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Journal IF Cite Score Section Title | Editors Submission Deadline Articles
Gases - - (none) Gas Emissions from Combustion Sources
(Editors: Cinzia Tornatore, Andrea De Filippo)
30 June 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
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
Alloys - - (none) Design of New Metallic Alloys for AM
(Editor: Pavel Krakhmalev)
31 December 2025 6
AI 3.1 7.2 (none) Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
(Editor: Arslan Munir)
30 April 2025 17
Electronic Materials - 2.8 (none) Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Electronic Applications
(Editors: Ana Rovisco, Jorge Martins, Asal Kiazadeh)
30 June 2025 5
Infrastructures 2.7 5.2 (none) Advances in Dam Engineering of the 21st Century
(Editors: Jerzy Salamon, Hasan Tosun, M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili, Russell Michael Gunn, Zeping Xu, Camilo Marulanda E.)
31 May 2025 10
Alloys - - (none) High-Entropy Alloys
(Editors: Peter Hodgson, Daniel Fabijanic, Jithin Joseph)
31 December 2025 1
Ecologies 1.7 1.8 (none) Plant Communities: Identification, Monitoring and Evaluation of Temporal Dynamics
(Editor: Ram C. Sharma)
30 April 2025 6
Infrastructures 2.7 5.2 (none) Bridge Modeling, Monitoring, Management and Beyond
(Editor: Ekin Ozer)
30 September 2025 9
Air - - (none) Indoor Air Quality: Airborne Disease Measurement, Control, Mitigation and Disinfection
(Editors: Ling Tim Wong, Veronica Wai Yee Chan)
30 April 2025 2
Atoms 1.7 2.7 (none) Advances in Ion Trapping of Radioactive Ions
(Editor: Maxime Brodeur)
30 May 2025 9
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
EJIHPE 3.0 4.4 (none) Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Health Field or Education
(Editor: Hyunsu Lee)
30 April 2025 14
Tomography 2.2 2.7 (none) Feature Reviews for Tomography 2023–2024
(Editor: Emilio Quaia)
30 April 2025 4
Risks 2.0 3.8 (none) Applied Financial and Actuarial Risk Analytics
(Editors: Tak Kuen Ken Siu, Hailiang Yang)
31 May 2025 8
IJFS 2.1 3.7 (none) Accounting and Financial/Non-financial Reporting Developments
(Editors: Graça Azevedo, José Vale)
25 August 2025 9
IJFS 2.1 3.7 (none) Sustainable Investing and Financial Services
(Editor: Michael C. S. Wong)
20 May 2025 6
BioChem - - (none) Plant-Derived Bioactive Molecules and Their Use in Sports Practice
(Editors: Guglielmo Duranti, Piergiorgio La Rosa)
30 September 2025 0
Nursing Reports 2.4 2.5 (none) Self-Management of Chronic Disease
(Editor: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob)
30 June 2025 7
Pharmacy 2.0 - (none) Women's Special Issue Series: Pharmacy and Pharmacists
(Editors: Maree Donna Simpson, Cheryl A. Sadowski, Daisy Volmer)
31 October 2025 3
Nursing Reports 2.4 2.5 (none) Nursing Innovation and Quality Improvement
(Editor: Ashley Shepherd)
31 May 2025 12
Epigenomes 2.5 3.8 (none) Histone Variants
(Editor: Chunyuan Jin)
30 April 2025 3
JAL - - (none) Quality of Life among Older Adults: Lifestyle Differentiation and Associated Factors
(Editors: Julie Brown, An Dinh)
31 October 2025 4
Dietetics - - (none) Vitamin D in the New Decade: Facts, Controversies, and Future Perspectives for Daily Clinical Practice
(Editor: Spyridon N. Karras)
25 August 2025 0
Recycling 4.6 6.8 (none) Emerging Technologies in the Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Critical Metals
(Editor: Ana Paula Paiva)
30 June 2025 7
JAL - - (none) Aging in Place: Supporting Older People's Well-Being and Independence
(Editor: Gordana Dermody)
31 May 2025 4
Vision - 2.3 (none) Effects of Optical and Behavioral Factors on the Ocular Accommodation Response
(Editors: Beatriz Redondo Cabrera, Niall Hynes)
31 July 2025 2
Water 3.0 5.8 (none) Innovative Trends to Reshape the Water Science, Technology and Engineering
(Editor: Helena M. Ramos)
20 June 2025 3
Geometry - - (none) Feature Papers in Geometry
(Editor: Yang-Hui He)
31 December 2025 3
AppliedMath - - (none) Algebraic Combinatorics in Data Science and Optimisation
(Editor: Takayuki Hibi)
31 July 2025 0
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 Physical Sensors Smart Sensing Technologies for Human-Centered Healthcare: Research and Applications
(Editors: Thanasis Tsanas, Andreas Triantafyllidis, Asimina Kiourti, Siddharth Arora)
30 June 2025 10
IJERPH - 7.3 Global Health Adolescent Nutrition and Health
(Editors: Stefania Ruggeri, Laura Censi)
31 July 2025 6
Energies 3.0 6.2 D: Energy Storage and Application Review Papers in Energy Storage and Related Applications
(Editor: Massimo Guarnieri)
30 June 2025 9
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Internet of Things Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart City
(Editors: Guisong Yang, Yutong Liu, Linghe Kong)
25 September 2025 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)
31 August 2025 12
Forests 2.4 4.4 Forest Ecology and Management Ecosystem-Disturbance Interactions in Forests
(Editors: Camilla Wellstein, Roberto Tognetti, Daniel Scherrer)
31 July 2025 3
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Inorganic Chemistry Metal Complexes as Potential Antimicrobial and Antiproliferative Agents
(Editor: Mihaela Badea)
31 December 2025 7
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 2025 8
Foods 4.7 7.4 Food Analytical Methods Techniques for Food Authentication: Trends and Emerging Approaches—Volume II
(Editors: Margit Cichna-Markl, Isabel Mafra)
30 September 2025 5
Geosciences 2.4 5.3 Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry: Latest Developments and Applications for Geosciences
(Editor: William M. White)
31 May 2025 1
Minerals 2.2 4.1 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Industrial Minerals Flotation—Fundamentals and Applications
(Editors: Xuming Wang, Jan D. Miller)
20 June 2025 7
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 2025 27
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)
16 June 2025 10
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Artificial Intelligence AI Technologies and Smart City
(Editors: Young Im Cho, Eric Matson)
15 June 2025 14
Plants 4.0 6.5 Phytochemistry Natural Products in Plants: Synthesis, Analysis and Bioactivity
(Editors: Alberto Minassi, Federica Pollastro)
31 August 2025 0
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)
30 April 2025 15
Molecules 4.2 7.4 Macromolecular Chemistry Exclusive Feature Papers in Macromolecular Chemistry
(Editor: Ivan Gitsov)
30 June 2025 18
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)
10 June 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)
31 August 2025 5
Biology 3.6 5.7 Bioinformatics Multi-omics Data Integration in Complex Diseases
(Editors: Min Zhao, Ruifeng Hu, Dario Di Silvestre)
30 April 2025 16
Biology 3.6 5.7 Immunology Immune Response Regulation in Animals
(Editors: Rong Gao, Hua-Ji Qiu)
30 June 2025 11
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Optical Sensors Optical Sensing Technologies for Food Quality and Safety
(Editors: J. Paul Robinson, Euiwon Bae)
20 December 2025 6
Diversity 2.1 3.4 Plant Diversity Aquatic Plant Diversity, Conservation, and Restoration
(Editors: Danelle Larson, Eva Papastergiadou)
31 July 2025 7
Antioxidants 6.0 10.6 ROS, RNS and RSS Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants―2nd Edition
(Editors: Francisco J. Corpas, Rosa M. Rivero, José M. Palma)
15 July 2025 3
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Physics and Theory Theoretical and Computational Polymers Science: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
(Editor: Hector Eduardo Roman)
25 July 2025 12
Dentistry Journal 2.5 3.7 Digital Technologies Feature Papers in Digital Dentistry
(Editors: Luigi Canullo, Maria Menini, Paolo Pesce)
30 June 2025 18
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 C2: Dynamical Systems Applied Mathematical Modelling and Dynamical Systems, 2nd Edition
(Editors: José Leonel Linhares da Rocha, Daniele Fournier-Prunaret)
31 December 2025 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 E: Applied Mathematics Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
(Editor: Anna Sciomachen)
30 June 2025 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 E: Applied Mathematics Advances in Control Systems and Automatic Control
(Editors: Satyam Paul, Davood Khodadad, Rob Turnbull)
30 June 2025 11
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 E: Applied Mathematics Multiscale Mathematical Modeling
(Editors: Julius Kaplunov, Igor Andrianov)
01 June 2025 9
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 E: Applied Mathematics Computational Intelligence in Addressing Data Heterogeneity
(Editor: Haifeng Wang)
31 May 2025 1
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 E4: Mathematical Physics Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics, 2nd Edition
(Editor: Panayiotis Vafeas)
30 June 2025 14
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 May 2025 8
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 2025 10
Cells 5.1 9.9 Cells of the Nervous System New Advances in Neuroinflammation
(Editors: John W. Chen, Michael Breckwoldt)
15 May 2025 14
Crystals 2.4 4.2 Inorganic Crystalline Materials Advances in Low-Dimensional Materials for Electronics and Sensing Applications
(Editors: Hu Li, Klaus Leifer)
30 December 2025 11
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites Epoxy Polymers and Composites
(Editors: Zhengguang Heng, Yang Chen, Huawei Zou)
30 September 2025 5
Electronics 2.6 5.3 Industrial Electronics Electromechanical Actuators and Sensors Targeting Mechatronics in the Smart Industry
(Editors: Junghwan Chang, Sarbajit Paul, Anindya Nag)
15 May 2025 7
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination Understanding Immune Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines
(Editor: Federico De Marco)
31 July 2025 10
Materials 3.1 5.8 Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses Glasses and Ceramics for Luminescence Applications (2nd Edition)
(Editor: Haohong Chen)
20 March 2026 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 35
Viruses 3.8 7.3 Human Virology and Viral Diseases Virological and Immunological Factors Underlying HBV Functional Cure and HBV Reactivation
(Editor: Valentina Svicher)
30 June 2025 0
Cells 5.1 9.9 Cellular Biophysics Modeling Developmental Processes and Disorders in Zebrafish
(Editors: Natascia Tiso, Francesco Argenton)
31 May 2025 12
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Alloys and Composites: Structural and Functional Applications, Second Edition
(Editor: Wei Guo)
20 May 2025 11
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Characterization, Properties, and Applications of New Metallic Alloys
(Editors: Weimin Wang, Ki Buem Kim)
20 August 2025 6
Foods 4.7 7.4 Drinks and Liquid Nutrition Influence of the Raw Materials and Beverage Processing on Volatile, Bioactive, and Sensory Profiles of the Final Product
(Editors: Raquel Rodríguez Solana, Anabela Romano, Ludovina Galego)
31 October 2025 0
Materials 3.1 5.8 Polymeric Materials Fabrication, Characteristics and Applications of Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites
(Editor: Jianhua Zhang)
20 November 2025 1
Pediatric Reports 1.4 2.1 Inborn Errors and Neonatal Screening Global Neonatal Screening: Expanding Horizons in Diagnostic Technologies
(Editor: Victoria Kain)
30 September 2025 5
Games 0.6 1.6 Applied Game Theory Applications of Game Theory to Industrial Organization
(Editors: Marco A. Marini, Riccardo D. Saulle, Giorgos Stamatopoulos)
30 September 2025 9
Games 0.6 1.6 Non-Cooperative Game Theory Fairness in Non-cooperative Strategic Interactions
(Editors: Ramzi Suleiman, Amnon Rapoport, Vernon Smith, Guillermina Jasso)
30 November 2025 6
Processes 2.8 5.1 Separation Processes Green Separation and Purification Processes
(Editors: Inês Portugal, Carlos Manuel Silva, José Aniceto)
20 August 2025 8
Sci - 4.5 Biology Research and Life Sciences One Health
(Editor: Mark A. Brown)
31 December 2025 3
Batteries 4.6 4.0 Battery Modelling, Simulation, Management and Application Machine Learning for Advanced Battery Systems
(Editors: Benben Jiang, Guannan He, Xiang Chen)
31 July 2025 9
Batteries 4.6 4.0 Battery Performance, Ageing, Reliability and Safety Artificial Intelligence-Based State-of-Health Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries—2nd Edition
(Editors: Remus Teodorescu, Xin Sui)
20 May 2025 9
TropicalMed 2.8 3.9 Travel Medicine Challenges and Prevention Strategies for Travel-Related Infectious Diseases
(Editor: Loukas Kakoullis)
20 May 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)
30 June 2025 4
QuBS 1.3 2.8 Engineering and Structural Materials Quantum Beam and Its Applications for Quantum Technologies
(Editor: Takeshi Ohshima)
31 July 2025 4
IJERPH - 7.3 Behavioral and Mental Health Children’s Care, Health, and Development
(Editor: Mathilde Sengoelge)
30 April 2025 5
IJERPH - 7.3 Behavioral and Mental Health Public Health Consequences of Social Isolation and Loneliness
(Editors: Ami Rokach, David Berman)
30 June 2025 14
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