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Submission guidelines

Our 3-step submission process

  1. Before you submit

    Before you submit, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following.

  2. Ready to submit

    To give your manuscript the best chance of publication, follow these editorial policies and formatting guidelines.

  3. Submit and promote

    After acceptance, we provide support so your article gains maximum impact in the scientific community and beyond.

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Abstracted and Indexed in

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
EI Compendex
SCOPUS
TD Net Discovery Service
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
Portico
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
Naver
Google Scholar
EBSCO Discovery Service
Dimensions
DOAJ
CNPIEC
CNKI
CLOCKSS

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 9.0
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 9.1
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 3.815
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 2.363

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 9
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 138

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 227,675
    Altmetric mentions: 64