Journal Title
Materials

MATERIALS

ISSN / eISSN
1996-1944
Aims and Scope
Materials (ISSN 1996-1944) is an open access journal of related scientific research and technology development. It publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles) and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Materials provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the in-depth understanding of the relationship between the structure, the properties or the functions of all kinds of materials. Chemical syntheses, chemical structures and mechanical, chemical, electronic, magnetic and optical properties and various applications will be considered.
Subject Area

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING

PHYSICS, APPLIED

CiteScore
5.20 View Trend
CiteScore Ranking
Category Quartile Rank
Physics and Astronomy - Condensed Matter Physics Q2 #125/423
Physics and Astronomy - General Materials Science Q2 #163/453
Web of Science Core Collection
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed -
Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023) Quartile
CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL - SCIE Q3
MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY - SCIE Q3
METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING - SCIE Q2
PHYSICS, APPLIED - SCIE Q2
PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER - SCIE Q2
H-index
83
Country/Area of Publication
SWITZERLAND
Publisher
MDPI (Basel, Switzerland)
Year Publication Started
2008
Annual Article Volume
8955
Open Access
YES
Contact
ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, CH-4052
Verified Reviews
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10.8 The submission was rejected, and the reason was that one of the reviewers, who had the most relevant professional background, rejected the paper twice. They need to respect the reviewers. The comments mentioned that my responses did not completely address the reviewer's questions. However, they also took into consideration the opinions of other reviewers and the improvements made to the manuscript. They encouraged making significant revisions and resubmission.

10.14 Considering resubmission, on one hand, I am worried about the long wait time as I need to use it. On the other hand, I am afraid that it will be sent to the same reviewer who rejected it before. Therefore, I prepared in two ways. One is to prepare for revising and resubmitting, and the other is to send an email to the assistant editor and the office of academic editors to express regret and respect. I reiterated the significant efforts made previously and emphasized that other reviewers provided acceptance suggestions. Then, I refuted each of the rejected reviewer's questions and cited literature as evidence. Lastly, I politely requested whether they could reconsider the handling decision for the manuscript and asked if there were any better suggestions due to the time constraint.

10.16 The article was resubmitted again.
2021-10-27
Different people have different opinions, and wise people have different perspectives. I submitted an article to MDPI's materials journal, but the publication fee was high, and it was unfortunately given a warning. I decided to share my experience of submitting to an open-access journal: I wanted to quickly publish a good article, so I submitted to an MDPI journal. There were four reviewers, and they provided over 40 comments, which were professional and insightful. Personally, I felt that the review process was formal and professional. However, it seems that MDPI, being a Chinese-owned journal, is not well-regarded, and there are some people who have never published articles constantly criticizing it, for unknown reasons.

Similarly, I submitted a relatively mediocre article, with inadequate experiments, to another publishing company's Q2 open-access journal with an impact factor of 5.289. The publication fee was lower at $1000, but the feedback from the two reviewers was mainly about language and terminology issues, lacking substantial comments. In comparison, this review process was easier, but it lacked the professionalism compared to MDPI.

What about PLoS One? Why didn't I receive any warning? Who moved my cheese...
2021-01-13

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