Advances in Science and Technology - Details

Advances in Science and Technology (AST) is conference series which includes peer-reviewed outcomes from Materials Science and Engineering related conferences and symposiums from all over the world. Published proceedings include engineering papers, review paper and papers about new materials research, development and application, its research, processing, and practical use in various areas of production and engineering.
Papers submitted for publication in AST cannot be published or sent for publication elsewhere.
Authors retain the right to publish an extended, significantly updated version in another periodical.

Publishing Ethics: Academic Research:
Publishing Ethics: Academic Research Statement can be found following this link.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement:
Publication Policy and Ethics, and Publication Malpractice Statement can be found here.
Papers submitted in Advances in Science and Technology (AST) cannot be published or sent for publication elsewhere. Multiple submission and redundant publication is prohibited. Authors allowed to preserve pre-prints in arXiv and ChemRxiv and in case of publication of their paper in AST, authors should update pre-print by linking it to corresponding paper's DoI. Authors retain the right to publish an extended, significantly updated version in another periodical.
Each submitted paper in Advances in Science and Technology (AST) is a subject of obligatory peer-review by at least two independent external reviewers in the area of scientific research.
Detailed peer-review process and peer-review policy can be found here.
Advances in Science and Technology (AST) is fully owned by Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
Advances in Science and Technology (AST) publishes in hybrid model. Publisher's copyrighted papers are published online. The standard copyright agreement can be found here. Authors have optional possibility to publish their papers under the Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) license at APC Euro 1450 or at waived institutional rates (see details here). Data sharing and/or reproducibility is done individually in line with copyright agreement or Creative Commons license.
Each submitted paper is a subject of plagiarism check via iThenticate, as well as eligibility with international standards and requirements. All allegations of research misconduct in published papers, including but not limited by plagiarism, authorship, citation manipulation, data falsification, etc., are subject of responsibility of Trans Tech Publications and editors and processed following COPE's guidelines.

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Scopus
Google Scholar
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
ProQuest
Ulrichsweb
EBSCOhost Research Databases
Zetoc
Index Copernicus Journals Master List
WorldCat (OCLC)
CEABA
Poly
STEC

Conference Organizers are invited to publish selected peer-reviewed full-text research papers and reviews in the series. Please ask for additional information: [email protected]

Publication schedule: 14 volumes per year