PEER REVIEW

All Initial Full Papers submitted will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 independent professionals.

The peer review process can reject the papers, approve or conditionally approve them (with suggestions for modifications and/or clarifications by the authors). After the peer review process, the authors submit the Final version of the paper(s).

PUBLICATIONS

The final submitted papers will be published in Official Publication Volumes which, similarly to all previous publications (www.flogen.org/books ) will

1. Contain official ISBN numbers
2. Contain official ISSN numbers
3. Be legally deposited at Library and Archives, Canada (Government of Canada)

And available through many indexes such as Scopus, EI index, Google Scholar, CiteSeerX etc The Publication CD will be available for free to the authors and attendees of the symposium that have paid the registration fees.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

Numerous papers from the symposium will be subsequently published in special dedicated numbers of reputable professional journals including:

• Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy (UK):
  - http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/mpm
• Corrosion Reviews, de Gruyter:
  - http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/corrrev
• Surface Engineering:
  - http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/sur
• Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences:
  - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/bsms20/current#.Uzl1p_ldV8F
  - http://sigmund.mse.ufl.edu
• Open Chemistry :
  - http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/chem

NOTE: the list of the reputable journals to be completed shortly

INDEXES

All peer papers published in this proceeding will be cited by SCI or EI.