Materials research - Ibero-American Journal of Materials: judicious, fair and educative!

Abstract

Judicious, fair and educative! This issue of Materials Research contains articles selected from regular submissions in the period 2006-2007, and a number of papers that were carefully selected from hundreds presented at the 17 th CBECIMAT (Brazilian Congress of Materials Science and Engineering) held in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, November 2006. The review process for all these papers was done via internet: papers submitted in electronic format were e-mailed to two referees each and the review reports were received by e-mail. All the procedures necessary to assemble the present issue were thus carried out via e-mail. Dozens of regular articles are being reviewed at present. Articles presented at the annual meeting of the Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM) in 2006 are now under evaluation. We should emphasize once more that we do not publish conference proceedings; instead we judiciously select papers presented at different conferences, which are viewed by our team as important sources of articles for thematic or regular issues. Pre-selected conference papers are analyzed by two referees of Materials Research using the same criteria applied for the regular papers. At present Materials Research is indexed in the Chemical Abstracts, World Ceramic Abstracts, International Pool of Glass Abstracts, Scielo and in the powerful electronic database SCOPUS (http://www. scopus.com/scopus/home.url), which allows one to search articles by title, keyword, author name, etc., and also shows article citations. The best Brazilian journals, including Materials Research-which are part of Scielo (www.scielo.org.br)-are undergoing a process of collective indexation by the ISI (Institute of Scientific Information), but this is expected to be a long process. Because Mat. Res.