Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in peer-reviewed special issues of:
- Engineering Failure Analysis
- International Journal of Structural Integrity
The following guidance has been developed with the consensus of the editor-in-chief of the journals:
1. Papers submitted to Special issues
Will go through the rigorous peer-review process with the same standard as for regular submissions;
It MUST contain about 50% new content compared to the conference papers.
2. It is the editors’ decision on whether or not the extended content is considered to be sufficient.
3. Authors should submit their conference papers as supplementary documents.
A selection of papers presented during the N. TC21 Thematic/Special Symposium with a round table and panel discussion, “Hydrogen embrittlement of metals: Problems and solutions”, ICSI 2023, will be invited for publication in a Special Issue (SI) of the Engineering Failure Analysis (EFA) journal by Elsevier (2022: CiteScore 6.3, Impact Factor 4).
The SI will also include the selected and invited papers presented at the Thematic/Special Symposium with a round table and panel discussion – TC21 “Hydrogen Embrittlement”, ICSI2023.
The SI Guest Editors are:
- Tom Depover (Tom.Depover@ugent.be), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- May Martin, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Hisao Matsunaga, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Milos B. Djukic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Serbia
The selected authors of papers presented at the Thematic Symposium TC21 “Hydrogen Embrittlement”, during ICSI2023, will be invited by the SI Guest Editors to submit the full papers for publication in the SI of EFA. The decision will be made by TC21 “Hydrogen Embrittlement” symposium organizers and the SI Guest Editors quickly after the ICSI2023 conference. The selected authors will be informed and invited by email.
The mandatory requirement is: The content of the full paper for the SI must contain more than 50% new stuff to be accepted in comparison to the original research contribution – a short version paper published in the ICSI2023 proceedings: “Procedia Structural Integrity” journal. The extended full paper for the SI could have a completely different title It is the editors’ decision on whether or not the extended content is sufficient. Authors should submit their conference papers as supplementary documents. Invited papers submitted to the SI will go through a rigorous peer-review process with the same standard as regular submissions.