FYI
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Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
From: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk>
To: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk>
Date: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 10:28:56 AM
Subject: [ PSI-K ] MRS Communications - Theory and Simulation of Materials
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Subject: MRS Communications - Theory and Simulation of Materials
Category: Other
From: Nicola Marzari
Date: 10-Mar-2013 14:28
Message:
Dear Psi-k members,
I'm writing to suggest and solicit submissions to a new journal that has been
created by the MRS (the Materials Research Society).
It is called MRS Communications, and it is intended to be the high-profile journal of the
society as, say, PRL is for the Americal Physical Society, or JACS is for the American
Chemical Society.
I have been asked to be the principal editor for the area of Theory and Simulation of
Materials - I've accepted (against a distaste for the proliferation of journals) on
the grounds that the materials modelling community is orphan, in my opinion, of a natural,
high-profile forum where to submit papers that do not fall under the mandate of other
societies (e.g. that of being of broad interest to their respective communities).
In order to focus on quality, rather than urgence, I asked to change the focus of the
journal to "Letters"-like papers as primary target (this change has just been
accepted and implemented - hence this email). Reaching a prestige and impact that is a
match to the prestige and impact of the materials' modelling community will take
time, but I think that for all of us whose primary focus is materials, and in particular
materials' modelling, this, as the high-profile journal of MRS, could be a very
worthy possibility.
The journal aims at an extremely fast turnaround time (14 days from acceptance to
publication), and I am committed to an equally fast editorial process, with referees that
are experts in materials modelling.
I will be present at the DPG meeting in Regensburg, and at the Psi-k get-together, if
anyone is interested in discussing a submission. In addition, I'd welcome proposals
for a forthcoming topical issue on the topic of the "Materials Genome
Initiative" and more broadly of computational materials design and discovery.
All journal information can be found at
http://www.mrs.org/mrc/.
Many thanks for your attention,
Nicola Marzari (EPFL)
PS: as a procedural matter, I asked for approval to the Psi-k governing board before
submitting this message.
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