Qatar University (QU) has announced that Emergent Materials (EM), a multi-disciplinary journal launched in association with Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco), has been indexed by the prestigious Web of Science after assessing the quality, number, and characteristics of papers published.
Web of Science is a platform for literature used to search databases to support the world’s most trusted citation index for scientific and scholarly research.
EM aims to provide a publication source to the growing community of materials scientists - chemists, engineers, physicists, and researchers who are involved in doing research in materials science and engineering.
The goal is to publish a series of high-quality and high impact research articles that reflect and bring the best research to the forefront in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering of advanced materials, to the international research community.
The founder of the journal, Prof Mariam Ali al-Maadeed, vice president, Research and Graduate Studies, said, “QU is replete with many distinguished journals published under the umbrella of the Qatar University Press.
“Accepting of EM in the Web of Science is a great moment and beneficial towards the journal’s quality assessment. This indexing will certainly enhance the reputation and add on to the trust for the journal by the scientific community to submit their top research articles to EM.”
Editor-in-chief, Karim Alamgir, Dow Chair Professor, University of Houston, US, extended his wishes by saying: “We have great news for the scientific community — EM is now indexed by Web of Science! This is indeed a reflection of the first-rate papers that were published in the last two years, and we wish to thank the many authors for their high-quality papers that have contributed to this success story.
“We hope they will continue to publish their best research in EM and encourage their peer colleagues to do so as well”
Dr Kishor Kumar, managing editor said: “Web of Science indexing is a pivotal achievement for our journal, and this success tremendously reflects our quality of professionalism due to the choosing of this journal by the scientific community.
“It will also assure researchers on the quality of the journal and for other members of the scientific community.”
QU has constantly invested in strengthening infrastructure support for materials research.
There are around 100 faculty members and researchers affiliated with conducting research in the materials and nanotechnology areas.
These researches span several colleges and centres/institutes.