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Journal IF Cite Score Section Title | Editors Submission Deadline Articles
Water 3.0 5.8 Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems Anthropogenic and Climatic Disturbances in Aquatic Ecosystems: Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Effects
(Editor: Stefano Cozzi)
20 December 2024 3
Water 3.0 5.8 (none) Innovative Trends to Reshape the Water Science, Technology and Engineering
(Editor: Helena M. Ramos)
31 December 2024 1
Water 3.0 5.8 Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems Contemporary Threats to Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems
(Editors: Iga Lewin, Andrzej Zawal)
20 January 2025 0
Vision - 2.3 (none) Visual Mental Imagery System: How We Image the World
(Editor: David F. Marks)
31 October 2024 5
Vision - 2.3 (none) New Horizons in Myopia Management: Bridging Epidemiology and Clinical Innovation
(Editors: Yair Morad, Nir Erdinest)
20 September 2024 3
Vision - 2.3 (none) Effects of Optical and Behavioral Factors on the Ocular Accommodation Response
(Editors: Beatriz Redondo Cabrera, Niall Hynes)
31 January 2025 1
Viruses 3.8 7.3 Human Virology and Viral Diseases Virological and Immunological Factors Underlying HBV Functional Cure and HBV Reactivation
(Editor: Valentina Svicher)
15 December 2024 0
Viruses 3.8 7.3 Animal Viruses Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses
(Editor: Shafiqul Chowdhury)
30 November 2024 0
Virtual Worlds - - (none) Networked Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality Systems
(Editors: Jorge C. S. Cardoso, Thiago Malheiros Porcino)
30 November 2024 4
Virtual Worlds - - (none) Serious Games and Extended Reality in Healthcare and/or Education
(Editors: Chen Huei Leo, Kang Hao Cheong, Bina Rai)
30 November 2024 4
Veterinary Sciences 2.0 2.9 (none) One Health Special Issue on the Occasion of the One Health Day
(Editors: Patrick Butaye, Samson Mukaratirwa)
16 October 2024 1
Veterinary Sciences 2.0 2.9 (none) Soft-Tissue Sarcomas in Dogs
(Editors: Jane Dobson, Alison Hayes)
05 December 2024 4
Veterinary Sciences 2.0 2.9 (none) Effects of Feeding Strategies on Rumen Function and Animal Performance
(Editors: Ana Rita Jordão Cabrita, Margarida Maia)
08 November 2024 7
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Vaccines against Tropical and other Infectious Diseases 2nd Edition of Vaccines against Pneumococcal Infection
(Editor: Alan Cross)
25 September 2024 4
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Human Papillomavirus Vaccines Vaccine Strategies for HPV-Related Cancers
(Editor: Diane M. Harper)
01 November 2024 10
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Veterinary Vaccines Vaccines and Animal Health
(Editors: Matteo Legnardi, Claudia Maria Tucciarone)
31 January 2025 8
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy Vaccines Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment: Challenges and Future Prospects
(Editors: Walter J. Storkus, Devin Lowe)
30 November 2024 3
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination Understanding Immune Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines
(Editor: Federico De Marco)
31 July 2025 3
Trauma Care - - (none) Psychological and Neurobiological Bases of Threat Processing in Victims of Pandemics and Natural Disasters
(Editors: Massimiliano Conson, Laura Sagliano)
30 June 2025 3
Trauma Care - - (none) Exercise and Sport-Related Injuries: Rehab and Readapt
(Editor: Daniel Rojas-Valverde)
30 June 2025 3
Trauma Care - - (none) Emergency Trauma Care: The Role of Telemedicine and m-Health Applications
(Editors: Andres M. Rubiano, Shaheem De Vries)
30 June 2025 0
Tomography 2.2 2.7 (none) Stroke: Quantitative Imaging-Guided Approaches
(Editor: Jawed Nawabi)
31 December 2024 2
Tomography 2.2 2.7 Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging Bias in Tomography Artificial Intelligence
(Editor: Pascal N. Tyrrell)
20 December 2024 0
Tomography 2.2 2.7 (none) Feature Reviews for Tomography 2023
(Editor: Emilio Quaia)
30 April 2025 3
Technologies 4.2 6.7 Information and Communication Technologies IoT-Enabling Technologies and Applications
(Editor: Xavier Fernando)
28 February 2025 4
Technologies 4.2 6.7 Information and Communication Technologies Data Science and Big Data in Biology, Physical Science and Engineering II
(Editor: Mohammed Mahmoud)
30 September 2024 2
Symmetry 2.2 5.4 Mathematics Feature Papers in Mathematics Section
(Editor: Calogero Vetro)
31 December 2024 5
Social Sciences 1.7 2.6 Social Policy and Welfare The Contested Terrain of Sport: Sociological, Political and Policy Perspectives
(Editors: Steve Jackson, Mike Sam)
01 October 2024 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Biomedical Sensors Image Analysis and Biomedical Sensors
(Editors: Robert Martí, Joan Martí Bonmatí)
30 November 2024 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Biosensors Micro/Nano-Devices for Biosensing: From Single Molecule Sensing to Device Applications
(Editor: Ken Hirano)
31 October 2024 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Remote Sensors Innovations in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Modern Sensors, New Processing Strategies and Advances in Applications (Volume II)
(Editors: Francesco Pirotti, Francesco Mancini)
30 October 2024 7
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Internet of Things Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart City
(Editors: Guisong Yang, Yutong Liu, Linghe Kong)
25 December 2024 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Internet of Things 5G/6G Networks for Wireless Communication and IoT
(Editors: Giuseppe Araniti, Chiara Suraci, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roberto Morabito, Antonino Orsino)
30 September 2024 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Optical Sensors Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Technologies and Applications
(Editors: Martin Litzenberger, Gaetan Calbris, Bernd Drapp)
25 March 2025 10
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Biosensors Nature Inspired Engineering: Biomimetic Sensors
(Editors: Kiyoshi Toko, Xiao Wu)
20 May 2025 9
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Optical Sensors Spectroscopy-Based Sensing Technologies for Food Quality and Safety
(Editors: J. Paul Robinson, Euiwon Bae)
20 November 2024 6
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Physical Sensors Advances in Particle Detectors and Radiation Detectors
(Editors: Ismael Martel Bravo, Olof Tengblad)
05 December 2024 12
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Physical Sensors Smart Sensing Technologies for Human-Centered Healthcare: Research and Applications
(Editors: Thanasis Tsanas, Andreas Triantafyllidis, Asimina Kiourti, Siddharth Arora)
31 October 2024 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Sensor Networks UAV and Sensors Applications for Navigation and Positioning
(Editors: Yongbo Zhang, Yuhang Li)
15 November 2024 9
Sci - 4.5 Biology Research and Life Sciences One Health
(Editor: Mark A. Brown)
31 December 2024 1
Risks 2.0 3.8 (none) Applied Financial and Actuarial Risk Analytics
(Editors: Tak Kuen Ken Siu, Hailiang Yang)
31 December 2024 3
Risks 2.0 3.8 (none) Life Insurance and Pensions: Latest Advances and Prospects
(Editors: Pierre Devolder, Massimiliano Menzietti)
31 October 2024 4
Recycling 4.6 6.8 (none) Emerging Technologies in the Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Critical Metals
(Editor: Ana Paula Paiva)
31 January 2025 2
QuBS 1.3 2.8 Engineering and Structural Materials Quantum Beam and Its Applications for Quantum Technologies
(Editor: Takeshi Ohshima)
30 November 2024 3
Processes 2.8 5.1 Chemical Processes and Systems 10th Anniversary of Processes: Design of the Chemical Industry of the Future
(Editor: Fausto Gallucci)
31 December 2024 8
Processes 2.8 5.1 Separation Processes Green Separation and Purification Processes
(Editors: Inês Portugal, Carlos Manuel Silva, José Aniceto)
20 December 2024 8
Processes 2.8 5.1 Advanced Digital and Other Processes Features, Reviews and Perspectives for the 10th Anniversary of Processes
(Editors: Giancarlo Cravotto, Zhen Fang, Jose V. Garcia-Perez)
31 December 2024 23
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Processing and Engineering Polymer Micro/Nanofabrication and Manufacturing II
(Editor: Yi-Je Juang)
15 September 2024 8
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Physics and Theory Polymers Physics: From Theory to Experimental Applications
(Editors: Célio Pinto Fernandes, Luís L. Jorge Lima Ferraz, Alexandre M. Afonso)
15 September 2024 16
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites Advances in Thermal, Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Composites
(Editors: Gabriel Pinto, Victoria Alcázar Montero, Marina Patricia Arrieta Dillon)
30 December 2024 13
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Physics and Theory Computational Modeling and Simulations of Polymers
(Editors: Juan J. Freire, Costas H. Vlahos)
31 December 2024 10
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Physics and Theory Theoretical and Computational Polymers Science: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
(Editor: Hector Eduardo Roman)
25 January 2025 4
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites Epoxy Polymers and Composites
(Editors: Zhengguang Heng, Yang Chen, Huawei Zou)
30 December 2024 0
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Nutrition Plant Surfaces: Physico-Chemical Properties, Interaction with Deposited Matter and Permeability
(Editors: Victoria Fernández, Thomas Eichert)
20 December 2024 8
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions Embracing Systems Thinking in Crop Protection Science
(Editors: Kris A.G. Wyckhuys, Nicolas Desneux, Yanhui Lu, Livy Williams)
30 November 2024 11
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change Role of Aquaporins in Stress Responses of Woody Plants
(Editors: Janusz J. Zwiazek, Maryamsadat Vaziriyeganeh)
20 December 2024 0
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions Plant Chemical Ecology
(Editors: Chui-Hua Kong, Yonggen Lou, Peng Wang, Guoxin Zhou)
31 December 2024 10
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Development and Morphogenesis Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Root Growth Behavior
(Editors: Patrick Masson, Shih-Heng Su)
30 January 2025 2
Plants 4.0 6.5 Phytochemistry Natural Products in Plants: Synthesis, Analysis and Bioactivity
(Editors: Alberto Minassi, Federica Pollastro)
28 February 2025 0
Photonics 2.1 2.6 Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Photonics Sensors
(Editors: Carlos Marques, Flavio Esposito)
10 December 2024 24
Photonics 2.1 2.6 Optical Interaction Science Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Nonlinear Photonics
(Editors: Luigi Sirleto, François Sanchez, Yan Feng)
10 November 2024 8
Photonics 2.1 2.6 Optical Communication and Network Advanced Technologies in Optical Wireless Communications
(Editors: Cuiwei He, Chen Chen)
15 October 2024 9
Photonics 2.1 2.6 (none) Advances in Ultrafast Optics: From Fundamental Science to Applications
(Editors: Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto)
15 November 2024 2
Pediatric Reports 1.4 2.1 (none) Recent Advances in Congenital Anomalies of the Kidneys and Urinary Tract (CAKUT)
(Editors: Velibor Tasic, Marcin Tkaczyk, Silvio Maringhini)
30 June 2025 3
Pediatric Reports 1.4 2.1 Pediatric Psychology Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders of Children and Adolescents
(Editor: Artemis K. Tsitsika)
30 April 2025 6
Pathogens 3.3 6.4 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Emergence and Control of African Swine Fever
(Editors: Lauro Velazquez-Salinas, Gisselle N. Medina, Elizabeth Ramirez-Medina)
31 January 2025 19
Pathogens 3.3 6.4 Bacterial Pathogens New Insight in Pathogenic Escherichia coli: Infections, Pathogenesis and Therapies
(Editor: Bogdan Nowicki)
30 September 2024 7
Pathogens 3.3 6.4 (none) Women’s Special Issue Series: Pathogens
(Editors: Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Nicola Carter)
30 September 2024 11
Nutrients 4.8 9.2 Phytochemicals and Human Health New Advances in Effect of Natural Compounds on Vascular Inflammation, Aging and Cardiovascular Disease
(Editors: Francesco Paolo Mancini, Carmela Spagnuolo, Alberto Zullo)
05 February 2025 8
Nutrients 4.8 9.2 Phytochemicals and Human Health Consumption of Bean and Human Health
(Editors: Sonia Blanco Mejia, Andreea Zurbau, Laura Chiavaroli)
15 October 2024 8
Nutrients 4.8 9.2 Nutrition and Public Health Databases, Nutrition and Human Health
(Editors: Andreu Farran-Codina, Mireia Urpi-Sarda)
15 October 2024 5
Nutrients 4.8 9.2 Nutrition Methodology & Assessment Innovative Strategies for Preventing Nutrition-Related Chronic Diseases
(Editors: George Moschonis, Tina Cao)
05 October 2024 4
Nursing Reports 2.4 2.5 (none) Self-Management of Chronic Disease
(Editor: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob)
31 December 2024 3
Nursing Reports 2.4 2.5 (none) Nursing Innovation and Quality Improvement
(Editor: Ashley Shepherd)
31 May 2025 4
Nitrogen 1.6 2.6 (none) Nitrogen Cycling in Permafrost Soils
(Editors: Benjamin Abbott, Christina Biasi, Pertti Martikainen)
31 October 2024 5
Nanomaterials 4.4 8.5 2D and Carbon Nanomaterials Graphene-Based Nanomaterials (2nd Edition)
(Editors: Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, Stamatios Amanatiadis)
20 March 2025 5
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Natural Products Chemistry Natural Products as Antimicrobial Agents: From Extraction to Therapeutic Applications
(Editor: Céline Rivière)
31 December 2024 9
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Macromolecular Chemistry Exclusive Feature Papers in Macromolecular Chemistry
(Editor: Ivan Gitsov)
31 December 2024 11
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Analytical Chemistry Advances in Pharmaceutical Analytical Technologies
(Editor: Alexis Oliva)
30 November 2024 8
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Inorganic Chemistry Exclusive Feature Papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Andrea Bencini, Vito Lippolis)
31 December 2024 31
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Nanochemistry Featured Reviews in Nanochemistry
(Editor: Adrian Keller)
31 December 2024 7
Minerals 2.2 4.1 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Industrial Minerals Flotation—Fundamentals and Applications
(Editors: Xuming Wang, Jan D. Miller)
28 February 2025 2
Minerals 2.2 4.1 Biomineralization and Biominerals Biomineralization and Biominerals: Lessons from Mineral-Producing Organisms, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Oluwatoosin Agbaje, Olev Vinn)
28 February 2025 2
Microorganisms 4.1 7.4 Gut Microbiota Gut Microbiota and Nutrients, 2nd Edition
(Editor: Seong-Tshool Hong)
31 October 2024 7
Micromachines 3.0 5.2 (none) Micromachines Research and Development in North America
(Editors: Sima Noghanian, Negar Ebadi, George Shaker)
30 October 2024 4
Micromachines 3.0 5.2 A:Physics Photonic and Optoelectronic Devices and Systems, Second Edition
(Editors: Muhammad Ali Butt, Sotirios Baskoutas)
30 December 2024 6
Metals 2.6 4.9 Metal Failure Analysis Creep and Fatigue Behavior of Alloys
(Editor: A. Toshimitsu Yokobori, Jr.)
30 September 2024 6
Metals 2.6 4.9 Biobased and Biodegradable Metals Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Advanced Metallic Biomaterials
(Editors: Silvia Spriano, Takayoshi Nakano)
15 November 2024 5
Medicina 2.4 3.3 Dentistry and Oral Health Recent Advances in Periodontics and Dental Implantology: Part II
(Editor: Jun-Beom Park)
30 September 2024 11
Medicina 2.4 3.3 Gastroenterology & Hepatology Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Diseases
(Editors: Marcello Candelli, Ludovico Abenavoli)
31 December 2024 8
Medicina 2.4 3.3 Infectious Disease Infectious and Tropical Diseases: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
(Editor: Temi Lampejo)
25 January 2025 6
Medicina 2.4 3.3 Endocrinology Advances in Clinical Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Diseases
(Editors: Yuzuru Ohshiro, Kunimasa Yagi, Yasuhiro Maeno)
31 October 2024 9
Medicina 2.4 3.3 Surgery Update on Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases (2nd Edition)
(Editors: Se Hwan Hwang, Do Hyun Kim)
10 March 2025 2
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Mathematical Physics Transport Phenomena Equations: Modelling and Applications
(Editors: Torcicollo Isabella, Carfora Maria Francesca)
31 December 2024 8
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Engineering Mathematics Mathematical and Computational Models of Cognition
(Editor: Ronaldo Vigo)
01 December 2024 5
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Computational and Applied Mathematics Mathematical Modeling and Data Science for Biology and Medicine
(Editor: Takashi Suzuki)
15 April 2025 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Network Science Neural Networks and Their Applications
(Editor: Mario Muñoz Organero)
30 November 2024 8
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Fuzzy Sets, Systems and Decision Making Topological Study on Fuzzy Metric Spaces and Their Generalizations
(Editor: Juan José Miñana)
31 December 2024 6
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Computational and Applied Mathematics Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
(Editor: Anna Sciomachen)
31 March 2025 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Algebra, Geometry and Topology New Advances in Algebra, Ring Theory and Homological Algebra, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Juan Ramón García Rozas, Luis Oyonarte Alcalá, Driss Bennis)
30 November 2024 10
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