EDITORIAL

This issue of Materials Research contains twenty four articles, including a session with eleven papers about carbon materials, selected from submissions in the period 2007-2008. The rejected/accepted ratio continues to fluctuate at around 40-50%. Several articles are being reviewed at present.

And the good news is: Materials Research has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for the following products beginning with volume 11(1) 2008: Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) including the Web of Science, ISI Alerting Service and Materials Science Citation Index (MSCI). These are the most traditional article databases and allow one to search articles by title, keyword, author name, or affiliation, and also show article citations. Beyond any doubt, with this new indexation Materials Research became much more attractive to all kinds of authors.

Materials Research is also indexed by the Chemical Abstracts, World Ceramic Abstracts, International Pool of Glass Abstracts, the powerful SCOPUS (www.scopus.com/scopus/home.url), and is published in electronic format at Scielo (www.scielo.br/mr).

Our electronic submission system has been operational since June 2008. We seize this opportunity to invite the members of the editorial board, authors and readers of Materials Research to submit their next paper at: http://matres.submitcentral.com.br. We hope to further decrease the publication time with the online submission system.

We gratefully acknowledge the Brazilian funding agency CNPq for covering the editorial and printing costs of this issue of Mat. Res. The financial support from Department of Materials Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos (DEMa/UFSCar) for mailing expenses; the Vitreous Materials Laboratory (LaMaV/UFSCar) for fax and telephone expenses are also acknowledged. Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM) and Associação Brasileira de Polímeros (ABPol) cover the editorial assistant's salary. The secretaries of the Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica - ABC, ABPol, and ABM have helped advertising Materials Research and managing its subscriptions and financial resources.

Edgar Dutra Zanotto

Editor-in-chief

September 25, 2008

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