Annual Report 2025

With 2026 already firmly underway, I am pleased to share with you some of the most significant achievements of Magnetism throughout 2025.

I want to begin by offering my heartfelt thanks to the many colleagues whose work made this possible: all the authors who entrusted us with their results; the reviewers who ensured rigorous and constructive assessment; our Editorial Board Members for their steady guidance; and the Managing Editor and Editorial Office for the day-to-day coordination that makes timely, high-quality publication possible.

2025 has been a good year for Magnetism. It marked a clear consolidation milestone not only in visibility but also in the journal’s integration into the main indexing and analytics infrastructures used by our community. The journal was accepted into ESCI—Web of Science (January), a relevant step in establishing discoverability and citation tracking within the Web of Science ecosystem. Shortly after, Magnetism was accepted into Scopus (February), expanding our coverage across an additional major bibliographic platform and facilitating broader integration into institutional and national evaluation workflows. In June, the journal received its first CiteScore (2.0), providing a quantitative, externally visible performance indicator and a baseline against which we can track the future maturation of the journal’s citation impact and field reach.

Beyond indexing and metrics, we also strengthened the journal’s engagement with the magnetism community through targeted activities. For example, Magnetism successfully sponsored the Graduation Poster Award at the XII Brazilian School of Magnetism, supporting early-career researchers through the journal’s role as a community platform for emerging work.

We also expanded our editorial capacity by appointing six new Editorial Board Members, whose expertise spans high magnetic fields, superconductivity, semiconductors, nanoscience, and device-relevant materials. The new EBMs are

• Dr. Zhe Qu, High Magnetic Field Laboratory (CHMFL), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• Prof. Dr. Asle Sudbø, Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
• Prof. Dr. Xiangnan Sun, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China.
• Prof. Dr. Cong Wang, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China.
• Prof. Dr. Kaiyou Wang, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• Prof. Dr. Yong Zhao, (a) Ministry of Education, Superconductivity and New Energy R&D Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; (b) College of Materials and Energy, Guang’an Institute of Technology, China.

With them onboard, Magnetism can reinforce and broaden its ability to handle contributions at the forefront of magnetic materials, devices, characterization under extreme conditions, and emergent cross-disciplinary themes.

Looking ahead to 2026, our priority is to convert these structural achievements into sustained scientific selectivity and influence. Among the actions to be intensified are the raising of standards in process transparency. Specifically, for authors and reviewers, we aim to make peer review more legible, working with explicit criteria for desk decisions. Contributors to Magnetism must be confident that reviewer–expertise matching underpins each peer-review. Also at the core of a trustworthy peer-review experience are the decision communications from the Editorial staff that explain the scientific basis for decisions made and the specific requirements for revision.

We also intend to encourage submissions at the most forefront research related to magnetic phenomena and devices. We will do so through focused topical calls led by field experts and by ensuring rapid, high-quality editorial triage for manuscripts with clear state-of-the-art advances.

A note on what will certainly be (already is) a big issue in the coming years: the impact of AI on how papers can be written and reviewed. Used responsibly, AI can help authors—particularly those for whom English is not a first language—improve clarity and precision. But we have also witnessed how its fast expansion is reflected in our field: there are a growing number of submissions in which its misuse has introduced substantive reporting errors, unintentional plagiarism, or inaccurate (hallucinated) citations. For this reason, Magnetism requires the disclosure of any AI assistance used in the drafting and/or editing processes, and undeclared use may lead to rejection. In peer review, the use of AI for substantive assessment represents a substitution for expert judgment that is inadmissible. Moreover, the review process is confidential, and uploading a manuscript to external AI tools breaches author confidentiality. Accordingly, detection of AI-based reviews in our publication process will result in the reviewer being removed from our database. AI can still be used, but only in limited ways (e.g., to polish the language of reviewer comments) that do not involve the sharing of manuscript content.

In closing, I would like to reiterate my gratitude to everyone who contributed to Magnetism in 2025. Your achievements are clearly reflected in a year of tangible progress. I look forward to working with you throughout 2026 to further develop Magnetism as a trusted, high-visibility venue for rigorous and impactful research in our field. We know that building a prestigious scientific journal takes time, but our progress in that direction is clear. We will continue to make every effort to maintain this momentum in the coming years.