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Materials 3.4 5.8 Advanced Composites Interactive Fiber Rubber Composites—Volume II
(Editors: Chokri Cherif, Thomas Gereke)
20 November 2024 3
Materials 3.4 5.8 Advanced Composites Recent Advances in Conductive and Electrical Insulating Polymer Composites
(Editor: Pengfei Fang)
20 October 2024 5
Materials 3.4 5.8 Advanced Composites Advances in Experimental Investigation and Computational Modeling of Fiber Reinforced Polymers and Composites
(Editors: Aliakbar Gholampour, Togay Ozbakkaloglu)
20 December 2024 2
Materials 3.4 5.8 Advanced Materials Characterization The 15th Anniversary of Materials—Recent Advances in Advanced Materials Characterization
(Editors: Sanichiro Yoshida, Luciano Lamberti, Giuseppe Lacidogna)
20 December 2024 7
Materials 3.4 5.8 Manufacturing Processes and Systems Sustainable Materials from Industrial Waste
(Editors: Isabel Padilla, Maximina Romero, Aurora López-Delgado)
10 October 2024 8
JMSE 2.9 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 2.7 4.2 Liquid Crystals Liquid Crystal Research and Novel Applications in the 21st Century
(Editor: Ingo Dierking)
30 July 2024 4
Crystals 2.7 4.2 Biomolecular Crystals New Advances in Protein Crystallography
(Editors: Rocco Caliandro, Benedetta Carrozzini)
10 November 2024 1
Cells 6.0 9.9 Cell Motility and Adhesion Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis
(Editors: Wen G. Jiang, Qingping Dou)
15 September 2024 6
Biomedicines 4.7 5.2 Neurobiology and Clinical Neuroscience Emerging Research in Neurorehabilitation
(Editor: Manuel Gaviria)
31 December 2024 5
IJERPH - 7.3 Global Health Adolescent Nutrition and Health
(Editors: Stefania Ruggeri, Laura Censi)
31 July 2024 6
IJERPH - 7.3 Global Health Suicide in Asia and the Pacific
(Editors: Harry Minas, Erminia Colucci)
13 August 2024 8
IJERPH - 7.3 Global Health Advances in Indigenous and American Indian and Alaska Native Health and Wellness
(Editors: Claradina Soto, Amy E. West)
31 December 2024 7
IJERPH - 7.3 Global Health Work and Occupational Health: Focus on Gender, Youth and New Labor Inequalities
(Editors: Esteban Agulló-Tomás, Sara Menéndez-Espina, José Antonio Llosa)
30 September 2024 3
Energies 3.2 6.2 D: Energy Storage and Application Review Papers in Energy Storage and Related Applications
(Editor: Massimo Guarnieri)
17 September 2024 7
Inorganics 2.9 2.8 Coordination Chemistry Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series in “Featuring Ligands and Their Applications in Coordination Chemistry”
(Editors: Debbie Crans, David Morales-Morales)
31 October 2024 9
Inorganics 2.9 2.8 Bioinorganic Chemistry Rational Design of Pharmacologically Active Metal-Based Compounds
(Editors: Irena Kostova, Luciano Saso)
31 August 2024 5
Inorganics 2.9 2.8 Organometallic Chemistry Research on Ferrocene and Ferrocene-Containing Compounds
(Editors: Mojca Čakić Semenčić, Lidija Barišić)
31 July 2024 4
Microorganisms 4.5 7.4 Gut Microbiota Gut Microbiota and Nutrients 2.0
(Editor: Seong-Tshool Hong)
31 October 2024 5
Sensors 3.9 7.3 Internet of Things Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart City
(Editors: Guisong Yang, Yutong Liu, Linghe Kong)
25 December 2024 7
Sensors 3.9 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
Forests 2.9 4.4 Forest Ecology and Management Ecosystem-Disturbance Interactions in Forests
(Editors: Camilla Wellstein, Roberto Tognetti, Daniel Scherrer)
20 December 2024 2
Forests 2.9 4.4 Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science Forest Ecosystem Services and Landscape Design - Series II
(Editor: Radu-Daniel Pintilii)
25 January 2025 10
Forests 2.9 4.4 Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Forestry
(Editors: Guojie Wang, Zengxin Zhang)
15 July 2024 10
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Inorganic Chemistry Metal Complexes as Potential Antimicrobial and Antiproliferative Agents
(Editor: Mihaela Badea)
31 July 2024 6
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Inorganic Chemistry Exclusive Feature Papers in Inorganic Chemistry 2.0
(Editors: Andrea Bencini, Vito Lippolis)
31 December 2024 26
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Analytical Chemistry Applications of Solid-Phase Microextraction and Related Techniques
(Editor: Hiroyuki Kataoka)
31 August 2024 8
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Analytical Chemistry Advances in Pharmaceutical Analytical Technologies
(Editor: Alexis Oliva)
30 November 2024 6
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Nanochemistry Featured Reviews in Nanochemistry
(Editor: Adrian Keller)
31 December 2024 2
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Chemical Biology Themed Issue in Honor of Carlos Gutiérrez Merino: Forty Years of Research Excellence in the Field of Membrane Proteins and Bioenergetics
(Editors: Alejandro Samhan-Arias, Manuel Aureliano, Carmen Lopez-Sanchez)
20 August 2024 13
Technologies 3.6 6.7 Information and Communication Technologies IoT-Enabling Technologies and Applications
(Editor: Xavier Fernando)
20 July 2024 1
Technologies 3.6 6.7 Information and Communication Technologies Data Science and Big Data in Biology, Physical Science and Engineering II
(Editor: Mohammed Mahmoud)
30 September 2024 1
Foods 5.2 7.4 Meat Green Processing Technology of Meat and Meat Products Volume II
(Editors: Jinxuan Cao, Changyu Zhou)
19 August 2024 8
Materials 3.4 5.8 Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Recent Advances in Nanomaterials for Optoelectronic Devices
(Editors: Lin Wang, Junyong Wang)
30 June 2024 1
Materials 3.4 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 3.4 5.8 Catalytic Materials In Situ Technology in Single-Atom Catalysis: Moving the Limits of Application
(Editor: Imgon Hwang)
20 June 2024 0
Materials 3.4 5.8 Catalytic Materials High-Efficient Electrocatalytic Materials
(Editor: Wenjie Jiang)
20 November 2024 1
Materials 3.4 5.8 Carbon Materials Carbon Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Applications
(Editor: Ying Wu)
20 October 2024 2
Foods 5.2 7.4 Food Analytical Methods Techniques for Food Authentication: Trends and Emerging Approaches—Volume II
(Editors: Margit Cichna-Markl, Isabel Mafra)
30 June 2024 3
Children 2.4 2.7 Global and Public Health Nutrition to Improve Child and Adolescent Health
(Editor: Valérie Marcil)
30 June 2024 7
Geosciences 2.7 5.3 Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry: Latest Developments and Applications for Geosciences
(Editor: William M. White)
30 November 2024 0
Minerals 2.5 4.1 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Industrial Minerals Flotation–Fundamentals and Applications
(Editors: Xuming Wang, Jan D. Miller)
31 August 2024 2
Minerals 2.5 4.1 Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology Constraining the Timing and Setting of Gold Mineralization from Accessory Phase Minerals
(Editors: Simon P Johnson, Imogen OH Fielding)
30 June 2024 0
Processes 3.5 5.1 Chemical Processes and Systems 10th Anniversary of Processes: Design of the Chemical Industry of the Future
(Editor: Fausto Gallucci)
10 July 2024 7
Processes 3.5 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)
15 July 2024 13
Materials 3.4 5.8 Materials Chemistry Synthesis, Modeling, Physico-Chemical and Biological Properties of Metal Complexes
(Editor: Monika Kalinowska)
30 June 2024 1
Agronomy 3.7 6.2 Crop Breeding and Genetics Utilizing Genetic Resources for Agronomic Traits Improvement: Series II
(Editors: Fernando Martinez-Moreno, Magdalena Ruiz, María B. Picó, María-José Díez)
30 June 2024 12
Agronomy 3.7 6.2 Soil and Plant Nutrition Use of Humic Substances and Biostimulants for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture
(Editor: Diego Pizzeghello)
30 September 2024 8
Agronomy 3.7 6.2 Farming Sustainability Effective Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Agriculture
(Editor: Koffi Djaman)
30 June 2024 8
Electronics 2.9 5.3 Power Electronics Innovative Technologies in Power Converters, Volume II
(Editors: Aitor Vázquez Ardura, Diego Gonzalez Lamar)
30 November 2024 6
Electronics 2.9 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 15
Electronics 2.9 5.3 Microwave and Wireless Communications Antenna Designs for 5G/IoT and Space Applications, Volume II
(Editors: Faisel Tubbal, Ladislau Matekovits, Raad Raad)
16 July 2024 8
Electronics 2.9 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 2.9 5.3 Networks Recent Advances in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
(Editors: Binod Vaidya, Byung Rae Cha)
15 September 2024 7
Electronics 2.9 5.3 Systems & Control Engineering High Performance Control and Industrial Applications
(Editors: Luis Gomes, Weichao Sun, Weiyang Lin)
15 October 2024 14
Energies 3.2 6.2 C: Energy Economics and Policy Energy Efficiency Assessments and Improvements
(Editors: Inga Konstantinaviciute, Viktorija Bobinaite, Vaclovas Miškinis, Saulius Gudžius, Daiva Dumciuviene)
30 December 2024 10
Catalysts 3.9 6.8 Catalysis in Organic and Polymer Chemistry Recent Applications of Metal Catalysts in Organic Synthesis, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Cyril Nicolas, Isabelle Gillaizeau)
31 August 2024 1
Brain Sciences 3.3 4.8 Neural Engineering, Neuroergonomics and Neurorobotics EEG and Event-Related Potentials
(Editor: Peter Walla)
18 November 2024 5
Brain Sciences 3.3 4.8 Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging Insight in the Application of Rehabilitation Devices in Neurological Disease
(Editor: Maria Cristina De Cola)
25 October 2024 2
Brain Sciences 3.3 4.8 Neurolinguistics Neurofunctional Basis of Language Processing
(Editor: Roozbeh Rezaie)
25 August 2024 6
JCM 3.9 5.7 Obstetrics & Gynecology Breast Cancer: Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment
(Editor: Rita De Sanctis)
16 July 2024 5
JCM 3.9 5.7 Oncology High-Risk Neuroblastoma: New Clinical Insights and Challenges
(Editors: Rupert Handgretinger, Johannes Hubertus Schulte)
20 November 2024 7
JCM 3.9 5.7 Ophthalmology Advances in Glaucoma Management and Intraocular Pressure Physiology
(Editor: Kevin Gillmann)
15 July 2024 15
JCM 3.9 5.7 Ophthalmology Advances in Ophthalmic Imaging
(Editor: Ulrich Kellner)
30 July 2024 9
JCM 3.9 5.7 Orthopedics Latest Advances in Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis
(Editor: Gunther Maderbacher)
31 July 2024 12
JCM 3.9 5.7 Pulmonology Clinical Advances in Allergy and Asthma: Issues, Strategies, and Future Directions
(Editor: Laura Pini)
25 July 2024 9
Materials 3.4 5.8 Corrosion Surface Engineering & Coating Technologies for Corrosion and Tribocorrosion Resistance—Volume II
(Editor: Yong Sun)
10 October 2024 4
Mathematics 2.4 4.0 Engineering Mathematics Mathematical and Computational Models of Cognition
(Editor: Ronaldo Vigo)
01 December 2024 5
Mathematics 2.4 4.0 Mathematical Biology Current Research in Biostatistics
(Editors: Miguel Ángel Montero-Alonso, Juan De Dios Luna del Castillo)
30 June 2024 8
Electronics 2.9 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 20
Electronics 2.9 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 2.9 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 2.9 5.3 Semiconductor Devices Advanced Electronic Packaging Technology
(Editor: Daquan Yu)
30 June 2024 4
Electronics 2.9 5.3 Artificial Intelligence Advances in the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) and IoT in the Primary Sector
(Editors: Nikos Petrellis, Nikolaos Voros, Christos P. Antonopoulos)
31 July 2024 6
Electronics 2.9 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 2.9 5.3 Artificial Intelligence AI Technologies and Smart City
(Editors: Young Im Cho, Agostino Cortesi, Eric Matson, Khalid Saeed)
16 September 2024 9
Mathematics 2.4 4.0 Network Science Neural Networks and Their Applications
(Editor: Mario Muñoz Organero)
30 June 2024 7
Animals 3.0 4.9 Equids Advances in Equine Neonatal Care
(Editors: Pamela A. Wilkins, Annette Marie McCoy)
25 September 2024 0
Animals 3.0 4.9 Animal Welfare Care and Well-Being of Laboratory Animals
(Editor: Stephanie Krämer)
25 July 2024 6
Animals 3.0 4.9 Animal Physiology Exploring Stress Responses in Farm Animals: A Focus on Physiological and Behavioral Aspects
(Editors: Désirée Gellatly, Tiago da Silva Valente)
30 June 2024 0
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Physiology and Metabolism Signaling-Mediated Plant Responses to Nutrient-Limited Stress
(Editors: Byung-Kook Ham, Jieyu Chen)
10 July 2024 0
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Physiology and Metabolism Plant Water Relations: New Solutions for Ancient Challenges
(Editors: Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín, Domingo Sancho-Knapik, José Javier Peguero-Pina)
30 June 2024 0
Plants 4.5 6.5 Phytochemistry Natural Products in Plants: Synthesis, Analysis and Bioactivity
(Editors: Alberto Minassi, Federica Pollastro)
31 July 2024 0
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions New Horizons in Plant–Microbe Interactions
(Editors: Martin Černý, Veronika Hyskova)
30 June 2024 4
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions Plant–Animal Interactions: Exploring Costs and Benefits in Highly Conditional Relationships
(Editor: Kleber Del-Claro)
30 June 2024 13
Plants 4.5 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 June 2024 11
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions Plant Chemical Ecology
(Editors: Chui-Hua Kong, Yonggen Lou, Peng Wang, Guoxin Zhou)
31 December 2024 7
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Molecular Biology Molecular Insights into Cotton Fiber Gene Regulation
(Editors: Yuxian Zhu, Fuguang Li)
30 June 2024 1
Plants 4.5 6.5 Plant Development and Morphogenesis Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Root Growth Behavior
(Editors: Patrick Masson, Shih-Heng Su)
30 June 2024 2
Energies 3.2 6.2 A4: Bio-Energy Pyrolysis and Gasification of Biomass and Waste II
(Editor: Grzegorz Czerski)
20 July 2024 10
Energies 3.2 6.2 E: Electric Vehicles Advanced Solutions for the Efficient Integration of Electric Vehicles in Electricity Grids
(Editors: Evangelos Karfopoulos, Michele Roccotelli, Ioannis Karakitsios)
25 September 2024 8
Animals 3.0 4.9 Poultry Coccidiosis in Poultry: Current Thinking on Eimeria spp., Host–Parasite Relationships, and Potential for Advancements in Control
(Editor: Kenneth Bafundo)
30 June 2024 8
JCM 3.9 5.7 Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine Current Challenges in Clinical Dentistry
(Editors: Eiji Tanaka, Susumu Abe)
25 September 2024 10
JCM 3.9 5.7 Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine Current Challenges in Oral Surgery
(Editor: Christian Bacci)
05 July 2024 9
Molecules 4.6 7.4 Macromolecular Chemistry Exclusive Feature Papers in Macromolecular Chemistry
(Editor: Ivan Gitsov)
31 December 2024 10
Foods 5.2 7.4 Sensory and Consumer Sciences Consumer Behavior and Food Choice—Volume III
(Editor: Cristina Calvo-Porral)
15 September 2024 12
Remote Sensing 5.0 8.3 Environmental Remote Sensing Photogrammetry – the Science of Precise Measurements from Images: A Themed Issue in Honour of Professor Emeritus Armin Grün in Anticipation of His 80th Birthday
(Editors: Fabio Remondino, Devrim Akca, Rongjun Qin)
31 July 2024 8
Vaccines 7.8 8.9 Vaccines against Infectious Diseases 2nd Edition of Vaccines against Pneumococcal Infection
(Editor: Alan Cross)
25 September 2024 4
Vaccines 7.8 8.9 Vaccines against Infectious Diseases Bacterial and Viral Immunity and Vaccination
(Editor: Martin R. Goodier)
31 August 2024 8
Vaccines 7.8 8.9 Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy Vaccines Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment: Challenges and Future Prospects
(Editors: Walter J. Storkus, Devin Lowe)
30 November 2024 1
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