus, but solicits and accepts high-quality contributions in all earth physics, including geodynamics, natural and controlled-source seismology, oil, gas and mineral exploration, petrophysics and reservoir geophysics.It covers those aspects of engineering that are closely related to geophysics or on the targets and problems that geophysics addresses. Typically this is engineering focused on the subsurface, particularly petroleum engineering, rock mechanics, geophysical software engineering, drilling technology, remote sensing, instrumentation and sensor design.Articles. Original contributions, not normally more than 8000 words (14 journal pages).Invited articles. Commissioned by the Editorial Board.

JINST covers major areas related to concepts and instrumentation in detector physics, accelerator science and associated experimental methods and techniques, theory, modelling and simulations. The main subject areas include: Accelerators: concepts, modelling, simulations and sources Instrumentation and hardware for accelerators: particles, synchrotron radiation, neutrons Detector physics: concepts, processes, methods, modelling and simulations Detectors, apparatus and methods for particle, astroparticle, nuclear, atomic, and molecular physics Instrumentation and methods for plasma research Methods and apparatus for astronomy and astrophysics Detectors, methods and apparatus for biomedical applications, life sciences and material research Instrumentation and techniques for medical imaging, diagnostics and therapy Instrumentation and techniques for dosimetry, monitoring and radiation damage Detectors, instrumentation and methods for non-destructive tests (NDT) Detector readout concepts, electronics and data acquisition methods Algorithms, software and data reduction methods Materials and associated technologies, etc. Engineering and technical issues.

Frequency: 12 issues per year.Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering covers all aspects of microelectromechanical structures, devices, and systems, as well as micromechanics and micromechatronics. The journal focuses on original work in fabrication and integration technologies, on the micro- and nano-scale. The journal aims to highlight the link between new fabrication technologies and their capacity to create novel devices. Original work in microengineering and nanoengineering is also reported. Such work is defined as applications of these fabrication and integration technologies to structures in which key attributes of the devices or systems depend on specific micro- or nano-scale features. Such applications span the physical, chemical, electrical and biological realms. New fabrication and integration techniques for both silicon and non-silicon materials are reported. Relevant modelling papers in micro- and nanoengineering are reported where supported by experimental data. The journal also covers integration of interface electronics with micro- and nanoengineered systems, as well as vacuum microelectronics, microfabricated electrically passive elements, and other micro- or nanoengineering-enabled electrical devices.A submission to Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering must be the original work of the author(s) and must not be published elsewhere or be under consideration for another publication in its submitted or a substantially similar form in any language. Contributions in the following categories may be submitted.

The goal of the Journal is as a forum for the interdisciplinary field of neural engineering where neuroscientists, neurobiologists and engineers can publish their work in one periodical that bridges the gap between neuroscience and engineering. The Journal publishes articles in the field of neural engineering at the molecular, cellular and systems levels.The scope of the Journal encompasses experimental, computational, theoretical, clinical and applied aspects of brain-machine (computer) interface neural interfacing neurotechnology neuroelectronics neuromodulation neural prostheses neural control neuro-rehabilitation neurorobotics optical neural engineering neural circuits: artificial & biological neuromorphic engineering neural tissue regeneration neural signal processing theoretical and computational neuroscience systems neuroscience translational neuroscience.