Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the Metals 2021 Highly Cited Paper Awards, which will recognize the most highly cited paper in the past 2 years. We hope the awards will encourage the publishing of more high-quality papers in Metals. The papers will be selected after thorough evaluation by the Metals Award Committee led by the EiC, Prof. Dr. Hugo F. Lopez, and the winners will be announced in July 2022.

Eligibility for the Awards:
– Papers published in Metals from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the Editorial Office of Metals according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Relevance to the journal’s field;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2021

Prizes:
– One first prize: 800 CHF;
– Two second prizes: 500 CHF each;
– Two third prizes: 300 CHF each;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in July 2022.

Kind regards,
Metals Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Metals 2022 Young Investigator Award is Prof. Dr. Yonggang Yao.

Prof. Dr. Yonggang Yao is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Prof. Yao’s research interests are in high entropy alloys and high temperature metallurgy under extreme conditions (e.g., 3000 K, 1–10 s shock heating), thereby achieving assorted new materials and structures that are otherwise inaccessible. Prof. Yao received his PhD in 2018 and has since developed an outstanding publication record, comprising >100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 11 international patents, with a total citation of >10,000 and a Hirsch index of 53. He is clearly a rising star in the field of innovative metallic materials and metallurgy methods based on the extreme high temperature platform. Prof. Yao is constantly involved in funding applications with two DOE-funded projects (in which he has already participated) and one industry proposal that he has been invited to make and has submitted (as the co-PI) in the USA. After joining HUST, he raised funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key R&D Program of China within one year. This is an impressive achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Yao for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Prof. Yao will receive a bonus of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2022 in Metals after peer review, and a certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Hugo F. Lopez
Editor-in-Chief, Metals

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the winner of the “Metals 2020–2021 Best Cover Award”, the corresponding author of which will receive 500 CHF.

Volume11, Issue 9 (31 August 2021)
On Modelling Parasitic Solidification Due to Heat Loss at Submerged Entry Nozzle Region of Continuous Casting Mold
Alexander Vakhrushev, Abdellah Kharicha, Menghuai Wu, Andreas Ludwig, Yong Tang, Gernot Hackl, Gerald Nitzl, Josef Watzinger and Jan Bohacek
Metals 2021, 11(9), 1375; doi:10.3390/met11091375

You can find the cover and story here: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/9

Please join us in congratulating the authors for their impressive achievement.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for your participation in voting for this award.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the following reviewers have been selected as the winners of the Metals 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Metals Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers to checking the manuscripts submitted to Metals. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround have been maintained. The winners of the Metals 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award are as follows, they will each receive 300 CHF prize:

Dr. Khaled Giasin
University of Portsmouth, UK

Dr. Catalin Pruncu
University of Strathclyde, UK

Dr. Jacek Tomków
Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland

Dr. Alexander Yu Churyumov
National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Russia

Dr. Hesam Pouraliakbar
Chungnam National University, Korea

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. John Campbell
Associate Editor, Metals

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Metals, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Metals 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, which has been granted to:

Laser powder-bed fusion of metallic alloys with enhanced microstructures and properties
By Navid Sohrabi
Thermomechanical Metallurgy Laboratory, PX Group Chair, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Navid Sohrabi will receive CHF 800, a certificate and the opportunity to publish a paper in Metals in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate Navid Sohrabi on his accomplishments. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups for their contributions to Metals, and the Award Committee for their assistance in the evaluation process.

Prof. Dr. Hugo F. Lopez
Editor-in-Chief, Metals

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals and chair of the award committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Metals Travel Awards for 2021.

The awards have been granted to:

Adriana Eres-Castellanos, from the Spanish National Center for Metallurgical Research, is a highly productive Ph.D. student who was awarded by the Spanish Society of Materials at EUROMAT 2019. She will attend and give an oral presentation at the symposium “Study of stress and strain induced martensitic and bainitic transformations during ausforming processes” in CHS².

Pavel Shurkin, a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”. His research focuses on the development of advanced aluminum alloys and processing routes with further industrial application. He will present his research concerning sustainability in aluminium alloys at METAL 2021.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the award committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Hugo F. Lopez, Metals

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce the five winners of Metals 2020 Highly Cited Paper Award to recognize the most highly cited papers in the past two years.

These papers have been selected for this award assessed by the Editorial Office of Metals from the papers published in 2018 and 2019. The paper citation data are based on citations in Web of Science in 2020.

1st Prize (with 49 citations in 2020, 118 citations in total)
A Review of Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys
R. Prakash Kolli, and Arun Devaraj
Metals 2018, 8, 506; https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/8/7/506

2nd Prize (with 22 citations in 2020, 60 citations in total)
A Review of the As-Built SLM Ti-6Al-4V Mechanical Properties towards Achieving Fatigue Resistant Designs
Dylan Agius, Kyriakos I. Kourousis and Chris Wallbrink
Metals 2018, 8, 75; https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/8/1/75

2nd Prize (with 20 citations, 41 citations in total)
3D Printing of Highly Pure Copper
Thang Q. Tran, Amutha Chinnappan, Jeremy Kong Yoong Lee, Nguyen Huu Loc, Long T. Tran, Gengjie Wang, Vishnu Vijay Kumar, W. A. D. M. Jayathilaka, Dongxiao Ji, Mrityunjay Doddamani and Seeram Ramakrishna
Metals 2019, 9, 756; https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/9/7/756

3rd Prize (with 20 citations, 30 citations in total)
Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Stainless Steel Grades: A Review
Chiara Zitelli, Paolo Folgarait and Andrea Di Schino
Metals 2019, 9, 731; https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/9/7/731

3rd Prize (with 19 citations, 42 citations in total)
Advanced Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
Massoud Malaki, Wenwu Xu, Ashish K. Kasar, Pradeep L. Menezes, Hajo Dieringa, Rajender S. Varma and Manoj Gupta
Metals 2019, 9, 330; https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/9/3/330

These five outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Metals. On behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, we would like to congratulate these five teams for their excellent work. In recognition of their accomplishment, the first prize team will be granted 800 CHF, the two second prize teams will be granted 500 CHF, and the two third prize teams will be granted 300 CHF.

Metals Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the following reviewers have been selected as the winners of the Metals 2020 Outstanding Review Awards. The Metals Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Metals. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Dr. Srecko Stopic
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Dr. Khaled Giasin
University of Portsmouth, UK

Dr. Pura Alfonso Abella
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Dr. Aleksandra Świerczyńska
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Dr. Davide Mombelli
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Hugo F. Lopez
Editor-in-Chief, Metals

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2020 Metals Travel Award:

Jae-Kyung Han, from Oregon State University, is a highly productive Ph.D. student who has been involved in several research projects related to the fabrication and characterization of bulk nanostructured metallic materials. He will attend and give an oral presentation at the symposium: “Ti-Alloys and Structural Metallic Materials for the Aerospace Industry” in THERMEC’2020.

Michele Dallago, from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento. His research focuses on the mechanics of cellular materials and an investigation of the static and fatigue behavior of cast iron. He will present his two works concerning the fatigue properties of SLM lattice and the fatigue of cast iron in Fatigue2020.

Please join me in congratulating them for their achievements. Each Awardee will receive 800 Swiss Francs towards their participations in these international conferences.

Hugo F. Lopez,
Editor-in-Chief

It is our great pleasure to announce the winners of Metals 2019 Highly Cited Paper Award to recognize the most highly cited paper in the past two years. The prize started in the middle of 2020 and it has been awarded three winners.

There papers have been selected for this award assessed by the Editorial Office of Metals from the papers published in 2017 and 2018. The paper citation data are based on citations in Web of Science in 2019.

1st Prize (with 42 citations)
Corrosion-Resistant High-Entropy Alloys: A Review
Yunzhu Shi, Bin Yang, and Peter K. Liaw
Metals 2017, 7, 42; doi:10.3390/met7020043
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/7/2/43


2nd Prize (with 22 citations)
The Prospects of Zinc as a Structural Material for Biodegradable Implants—A Review Paper
Galit Katarivas Levy, Jeremy Goldman, and Eli Aghion
Metals 2017, 7, 402; doi:10.3390/met7100402
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/7/10/402

3rd Prize (with 18 citations)
A Review of Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys
R. Prakash Kolli and Arun Devaraj
Metals 2018, 8, 506; doi:10.3390/met8070506
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/8/7/506

These three outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Metals. On behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, we would like to congratulate these three teams for their excellent work. In recognition of their accomplishment, the first prize team will be granted 600 CHF, the second prize team will be granted 400 CHF, and the third prize team will be granted 300 CHF.

Metals Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

Anonymous peer-reviewing guarantees the quality and integrity of scholarly communication. However, the Metals editorial team is extremely grateful to our reviewers for their time, energy, professionalism, and commitment. In order to acknowledge our reviewers and the time they so generously give to ensure high-quality publications in Metals, the editorial team has dedicated an award to reviewers in gratitude for their exceptional dedication in reviewing manuscripts for Metals.

The following reviewers have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Office of Metals to receive the “Metals Outstanding Reviewers 2019” awards for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019.

Dr. Antonio Riveiro
Applied Physics Department, School of Engineering, University of Vigo, Lagoas Marcosende s/n, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

Prof. Francisco J. G. Silva
ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal

Dr. Javier Aldazabal
University of Navarra, Spain

Prof. Jose Diaz
Energy Department, University of Oviedo. c/ Wifredo Ricart, 33204 Gijón, Spain

Dr. Maciej Motyka
Department of Materials Science/R&D Laboratory for Aerospace Materials, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland

Each winner will receive 300 Swiss Francs, a 50% discount for next publication in Metals, and an electronic certificate.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Metals Young Investigator Award offered by the Metals journal this year (2019) to the most outstanding young investigator in the field of metals research.

Dr. Enrique Galindo-Nava has being unanimously elected by the awards committee as the winner of this award as his successful trajectory clearly shows it. An evaluation of his accomplishments clearly indicates that his career as a young scientist is full of merit and highly competitive challenges where he has shown outstanding performance. He has received multiple awards from highly reputable organizations and research entities. His excellent scholarship is evident from his high performance at Cambridge University where he received a fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering for five years from January 2017. His work has been focused on disclosing fundamental aspects of plastic deformation and he has multiple publications in highly reputable journals in materials science and engineering. His work covers a wide number of topics of current importance including hydrogen embrittlement, structural materials for aerospace applications, computational materials and simulation of plasticity, among others. In addition, Dr. Enrique Galindo-Nava has been actively involved in collaborating with companies of high prestige such as Rolls-Royce. Therefore, I am confident that Dr. Enrique Galindo-Nava has a bright future as a scientist and as an academic is the clear winner.

I think he has outstanding potential as an academic and with the award of the RAE is on the brink of a successful academic career. He is exceptionally talented in his scientific insight, hardworking, efficient and an inspirational and reliable colleague. Congratulations on a well-deserved award.

Hugo F. Lopez,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Metals Travel Award:

Daria Zhemchuzhnikova, from Université de Lorraine is a highly prolific Ph.D. student with numerous relevant projects in Materials Science and Engineering, particularly related to high strength Al-Mg- Si alloys. She is familirand skillful in the use of analytical techniques and equipment for research purposes and has presented her work in various international conferences. She has written 4 patents and possesses numerous achievements and awards. In addition, her list of publications is impressive with 20 papers already published or in the processes of being published. Therefore, I gladly congratulate Daria Zhemchuzhnikova for her outstanding performance as she truly deserves the travel award from MDPI for 2017-18 offered to Ph.D. applicants.

Martin Diehl, from Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung GmbH has been actively involved in theoretical aspects of crystal plasticity. Through is career, he has been investigating the mechanical properties of aerospace alloys and has received awards in for his work on crystal plasticity simulations and for his expertise in mechanical engineering and materials science. He is the author of over 20 articles in highly recognized journals such as the International Journal of Platicity. It is my pleasure to congratulate Martin Diehl on being the elected postdoc travel award winner from MDPI for 2017-18.

Hugo F. Lopez,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Travel Award sponsored by Metals:

The Travel Award is granted to Dr. Ahmad Talaat, a post-doctoral fellow at Faculty of Chemistry, Material Physics Department, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs.

From the applications received, it is obvious that there was a large pool of highly qualified candidates that deserve this award. Given the fact that only one award was available, it was not a simple task to select the winner for this year. In the election process, an experienced committee closely examined the applicants’ submitted documents, and ranked them based on strong research productivity and performance merit. From the outcome of this exercise Ahmad Talaat was ranked by three out of four committee members (including the Editor-in-Chief) as the winner of this year’s award. Please join me in congratulating Ahmad Talaat for a well-deserved prize.

Hugo F. Lopez
Editor-in-Chief