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Materials 3.1 5.8 Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Advances in Nanomaterials for (Opto-)electronic Devices
(Editors: Lin Wang, Junyong Wang)
10 January 2025 1
Materials 3.1 5.8 Biomaterials Recent Advancements in Technology and Applications for Dental Ceramics (Second Edition)
(Editor: Sompop Bencharit)
20 January 2025 2
Materials 3.1 5.8 Quantum Materials Effect of Structure on Magnetism and Conductivity Properties of 2D Materials
(Editor: Karol Nogajewski)
20 December 2024 0
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Investigation of Microstructural and Corrosion Properties of Steels and Light Alloys (2nd Edition)
(Editors: Claudio Gennari, Luca Pezzato)
20 October 2024 2
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Characterization, Properties, and Applications of New Metallic Alloys
(Editors: Weimin Wang, Ki Buem Kim)
20 April 2025 4
Materials 3.1 5.8 Advanced Composites Recent Advances in Conductive and Electrical Insulating Polymer Composites
(Editor: Pengfei Fang)
20 October 2024 5
Materials 3.1 5.8 Catalytic Materials High-Efficient Electrocatalytic Materials
(Editor: Wenjie Jiang)
20 November 2024 1
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Corrosion Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials
(Editor: Xiaogang Li)
20 January 2025 4
Materials 3.1 5.8 Carbon Materials Carbon Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Applications
(Editor: Ying Wu)
20 October 2024 3
Materials 3.1 5.8 Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Advances in Nanomaterials for Medical Application, Drug Delivery and Bone Tissue Engineering
(Editor: Marco Biondi)
20 October 2024 2
Materials 3.1 5.8 Construction and Building Materials Advances in Experimental Investigation and Computational Modeling of Fiber Reinforced Polymers and Composites
(Editors: Aliakbar Gholampour, Togay Ozbakkaloglu)
20 December 2024 4
Materials 3.1 5.8 Polymeric Materials Fabrication, Characteristics and Applications of Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites
(Editor: Jianhua Zhang)
20 March 2025 0
Water 3.0 5.8 (none) Innovative Trends to Reshape the Water Science, Technology and Engineering
(Editor: Helena M. Ramos)
31 December 2024 1
Biology 3.6 5.7 Bioinformatics Multi-omics Data Integration in Complex Diseases
(Editors: Min Zhao, Ruifeng Hu, Dario Di Silvestre)
30 April 2025 9
Biology 3.6 5.7 Immunology Immune Response Regulation in Animals
(Editors: Rong Gao, Hua-Ji Qiu)
30 September 2024 8
JCM 3.0 5.7 Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine Current Challenges in Clinical Dentistry
(Editors: Eiji Tanaka, Susumu Abe)
25 September 2024 14
Biology 3.6 5.7 Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Insights into Life History
(Editors: Thomas Colard, Adeline Le Cabec)
31 August 2024 4
JCM 3.0 5.7 Oncology High-Risk Neuroblastoma: New Clinical Insights and Challenges
(Editors: Rupert Handgretinger, Johannes Hubertus Schulte)
20 November 2024 7
JCM 3.0 5.7 Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine Current Challenges in Oral Surgery
(Editor: Christian Bacci)
05 January 2025 9
Climate 3.0 5.5 Climate Dynamics and Modelling Climate Variability in the Mediterranean Region
(Editors: Nir Y. Krakauer, Mohammed Achite, Tommaso Caloiero, Sharon Gourdji, Andrzej Wałęga)
31 January 2025 9
Symmetry 2.2 5.4 Mathematics Feature Papers in Mathematics Section
(Editor: Calogero Vetro)
31 December 2024 4
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Systems & Control Engineering High Performance Control and Industrial Applications
(Editors: Luis Gomes, Weichao Sun, Weiyang Lin)
15 October 2024 15
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Circuit and Signal Processing Embedded Systems: Fundamentals, Design and Practical Applications
(Editors: Alexander Barkalov, Larysa Titarenko, Dariusz Kania, Remigiusz Wiśniewski)
15 September 2024 21
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Networks Recent Advances in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
(Editors: Binod Vaidya, Byung Rae Cha)
15 September 2024 8
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Semiconductor Devices Wide Bandgap Semiconductor: From Epilayer to Devices
(Editors: Ray-Hua Horng, Giovanna Mura, Qixin Guo, Chin-Han(King) Chung, Ching-Lien Hsiao)
31 August 2024 5
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Microwave and Wireless Communications Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Radar Electronics for Contactless Sensing Applications
(Editors: Emanuele Cardillo, Changzhi Li)
28 February 2025 7
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Circuit and Signal Processing Ultra-Low-Voltage and Ultra-Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Systems Evolution
(Editors: Andrea Ballo, Gaetano Palumbo, Orazio Aiello)
15 November 2024 10
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Power Electronics Innovative Technologies in Power Converters, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Aitor Vázquez Ardura, Diego Gonzalez Lamar)
30 November 2024 6
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Microwave and Wireless Communications Antenna Designs for 5G/IoT and Space Applications, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Faisel Tubbal, Ladislau Matekovits, Raad Raad)
15 January 2025 8
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Artificial Intelligence Signal and Image Processing Applications in Artificial Intelligence
(Editors: Fabio Mendonca, Morgado Dias, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa)
17 December 2024 10
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Artificial Intelligence AI Technologies and Smart City
(Editors: Young Im Cho, Eric Matson)
16 September 2024 11
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Power Electronics Section Collection Series: New Horizons and Recent Advances in Power Electronics
(Editors: Luis M. Fernández-Ramírez, Ahmed Abu-Siada, Jean-Christophe Crebier, Zhiwei Gao, Kai Fu, Eladio Durán Aranda)
31 December 2024 18
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Industrial Electronics Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies
(Editor: Giacomo Cerretti)
15 November 2024 9
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Industrial Electronics Electromechanical Actuators and Sensors Targeting Mechatronics in the Smart Industry
(Editors: Junghwan Chang, Sarbajit Paul, Anindya Nag)
30 September 2024 7
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Computer Science & Engineering Selected Papers from Young Researchers in Signal/Image/Video Coding and Processing
(Editors: Ionut Schiopu, Radu Ciprian Bilcu)
15 August 2024 10
Electronics 2.6 5.3 (none) Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the University of Manchester—Electrical and Electronic Engineering
(Editors: Zhengtao Ding, Zhenhong Li, Alessandra Parisio)
31 December 2024 4
Geosciences 2.4 5.3 Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry: Latest Developments and Applications for Geosciences
(Editor: William M. White)
30 November 2024 0
Infrastructures 2.7 5.2 (none) Bridge Modeling, Monitoring, Management and Beyond
(Editor: Ekin Ozer)
31 October 2024 2
Infrastructures 2.7 5.2 (none) Railway in the City (RiC)
(Editor: Maciej Kruszyna)
30 November 2024 7
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Molecular and Translational Medicine Inherited Retinal Diseases: From Pathomolecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies
(Editor: José Martín-Nieto)
31 January 2025 4
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Neurobiology and Clinical Neuroscience Emerging Research in Neurorehabilitation
(Editor: Manuel Gaviria)
31 December 2024 5
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Diabetes and Complications of Diabetes: Pathophysiology, Mechanisms, and Therapies
(Editors: Daniel Petroviĉ, Draženka Pongrac Barlovič)
31 October 2024 9
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Cell Biology and Pathology The Role of Intestinal Epithelial Cells and Their Cellular Interactions
(Editor: Younggeon Jin)
31 October 2024 2
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Cancer Biology and Oncology Pancreatic Cancer: Pathomechanism, Diagnostics and Novel Treatment Options
(Editors: Konstantinos Dimas, Dimitrios E. Magouliotis)
30 September 2024 3
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Molecular and Translational Medicine Urothelial Carcinoma: Role of Biomarkers in Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment
(Editors: Ioannis Zachos, Panagiotis Vlachostergios)
31 October 2024 6
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Cell Biology and Pathology Molecular Insights into Myocardial Infarction
(Editor: Dong Wang)
31 October 2024 10
Micromachines 3.0 5.2 (none) Micromachines Research and Development in North America
(Editors: Sima Noghanian, Negar Ebadi, George Shaker)
30 October 2024 4
Biomedicines 3.9 5.2 Cancer Biology and Oncology Head and Neck Tumors, 3rd Edition
(Editors: Silvia Di Agostino, Jan B. Vermorken)
31 August 2024 10
Micromachines 3.0 5.2 A:Physics Photonic and Optoelectronic Devices and Systems, Second Edition
(Editors: Muhammad Ali Butt, Sotirios Baskoutas)
30 December 2024 5
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 7
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 17
Infectious Disease Reports 3.4 5.1 Infection Prevention and Control Emerging Infections: Epidemiology, Diagnostics, Clinics and Evolution
(Editors: Massimo Ciccozzi, Marta Giovanetti)
31 October 2024 7
Metals 2.6 4.9 Metal Failure Analysis Creep and Fatigue Behavior of Alloys
(Editor: A. Toshimitsu Yokobori, Jr.)
30 September 2024 6
Animals 2.7 4.9 Poultry Coccidiosis in Poultry: Current Thinking on Eimeria spp., Host–Parasite Relationships, and Potential for Advancements in Control
(Editor: Kenneth Bafundo)
25 September 2024 8
Animals 2.7 4.9 Equids Advances in Equine Neonatal Care
(Editors: Pamela A. Wilkins, Annette Marie McCoy)
25 September 2024 0
Animals 2.7 4.9 Animal Welfare Care and Well-Being of Laboratory Animals
(Editor: Stephanie Krämer)
25 January 2025 8
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
Animals 2.7 4.9 Animal Physiology Exploring Stress Responses in Farm Animals: A Focus on Physiological and Behavioral Aspects
(Editors: Désirée Gellatly, Tiago da Silva Valente)
31 March 2025 2
Brain Sciences 2.7 4.8 Neurolinguistics Neurofunctional Basis of Language Processing
(Editor: Roozbeh Rezaie)
25 August 2024 6
Brain Sciences 2.7 4.8 Neural Engineering, Neuroergonomics and Neurorobotics EEG and Event-Related Potentials
(Editor: Peter Walla)
18 November 2024 8
Brain Sciences 2.7 4.8 Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging Insight in the Application of Rehabilitation Devices in Neurological Disease
(Editor: Maria Cristina De Cola)
25 October 2024 4
Brain Sciences 2.7 4.8 Psychiatric Diseases Clinical Research on Addiction Psychiatry: Opportunities and Challenges
(Editor: Mark S. Gold)
20 October 2024 2
Electricity - 4.8 (none) Advances in Operation, Optimization, and Control of Smart Grids
(Editors: Murilo E.C. Bento, Hugo Morais)
31 January 2025 0
Electricity - 4.8 (none) Planning, Operation and Control of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Variable Renewable Generation
(Editor: Emilio Gomez-Lazaro)
31 December 2024 0
Administrative Sciences 3.0 4.8 (none) AI, Tokenization, and FinTech: Implications of Governance Issues
(Editors: Seoungpil Ahn, Young Kim)
31 December 2024 1
Administrative Sciences 3.0 4.8 (none) Navigating Global Sustainability Compliance Challenges: The Role of Organizational Change Strategies
(Editor: Francesco Ceresia)
30 September 2024 0
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Applications Gel-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Treatment
(Editors: Haoan Wu, Xingchun Gao)
30 September 2024 10
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Analysis and Characterization Food Gels: Structure and Properties
(Editor: Hongjie Dai)
30 September 2024 8
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Applications Gels: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications in High Performance Chemistry (2nd Edition)
(Editors: Viorel-Puiu Paun, Maria-Alexandra Paun)
30 October 2024 13
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Processing and Engineering Design of Supramolecular Hydrogels
(Editors: Dipankar Ghosh, Gareth O. Lloyd, Elina I. Sievanen)
15 April 2025 0
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Processing and Engineering Liposomal and Ethosomal Gels: From Design to Application (2nd Edition)
(Editors: Maddalena Sguizzato, Rita Cortesi)
31 August 2024 2
JFB 5.0 4.6 Antibacterial Biomaterials Antibacterial Materials: Recent Advances in Methodologies and Regulations
(Editors: Claudia Vineis, Alessio Varesano)
20 August 2024 8
Sci - 4.5 Biology Research and Life Sciences One Health
(Editor: Mark A. Brown)
31 December 2024 1
EJIHPE 3.0 4.4 (none) Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Health Field or Education
(Editor: Hyunsu Lee)
31 October 2024 9
Forests 2.4 4.4 Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science Forest Ecosystem Services and Landscape Design - Series II
(Editor: Radu-Daniel Pintilii)
25 January 2025 11
Forests 2.4 4.4 Forest Ecology and Management Ecosystem-Disturbance Interactions in Forests
(Editors: Camilla Wellstein, Roberto Tognetti, Daniel Scherrer)
20 December 2024 3
JMSE 2.7 4.4 Physical Oceanography Latest Advances in Physical Oceanography—2nd Edition
(Editors: João Miguel Dias, Mª Teresa de Castro Rodríguez)
31 August 2024 2
Crystals 2.4 4.2 Inorganic Crystalline Materials Advances in Low-Dimensional Materials for Electronics and Sensing Applications
(Editors: Hu Li, Klaus Leifer)
20 October 2024 10
Crystals 2.4 4.2 Biomolecular Crystals New Advances in Protein Crystallography
(Editors: Rocco Caliandro, Benedetta Carrozzini)
10 November 2024 1
Crystals 2.4 4.2 Liquid Crystals Liquid Crystal Research and Novel Applications in the 21st Century
(Editor: Ingo Dierking)
31 December 2024 5
Crystals 2.4 4.2 Polycrystalline Ceramics Advanced Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric and Dielectric Ceramics
(Editor: Zhonghua Yao)
14 September 2024 12
JPM 3.0 4.1 Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery Personalized Management of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
(Editors: Vito Pavone, Federico Canavese, Marco Sapienza)
15 January 2025 7
Minerals 2.2 4.1 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Industrial Minerals Flotation—Fundamentals and Applications
(Editors: Xuming Wang, Jan D. Miller)
31 August 2024 2
Algorithms 1.8 4.1 Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity Theory Surveys in Algorithm Analysis and Complexity Theory, Part II
(Editor: Jesper Jansson)
28 February 2025 4
Algorithms 1.8 4.1 Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications Supervised and Unsupervised Classification Algorithms (2nd Edition)
(Editors: Mario Rosario Guarracino, Laura Antonelli, Pietro Hiram Guzzi)
31 August 2024 10
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 7
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Difference and Differential Equations Differential and Integro–Differential Equations: Theory and Applications
(Editors: Jüri Majak, Andrus Salupere)
31 August 2024 9
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 8
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
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Computational and Applied Mathematics Approximation Theory and Applications
(Editors: Paola Lamberti, Incoronata Notarangelo)
20 January 2025 8
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Computational and Applied Mathematics Advances in Control Systems and Automatic Control
(Editors: Satyam Paul, Davood Khodadad, Rob Turnbull)
30 November 2024 7
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Probability and Statistics Probability, Statistics and Random Processes
(Editor: Velizar Pavlov)
31 August 2024 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Fuzzy Sets, Systems and Decision Making Advanced Methods in Fuzzy Control and Their Applications
(Editors: Cheung Chieh Ku, Chang-Hua Lien)
31 October 2024 8
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Algebra, Geometry and Topology Algebraic Structures and Graph Theory, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Irina Cristea, Alessandro Linzi)
30 September 2024 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Mathematical Physics Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics, 2nd Edition
(Editor: Panayiotis Vafeas)
31 January 2025 8
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