Aims and scope
Ferroelectrics Letters is a separately published section of the international journal Ferroelectrics. Both sections publish theoretical, experimental and applied papers on ferroelectrics and related materials, including ferroelastics, ferroelectric ferromagnetics, electrooptics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics, nonlinear dielectrics, polymers and liquid crystals.
Ferroelectrics Letters permits the rapid publication of important, quality, short original papers on the theory, synthesis, properties and applications of ferroelectrics and related materials.
Peer Review
All Submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and if found suitable for further consideration, will be peer-reviewed by independent and anonymous expert referees.
CrossRef Similarity Check
Please note that Ferroelectrics uses CrossRef Similarity Check™ (Powered by iThenticate) to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to the journal you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
The Institute of Scientific Information Journal Citations Report for 2003 ranks Ferroelectrics Letters 44th out of 57 journals in Physics, Condensed Matter (Science), with an impact factor of 0.556.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 5K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.338 (2023) SNIP
- 0.184 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
George W. Taylor (Editor-in-Chief: 1983-2023)
Princeton Resources
P.O. Box 211
Princeton, New Jersey 08542-0211, U.S.A
Editor
Deborah J. Taylor
Crawley Research Associates
3300 Bee Cave Road Suite 650-226
Austin, Texas 78746, U.S.A
Associate Editors
Amar S. Bhalla
Department of Electrical Computer Engineering
University of Texas, San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249 USA
Yoshihiro Ishibashi
Professor Emeritus
Nagoya University
Nagoya, 466-0815 Japan
Sidney B. Lang
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva 84120, Israel
Jan Petzelt
Inst. of Physics
Liben Na Slovance 2
180 40 Prague 8
Czech Republic
Alexander Sigov
Moscow Technological University (MIREA)
78 Vernadsky Avenue
119454 Moscow, Russia
Koichi Toyoda
Research Institute of Electronics
Shizuoka University
Hamamatsu, 432 Japan
Book Review Editor
S.C. Abrahams
Physics Department
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, Oregon 97520, USA
Review Articles Editor
Amar S. Bhalla
Department of Electrical Computer Engineering
University of Texas, San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249 USA
Editorial Board
A.J. Bell - Leeds, UK
C.L. Choy - Hong Kong
J.A. Eiras - Sao Carlos, Brasil
V.M. Fridkin - Moscow, Russia
A. Lopez Garcia - La Plata, Argentina
A.M. Glass - Murray Hill, New Jersey
M.D. Glinchuk - Kiev, Ukraine
J.A. Gonzalo - Madrid, Spain
S. Gridnev - Voronezh, Russia
P. Günter - Zurich, Switzerland
R. Guo - San Antonio, Texas, USA
G.H. Haertling - Albuquerque, New Mexico
B. Hilczer - Poznan, Poland
N. Ichinose - Tokyo, Japan
V. Janovec - Prague, Czech Republic
T. Janssen - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
A. Kholkin - Aveiro, Portugal
W. Kleeman - Duisburg, Germany
J. Kobayashi - Tokyo, Japan
S. Kojima - Tsukuba, Japan
S. Lagerwall - Göteborg, Sweden
R. Le Bihan - Nantes, France
M. Maglione - Bordeaux, France
K.A. Müller - Zürich, Switzerland
A. Onodera - Sapporo, Japan
C.A. Paz de Araujo - Colorado Springs, Colorado
J. Petersson - Saarbüucken, Germany
K. Roleder - Katowice, Poland
G. Salamo- Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
V.H. Schmidt - Bozeman, Montana
J.F. Scott - Cambridge, U.K.
N. Setter - Lausanne, Switzerland
V.Ya. Shur - Ekaterinburg, Russia
W.A. Smith - Arlington, Virgina
A. Sternberg - Riga, Latvia
T.-Y. Tseung - Hsinchu, Taiwan
K. Uchino - University Park, Pennsylvania
T. Volk - Moscow, Russia
Y. Xi - People’s Republic of China
Abstracting and indexing
Ferroelectrics Letters is currently abstracted/indexed in:
- Chemical Abstracts Service
Chemical Abstracts (Online)
- EBSCOhost (various)
- Elsevier BV
Compendex
Scopus
- Genamics JournalSeek
- OCLC
ArticleFirst
Electronic Collections Online
- Ovid
Inspec - Personal Alert (Email)
- ProQuest (various)
- The Engineering Index Monthly (DVD)
- Clarivate Analytics
Current Contents
Science Citation Index Expanded
Web of Science
- World Ceramics Abstracts (Online)
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Open access
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