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Journal IF Cite Score Section Title | Editors Submission Deadline Articles
Trauma Care - - (none) Exercise and Sport-Related Injuries: Rehab and Readapt
(Editor: Daniel Rojas-Valverde)
30 June 2025 3
Atoms 1.7 2.7 (none) Advances in Ion Trapping of Radioactive Ions
(Editor: Maxime Brodeur)
30 November 2024 5
Pediatric Reports 1.4 2.1 Pediatric Psychology Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders of Children and Adolescents
(Editor: Artemis K. Tsitsika)
30 April 2025 6
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Development and Morphogenesis Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Root Growth Behavior
(Editors: Patrick Masson, Shih-Heng Su)
30 January 2025 2
Pathogens 3.3 6.4 (none) Women’s Special Issue Series: Pathogens
(Editors: Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Nicola Carter)
30 September 2024 11
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Dynamical Systems Applied Mathematical Modelling and Dynamical Systems, 2nd Edition
(Editors: José Leonel Linhares da Rocha, Daniele Fournier-Prunaret)
30 April 2025 5
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 2024 8
Processes 2.8 5.1 Separation Processes Green Separation and Purification Processes
(Editors: Inês Portugal, Carlos Manuel Silva, José Aniceto)
20 December 2024 8
IJERPH - 7.3 Behavioral and Mental Health Public Health Consequences of Social Isolation and Loneliness
(Editors: Ami Rokach, David Berman)
30 June 2025 14
Virtual Worlds - - (none) Networked Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality Systems
(Editors: Jorge C. S. Cardoso, Thiago Malheiros Porcino)
30 November 2024 4
Antioxidants 6.0 10.6 Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants in Neurodegenerative Disorders 2nd Edition
(Editor: Marco Tulio Núñez)
30 September 2024 6
Microorganisms 4.1 7.4 Gut Microbiota Gut Microbiota and Nutrients, 2nd Edition
(Editor: Seong-Tshool Hong)
31 October 2024 7
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Vaccines against Tropical and other Infectious Diseases 2nd Edition of Vaccines against Pneumococcal Infection
(Editor: Alan Cross)
25 September 2024 4
Chemistry 2.4 3.2 Inorganic and Solid State Chemistry Lanthanoid and Actinoid Complexes
(Editors: Spyros Perlepes, Sokratis T. Tsantis)
30 September 2024 0
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 December 2024 2
Recycling 4.6 6.8 (none) Emerging Technologies in the Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Critical Metals
(Editor: Ana Paula Paiva)
31 January 2025 2
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Algebra, Geometry and Topology Algebraic Structures and Graph Theory, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Irina Cristea, Alessandro Linzi)
30 September 2024 10
Genealogy 0.8 0.4 Genealogical Communities: Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Racial, and Multi-National Genealogies Tracking Asian Diasporic Experiences
(Editor: Philip Q. Yang)
31 December 2024 3
Plants 4.0 6.5 Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change Role of Aquaporins in Stress Responses of Woody Plants
(Editors: Janusz J. Zwiazek, Maryamsadat Vaziriyeganeh)
20 December 2024 0
Minerals 2.2 4.1 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Industrial Minerals Flotation—Fundamentals and Applications
(Editors: Xuming Wang, Jan D. Miller)
28 February 2025 3
Crystals 2.4 4.2 Biomolecular Crystals New Advances in Protein Crystallography
(Editors: Rocco Caliandro, Benedetta Carrozzini)
10 November 2024 1
Risks 2.0 3.8 (none) Applied Financial and Actuarial Risk Analytics
(Editors: Tak Kuen Ken Siu, Hailiang Yang)
31 December 2024 3
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
Ecologies 1.7 1.8 (none) The Ecology of Rivers, Floodplains and Oxbow Lakes
(Editors: Volker Lüderitz, José Ramón Arévalo Sierra)
28 February 2025 8
Pathogens 3.3 6.4 Bacterial Pathogens New Insight in Pathogenic Escherichia coli: Infections, Pathogenesis and Therapies
(Editor: Bogdan Nowicki)
30 September 2024 7
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.)
28 February 2025 7
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 2024 5
Photonics 2.1 2.6 Optical Interaction Science Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Nonlinear Photonics
(Editors: Luigi Sirleto, François Sanchez, Yan Feng)
10 November 2024 8
Nutrients 4.8 9.2 Nutrition Methodology & Assessment Innovative Strategies for Preventing Nutrition-Related Chronic Diseases
(Editors: George Moschonis, Tina Cao)
05 October 2024 4
Medicina 2.4 3.3 Dentistry and Oral Health Recent Advances in Periodontics and Dental Implantology: Part II
(Editor: Jun-Beom Park)
30 September 2024 11
Administrative Sciences 3.0 4.8 (none) Navigating Global Sustainability Compliance Challenges: The Role of Organizational Change Strategies
(Editor: Francesco Ceresia)
30 September 2024 1
Water 3.0 5.8 Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems Anthropogenic and Climatic Disturbances in Aquatic Ecosystems: Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Effects
(Editor: Stefano Cozzi)
20 December 2024 4
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
IJERPH - 7.3 Behavioral and Mental Health Tobacco Use, Vaping, Heating, Nicotine Dependence, Smoking Cessation, and Public Health
(Editors: Klaas F. Franzen, Daniel Drömann)
30 September 2024 5
Plants 4.0 6.5 Phytochemistry Natural Products in Plants: Synthesis, Analysis and Bioactivity
(Editors: Alberto Minassi, Federica Pollastro)
28 February 2025 0
Materials 3.1 5.8 Energy Materials Advanced Photovoltaic Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
(Editor: Deying Luo)
20 December 2024 2
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 1
Diversity 2.1 3.4 (none) 2024 Feature Papers by Diversity’s Editorial Board Members
(Editor: Michael Wink)
31 December 2024 24
Agronomy 3.3 6.2 Soil and Plant Nutrition Use of Humic Substances and Biostimulants for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture
(Editor: Diego Pizzeghello)
30 September 2024 8
Mathematics 2.3 4.0 Algebra, Geometry and Topology Differentiable Manifolds and Geometric Structures
(Editor: Adara M. Blaga)
31 October 2024 20
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination Understanding Immune Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines
(Editor: Federico De Marco)
31 July 2025 3
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Human Papillomavirus Vaccines Vaccine Strategies for HPV-Related Cancers
(Editor: Diane M. Harper)
01 November 2024 11
Horticulturae 3.1 3.5 Vegetable Production Systems Breeding by Design: Advances in Vegetables
(Editor: Yuyang Zhang)
20 October 2024 5
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Physical Sensors Advances in Particle Detectors and Radiation Detectors
(Editors: Ismael Martel Bravo, Olof Tengblad)
05 December 2024 12
Materials 3.1 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 9
Energies 3.0 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 9
Genealogy 0.8 0.4 (none) The Manifestation and Contestation of White Privilege in Multiracial Families
(Editor: Chandra D.L. Waring)
30 September 2024 2
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Applications Gel-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Treatment
(Editors: Haoan Wu, Xingchun Gao)
30 September 2024 10
Agronomy 3.3 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)
31 December 2024 15
Risks 2.0 3.8 (none) Life Insurance and Pensions: Latest Advances and Prospects
(Editors: Pierre Devolder, Massimiliano Menzietti)
31 October 2024 4
Electricity - 4.8 (none) Advances in Operation, Optimization, and Control of Smart Grids
(Editors: Murilo E.C. Bento, Hugo Morais)
31 January 2025 0
Vision - 2.3 (none) Effects of Optical and Behavioral Factors on the Ocular Accommodation Response
(Editors: Beatriz Redondo Cabrera, Niall Hynes)
31 January 2025 1
Materials 3.1 5.8 Energy Materials Design and Characterization of Energy Catalytic Materials
(Editors: Gang Cheng, Chao Han, Florian J. Stadler)
20 November 2024 3
JFB 5.0 4.6 Antibacterial Biomaterials Antibacterial Materials: Recent Advances in Methodologies and Regulations
(Editors: Claudia Vineis, Alessio Varesano)
31 December 2024 8
Laws 1.3 2.0 Human Rights Issues Rethinking Human Rights
(Editor: Jason Rudall)
31 December 2024 1
Veterinary Sciences 2.0 2.9 (none) One Health Special Issue on the Occasion of the One Health Day
(Editors: Patrick Butaye, Samson Mukaratirwa)
16 October 2024 1
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)
30 September 2024 8
Gels 5.0 4.7 Gel Analysis and Characterization Food Gels: Structure and Properties
(Editor: Hongjie Dai)
30 September 2024 9
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 2024 6
Vaccines 5.2 8.9 Veterinary Vaccines Vaccines and Animal Health
(Editors: Matteo Legnardi, Claudia Maria Tucciarone)
31 January 2025 8
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Optical Sensors Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Technologies and Applications
(Editors: Martin Litzenberger, Gaetan Calbris, Bernd Drapp)
25 March 2025 10
Dentistry Journal 2.5 3.7 (none) Feature Papers to Celebrate the First Impact Factor of Dentistry Journal
(Editors: Claude Jaquiéry, Patrick R. Schmidlin)
31 December 2024 43
Anatomia - - (none) Anatomy for Modern Urology
(Editor: Olivier Cussenot)
15 December 2024 3
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
Photonics 2.1 2.6 Optical Communication and Network Advanced Technologies in Optical Wireless Communications
(Editors: Cuiwei He, Chen Chen)
15 October 2024 9
Minerals 2.2 4.1 Biomineralization and Biominerals Biomineralization and Biominerals: Lessons from Mineral-Producing Organisms, 2nd Edition
(Editors: Oluwatoosin Agbaje, Olev Vinn)
28 February 2025 2
Dietetics - - (none) Vitamin D in the New Decade: Facts, Controversies, and Future Perspectives for Daily Clinical Practice
(Editor: Spyridon N. Karras)
15 December 2024 0
Materials 3.1 5.8 Carbon Materials Carbon Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Applications
(Editor: Ying Wu)
20 October 2024 3
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
BioChem - - (none) Feature Papers in BioChem
(Editors: Buyong Ma, Manuel Aureliano)
31 December 2024 2
Cells 5.1 9.9 Cells of the Cardiovascular System Role of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Cardiovascular Disease
(Editors: Alejandra San Martin, Claire Holden)
15 October 2024 9
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 6
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
Cells 5.1 9.9 Cells of the Nervous System New Advances in Neuroinflammation
(Editors: John W. Chen, Michael Breckwoldt)
20 December 2024 9
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Corrosion Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials
(Editor: Xiaogang Li)
20 January 2025 4
Horticulturae 3.1 3.5 Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology Research Progress on Ripening and Postharvest Biology of Horticulture Crops
(Editors: Xuewu Duan, Xiaochun Ding, Guoxiang Jiang)
31 October 2024 4
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
Sensors 3.4 7.3 Sensor Networks UAV and Sensors Applications for Navigation and Positioning
(Editors: Yongbo Zhang, Yuhang Li)
15 November 2024 9
Animals 2.7 4.9 Aquatic Animals The Innate Immune Responses of Fish to Infectious Diseases
(Editors: Lora Petrie-Hanson, Adef Kordon)
15 April 2025 1
Brain Sciences 2.7 4.8 Neural Engineering, Neuroergonomics and Neurorobotics EEG and Event-Related Potentials
(Editor: Peter Walla)
18 November 2024 8
Antioxidants 6.0 10.6 Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress Oxidative-Stress in Human Diseases—3rd Edition
(Editor: Soliman Khatib)
31 October 2024 5
Micromachines 3.0 5.2 (none) Micromachines Research and Development in North America
(Editors: Sima Noghanian, Negar Ebadi, George Shaker)
30 October 2024 4
Chemistry 2.4 3.2 Chemistry of Materials Design of Liquid Crystalline Soft Matter for Modern Applications beyond Liquid Crystal Displays
(Editor: Matthias Lehmann)
31 December 2024 0
Materials 3.1 5.8 Metals and Alloys Alloys and Composites: Structural and Functional Applications (Volume II)
(Editor: Wei Guo)
10 October 2024 7
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
Forests 2.4 4.4 Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science Forest Ecosystem Services and Landscape Design: 2nd Edition
(Editor: Radu-Daniel Pintilii)
25 January 2025 11
Photonics 2.1 2.6 (none) Advances in Ultrafast Optics: From Fundamental Science to Applications
(Editors: Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto)
15 November 2024 2
Symmetry 2.2 5.4 Mathematics Feature Papers in Mathematics Section
(Editor: Calogero Vetro)
31 December 2024 5
Nursing Reports 2.4 2.5 (none) Nursing Innovation and Quality Improvement
(Editor: Ashley Shepherd)
31 May 2025 4
JAL - - (none) Quality of Life among Older Adults: Lifestyle Differentiation and Associated Factors
(Editors: Julie Brown, An Dinh)
31 October 2025 2
Photonics 2.1 2.6 Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Photonics Sensors
(Editors: Carlos Marques, Flavio Esposito)
10 December 2024 24
Water 3.0 5.8 Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems Contemporary Threats to Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems
(Editors: Iga Lewin, Andrzej Zawal)
20 January 2025 0
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 10
Polymers 4.7 8.0 Polymer Physics and Theory Theoretical and Computational Polymers Science: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
(Editor: Hector Eduardo Roman)
25 January 2025 4
Viruses 3.8 7.3 Animal Viruses Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses
(Editor: Shafiqul Chowdhury)
30 November 2024 0
Actuators 2.2 3.9 Actuators for Robotics Rehabilitation Robots and Assistive Devices: A Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Dr. Rory A. Cooper
(Editors: Jonathan Duvall, Jorge L. Candiotti, Brad Duerstock, Jongbae Kim)
30 September 2024 10
Administrative Sciences 3.0 4.8 (none) AI, Tokenization, and FinTech: Implications of Governance Issues
(Editors: Seoungpil Ahn, Young Kim)
31 December 2024 3
Brain Sciences 2.7 4.8 Psychiatric Diseases Clinical Research on Addiction Psychiatry: Opportunities and Challenges
(Editor: Mark S. Gold)
20 October 2024 2
Fossil Studies - - (none) Advances in Palaeontology—Feature Papers to Celebrate the Inaugural Issue of Fossil Studies
(Editors: Eric Buffetaut, Dany Azar)
31 December 2024 7
AppliedMath - - (none) Algebraic Combinatorics in Data Science and Optimisation
(Editor: Takayuki Hibi)
31 July 2025 0
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