Discontinued publication in 2018.
“Materials Science and Applied Chemistry” is an open access journal published once a year: in May in print and electronically. Articles are assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier) whereby it becomes possible to search and cite them without delay. Journal covers research in different branches of chemistry and chemical technology, biotechnology, materials science, physics and biomechanics. The manuscripts submitted for consideration should contain new results and previously unpublished material.
The manuscripts are accepted in English. The submissions should be made electronically at [email protected] and comply with the Requirements for Manuscripts Published in the Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University “Materials Science and Applied Chemistry”.
The submitted manuscripts are single-blind peer-reviewed by an expert in the relevant field. The authors are provided with feedback. After the peer review the managing editor assesses the paper’s suitability for publication in the journal and informs the authors about the decision.
After the article has been accepted for publication it goes to the production editor. The production editor makes any necessary corrections and sends the proof to the author for approval. There are no publication charges.
The authors are asked to sign License to Publish governed by the Creative Commons Attribution license in which the author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
All articles published in the journal are archived in the OA repository of Riga Technical University. The print version of the journal is published by RTU Press – the publishing house of Riga Technical University.
Journal history
From the beginning of the journal in 2013, it was published by RTU Press. Starting from January 2015 till December 2017 the journal was published by De Gruyter Open.
And starting from January 2018 journal is again published by RTU Press.