Publishing advanced materials science with Wiley under the Projekt DEAL “Publish & Read” agreement – How to maximize your success!

Materials science is a multidisciplinary field of research withmany differentscientists and engineers having various backgrounds active in it. The literature landscape consequently is populated currently by a wide range of journals which greatly differ in purpose, scope, quality, and readership. Jos Lenders (Deputy Editor of Adv Mater, Adv Funct Mater, and Adv Optical Mater) and Dimitra Gkogkou (Editor for Adv Funct Mater, Adv Optical Mater, and physica status solidi) will track some of the most important developments and trends in the research field and the Advanced journals program. Advanced Materials reached an Impact Factor of 25.809 and received over 8,400 submissions last year – and Advanced Functional Materials over 10,700. Only around 15% of all those papers made it to publication in these journals, and this rate is similar for all other Advanced journals. So, what do editors do to select the very best papers, and what can authors do to optimize their chances of having their manuscripts accepted? Jos and Dimitra hope to provide some insights into these topics. Key aspects are: structuring one’s research work well and assembling a convincing manuscript, understanding the decision processes in editorial offices, choosing an appropriate journal and knowing what to put in the cover letter, and which things to avoid. The talk will also cover the reasoning behind editorial workflows and the peer-review process, publishing ethics and best practices for authors and reviewers, and possibilities for open access. In addition, the talk will include an update on Projekt DEAL, the “Publish & Read” agreement between Wiley and a consortium of over 700 German universities and research institutes, allowing scientists from those organizations to have access to and publish Open Access in all of Wiley’s journals. Anybody who is enthused about where the field of materials science and its top-level publications will go next is more than welcome to join the seminar and discussion.

Biography Jos:

Dr. Jos Lenders is Deputy Editor of Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and Advanced Optical Materials, and also edits Advanced Therapeutics. He studied chemical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering and a master in polymers and composites at Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands. There he obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD, the latter in the area of bioinspired materials synthesis and electron microscopy. He joined Wiley in 2015.

Biography Dimitra:

Dr. Dimitra Gkogkou studied physics at the University of Thessaloniki and earned a MSc in materials science. In 2013, she moved to Berlin to pursue research opportunities in the fields of plasmonics and spectroscopy, earning her PhD at the Technical University of Berlin and then carrying out post-doctoral research at the Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V. She joined Wiley in 2019 as an Editor for Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, and physica status solidi a/b.

Short abstract:

Jos Lenders (Deputy Editor of Adv Mater, Adv Funct Mater, and Adv Optical Mater) and Dimitra Gkogkou (Editor for Adv Funct Mater, Adv Optical Mater, and physica status solidi) from Wiley will track important trends and developments in materials science publishing and the Advanced journals program. Together, these journals receive more than 100 submissions every day, and only around 15% make it to publication. So, what do editors do to select the very best papers, and what can authors do to optimize their chances of having their manuscripts accepted? Jos and Dimitra hope to provide insight into these topics as well as some tips for your publication strategy. The talk will further include an update on Projekt DEAL, the “Publish & Read” agreement between Wiley and a consortium of over 700 German universities and research institutes, allowing scientists from those organizations to have access to and publish Open Access in all of Wiley’s journals. Anybody who is enthused about where scientific publishing will go next is welcome to join the seminar and discussion.