Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale: Announcements

Information about the Journal: Let’s talk about money and open access

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:43:59 +0000

Short 2022 report about Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale:

Submitted papers: 508
Accepted papers: 137
Rejection rate: 73% (94% in the last three months!)

We are grateful for the help of editors, members of the editorial boards, reviewers and, obviously, authors: it is only thanks to this wonderful community that it was possible for Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale to improve year after year its quality and its usefulness for our community.

This amazing result was possible only to their help and … to money! Money is not for salaries (nobody is paid in our journal… we are all volunteers!) but it is necessary for the publication of the papers.

According to Google, “Diamond Open Access refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers. Diamond Open Access journals are community-driven, academic-led, and academic-owned publishing initiatives”.

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is a “diamond” open access journal.

But the publication of an OA paper has a cost … considering the cost of Journal website maintenance, templates and plug-ins, DOIs, Crossref, Plagiarism check software, Reviewers acknowledgment service, Flipping book software and miscellanea, the final amount is about 12000 euros per year.

For the Gruppo Italiano Frattura (IGF, the journal publisher) the only way to publish the journal is to find about 12000 euros per year. The “business model” adopted by IGF is really simple:

IGF organizes conferences (with really low fees);
The money collected with the fees is completely used for the conferences organization and for the journal.

For this reason, if you love Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale and the possibility it offers to our community to publish papers with a good quality standard (without APC!), join the events organized by IGF!

The next event organized by IGF is IGF27, the 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity (February 22-24, 2023)

The registration and abstract submission deadline is not far! Join us and enjoy the conference and the journal! Ciao

Information about the Journal: Article Review Acknowledgement - NEW

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 05:09:19 +0000

Dear friends,
We wish to thank all our reviewers for their help. Their crucial activity is already acknowledged with "Clarivate" (formerly Publons) and "Reviewer Credits" (you found the links at the end of the reviewing process).
Starting from December 2022, we offer our reviewers the further possibility to obtain an immediate reviewer certificate and 10 euros of discount for the fees of the events that will be organized by IGF in 2023 (discounts are cumulable and can be used only for one event): LINK.

This is only a small reward to confirm our appreciation for the time and effort you spent on your review.
Thank you so much for being part of our community!

By the way, don't forget the next IGF event:

IGF27, the 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity

(February 22-24, 2023)

The event will be held at the Engineering Faculty of Rome "Sapienza", but remote participation will be also allowed (all the remote participants will be allowed to participate to all the sessions and discussion).

Please, don't forget that IGF conferences allow to Frattura ed integrità Strutturale to be a "diamond" open access journal, with no fees to either readers or authors... so... join us in Rome (or in remote!). Ciao

Francesco

Conferences: IGF27 - 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:44:27 +0000

IGF27 (27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity) will be held in Rome, Italy, and online on February 22-24, 2023.
The main information about the event are:

Event title: IGF27 - 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity;
Dates: February 22-24, 2023;
Website: www.igf27.eu
Deadlines: the first one is 20.12.2022 (Registration and Abstract submission);
Venue (in presence participation): Rome, Italy, Faculty of Engineering (via Eudossiana 18);
Remote participation: Yes, it is possible ... but you are all warmly invited to join us in presence!
Proceedings: They will be published in a dedicated issue of Procedia Structural Integrity;
Fees: the same fees since 2004! LINK.

Information about the Journal: Journal Telegram Channel

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:40:49 +0000

Dear friends,
we are delighted to introduce you the renewed FIS Telegram channel:
https://t.me/FIS_Journal
Join the channel!
It will be used to spread info about Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale - Fracture and Structural Integrity and about the Gruppo Italiano Frattura (IGF) activities and to stream events!
For example, now, the FIS section "Online first" is also available as a really nice and captivating post in the Telegram channel: LINK
All the accepted papers will be gradually added to this post, avoiding you any problems with spam checker and allowing you to be always up to date and ... to help the journal to improve the quality of the published papers (e.g., sending additional comments about the papers in the "Online first" section before their final publication!).

Join the FIS Telegram channel... soon other "surprises" will be available!

Obivously, do not hesitate to consider the papers published in Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale - Fracture and Structural Integrity for your references!
In 2021 the paper has been classified in SJR as a Q2 journal in three different categories (Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials) ... with your help, a further improvement is always possible.

Finally, I wish to remember the last journal improvement: since june 2022, the papers plagiarism/self-plagiarism is checked using iThenticate. This will help the journal to further improve the quality of the published papers!
Francesco

Information about the Journal: Suggest reviewers

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:44:28 +0000

Now Authors can suggest one or more reviewers. Please add in the dedicated field, for each suggested reviewer:

Name, surname, Email address, Affiliation, Country

Please, consider that:

Suggested reviewers with the same affiliation of the authors will not be accepted;
Suggested reviewers with different nationalities are warmly suggested

Please, consider that a preliminary check will always performed checking:

plagiarism/autoplagiarism.
the paper topic: either "fracture" or "Structural Integrity" (... or both!) must be sufficiently evident.

Information about the Journal: Browsable version and Visual Abstracts

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 05:15:06 +0000

Dear friends,

all the issues of "Frattura ed integrità Strutturale" (Fracture and Structural Integrity) in their browsable version are available here: LINK.

In addition, since issue 45 (July 2018), all the papers are published with their "Visual Abstract", a 2 minutes presentation with the "core" of the published paper. Well, I have the pleasure to inform you that now, in the browsable version, all the Visual Abstracts are linked to the papers in a really nice and captivating way... please, try both on pc and on mobile devices. Thank you for your help

Francesco

Information about the Journal: NEWS ABOUT "FRATTURA ED INTEGRITA' STRUTTURALE" - SEPTEMBER 2020

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:56:43 +0000

Dear friends,
we are happy to announce two new features for "Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale":
- it is now possible to post comments to all the papers published in the journal. It is sufficient to login with your credentials, select the paper of your interest, and, at the bottom of the page (under "Comments"), you find the field to be filled. We hope that useful discussions will be open in our community.
- since our first issue, we adopted the "blind peer review" procedure for all our papers. Well, we decided to activate a supplementary (and experimental) reviewing procedure. After the "regular" peer review process, accepted papers are available in the "Online first" section. All the readers are encouraged to send (via email to gruppofrattura@gmail.com) suggestions for possible improvements or comments. The deadline to send the suggestions or the comments will be 15 days before the issue publishing date.
- we announce the publication of the new (and charming!) journal website dedicated to the browsable versions of the published issues: LINK.

Hoping these new features will be appreciated, we have two other information to be spread:
- after the last OJS update, we are experiencing some problems with the papers statistics. We are so sorry for the problem and we hope it will be soon solved.
- do not hesitate to cite the papers published in Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale. We try to do our best to improve the journal quality and usefulness, but the only way to improve our "numbers" in Citescore etc is to cite our papers!
Wishing you and your families all the best ... be safe! Ciao!
Francesco

Information about the Journal: Frattura ed Integrita' Strutturale and Scopus

Sat, 30 May 2020 06:47:58 +0000

Frattura ed Integrita' Strutturale (FIS) is indexed in Scopus since 2012. If you published a paper in FIS before 2012, you can claim the Scopus indexing of the paper using this link:

https://service.elsevier.com/app/contact/supporthub/scopuscontent/

Very best,

Francesco

Information about the Journal: FIS & Publons - News for the Reviewers

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 05:50:14 +0000

FIS & Publons - News for the Reviewers:
New level of integration! At the end of the review, all the reviewers can immediately add the review in their Publons accounts simply selecting the button "Export review to Publons"

Information about the Journal: FIS users (Google Analytics)

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:33:51 +0000

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale: users according to Google Analytics between 2015 and 2019. VIDEO
2015: 5002 users
2016: 8335 users
2017: 9185 users
2018: 13409 users
2019 (first 9 months): 15391 users
01.01.2015 - 30.09.2019: 50508 users
Do not hesitate to use the papers published in "Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale" for your References!!!

Information about the Journal: Visual Abstract: YouTube Channel

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:26:08 +0000

Now the ONLINE FIRST is active also for the Visual Abstracts YouTube Channel: LINK

The October 2019 issue is already online and the number of the published Visual Abstracts is increasing day by day !!!
Join the channel ... thanks to your help we will be able to obtain the personalized URL!!! We need more than 100 subscribers!

Special Issues: Joint Special Issues between FIS-IGF and MDPC-Wiley: UPDATES (MDPC will be soon indexed in Scopus!)

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:30:43 +0000

Dear friend,
maybe you remember, some weeks ago I sent you an invitation to submit communications to Material and Design and Processing Communications (MDPC-Wiley; below you find the details... the invitation is still valid). Well, we are happy to inform you that Material and Design and Processing Communications (MDPC-Wiley) will be indexed in Scopus starting from 2020 ... with all the old issues! Thank you for your support! Very best
Francesco

Invitation: The FIS authors should present the extended version of their paper in FIS. The paper should contain original results and the paper should be a full-length paper in agreement with FIS authors guidelines that you can find at the following link.
The paper should contain in the main body of the text the original results of the research and a discussion of the results.4A second short communication should be prepared for Material and Design and Processing Communications (MDPC-Wiley). The maximum length of such a manuscript is 4 pages (12 pt font size, 1.5 lines spaced, including all figures and references). The contained display items (figures) should not exceed 3 in number (in agreement with letters format in LINK).
The first page of the letter in MDPC should contain abstract, introduction and keywords.
The second page should briefly review (in less than one page) the main results reported in the full length version paper that will be published in FIS, referring only the fundamental literature. After that the letter should contain mandatorily a section named Recent Trends in Research (maximum one page) summarizing which is the state of the art of the topic which is subject of investigation and a final section named Future Developments and Challenges (maximum one page) where the authors will give their view about the possible progress of the topic in the future and also some preliminary new results in that direction if available.

Information about the Journal: New Authors Guidelines

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 07:38:46 +0000

In order to facilitate the publishing process, some modifications have been implemented in the submission and publishing stages:
- A more detailed Paper Template is now available: LINK
- The paper submission, reviewing and publication process is now more clearly described in the Authors guidelines: LINK
- The Authors are now responsible for the correct pagination of their papers. Only accepted papers with a correct pagination (after the submission of the Visual Abstract and of the Publishing Agreement) will be accepted in the Production Stage and, then, published.

Information about the Journal website: New Service: pdf embedded

Wed, 29 May 2019 04:08:19 +0000

New service: all the pdf files are now embedded in "Frattura ed integrità Strutturale" detail page! You can both read the paper directly in this format and download the file. Thank you for helping us to improve more and more with your suggestions!

Information about the Journal website: New Service: Online First!

Fri, 24 May 2019 04:57:51 +0000

Dear friends,
we are pleased to inform you about the activation of a new service: “On Line First”.
As soon as the papers will be ready for publication (and both the Publishing Agreement and Visual Abstract will be received), they will be immediately available in the dedicated section of the journal (Menu button: “Online First”; https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/onlinefirst/view/index), with their final DOI and pages numbers.
Thank you for your support and for being part of this great community!

Francesco

P.S. In the next issue we will probably exceed the number of 1000 published papers … when you prepare a paper, do not hesitate to consider the papers published in Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale for your references!!

Information about the Journal: Researcher-app

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:43:03 +0000

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is now in Researcher: a single place to browse more than 5,000 journals

https://researcher-app.com/

Poll: IGF Journal title

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 13:49:06 +0000

It is possible to modify the present title of the IGF "Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale" (in Italian) with a new title in English "Fracture and Structural Integrity". Please, let us know your preference:

https://surveyhero.com/c/758819f0

This survey will close on April 30

Indexing: Issue 47 - WoS

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 05:18:06 +0000

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale. Issue 47 (January 2019) is in Web of Science: LINK

DO NOT HESITATE TO USE THE PAPERS PUBLISHED IN FRATTURA ED INTEGRITA' STRUTTURALE FOR YOUR REFERENCES

Conferences: IGF25 International Conference and Summer School

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:16:26 +0000

IGF25 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND IGF 2019 SUMMER SCHOOL

ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION IS OPEN: LINK
Please, remember: The fees are completely and only used for the event organization and for the IGF activities ... included Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale!!! Help our journal... join us!!!

Event website: LINK

Special Issues: Joint Special Issues FIS-MDPC

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:12:07 +0000

The authors should present the extended version of their paper in FIS. The paper should contain original results and the paper should be a full length paper in agreement with FIS authors guidelines that you can find at the following link.

The paper should contain in the main body of the text the original results of the research and a discussion of the results.

A second short communication should be prepared for Material and Design and Processing Communications (MDPC-Wiley). The maximum length of such a manuscript is 4 pages (12 pt font size, 1.5 lines spaced, including all figures and references). The contained display items (figures) should not exceed 3 in number (in agreement with letters format in LINK).

The first page of the letter in MDPC should contain abstract, introduction and keywords.

The second page should briefly review (in less than one page) the main results reported in the full length version paper that will be published in FIS, referring only the fundamental literature. After that the letter should contain mandatorily a section named Recent Trends in Research (maximum one page) summarizing which is the state of the art of the topic which is subject of investigation and a final section named Future Developments and Challenges (maximum one page) where the authors will give their view about the possible progress of the topic in the future and also some preliminary new results in that direction if available.

Indexing: Issue 46 is in Scopus

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 03:17:42 +0000

I am pleased, to announce that all the papers published in the issue 46 (October 2018) of Frattura ed integrità Strutturale are in Scopus at the following LINK (less than 2 weeks from their publication). I wish to warmly thank the Scopus Service for its support!

Information about the Journal: Visual Abstracts: a new channel on YouTube

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:01:48 +0000

All the Visual Abstracts will be also published in the new YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Ob2GNW8i0phNiiKjEVv0A
(Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale Visual Abstracts)
All the videos will be linked to their papers and we hope that will increase the papers visibility and the journal usefulness.

Information about the Journal: Mendeley Style

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 04:33:19 +0000

Thanks to Riccardo Fincato, a new member of the FIS Editorial Board, a Mendeley Style for Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is now available here: https://csl.mendeley.com/styles/504042211/Fracture-and-Stuctural-Integrity

The installation of this style is very simple:
1) open Mendeley desktop
2) Select"View/Citation style"
3) "Get more Styles"
4) In "Download Style" copy and paste "https://csl.mendeley.com/styles/504042211/Fracture-and-Stuctural-Integrity"

Information about the Journal website: Feed RSS

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 09:27:12 +0000

RSS feed allows readers to access Fracture and Structural Integrity Journal updates using a news aggregator, like Feedly. The news aggregator will automatically check the RSS feed for new content.

Use this link to add Fracture and Structural Integrity to your favorite news aggregator:

https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/atom

Information about the Journal: Visual Abstract

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:15:26 +0000

After the paper acceptance, authors must prepare and upload a “Visual Abstract”. This must be prepared following the same procedure of the Audioslides, but with a maximum duration of 2 minutes. (here you find the Tutorial).
The “Visual Abstract” will enhance the papers visibility, allowing the readers to quickly understand the topic of the paper, focusing on the results and the conclusions

Information about the Journal: Join our reviewers team!

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 03:45:04 +0000

Do you want to help the journal as a reviewer? Great!

Please, after “Login”, select your name here:

and “View profile”. In “Profile/Roles”, fill the field “Reviewing interests” mainly, but not only, considering the list “Main Topics” available here: https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/topics.

Please, remember: after each topic, a comma is mandatory. After your list of Reviewing interest will be complete, simply SAVE!

Considering that you are already modifying your profile, we will be grateful if you will spend a few minutes to fill all the fields in “Identity”, “Contact”, “Public” (including your ORCID ID). In this way, your experience with “Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale” will be more and more enjoyable … and when you will submit a paper, the procedure will be faster!!

... and don't forget... "Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is an official partner of "Publons". As a FIS reviewer, you will get the recognition you deserve for keeping watch over science and research

Indexing: Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 04:45:27 +0000

Good news from Scimago Journal & Country Rank!! We wish to thank all the authors, the reviewers and the editorial boards members ... CONGRATULATIONS!!!

https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100209322&tip=sid&clean=0

Indexing: CiteScore 2017

Thu, 31 May 2018 08:47:33 +0000

CiteScore 2016: 0.54

CiteScore 2017: 0.81 (final value)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Indexing: OASPA

Wed, 23 May 2018 07:25:56 +0000

We are pleased to announce that "Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale" is now a member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Associations"): LINK

Its mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally, across all subjects and disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation.

Social: Telegram

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 05:35:30 +0000

Do you want to be always updated about Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale? Do you want to receive updates about the new issues and news about new services and activities of the IGF Journal?

Join the new FIS telegram channel https://t.me/FIS_Journal!!

Information about the Journal website: Browsable version and notes

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 05:43:34 +0000

Now browsable version supports "notes". Try this new service in issue 43. You can add your notes and comments in the browsable version of Frattura ed integrità Strutturale. You can move the notes, you can fins the notes using a list: You can even close the tab... when you will open it again your notes will be in your browsable version! Here you can have more details: LINK

Information about the Journal website: Browsable issues

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:34:51 +0000

The readers can find the browsable versions of the published issues both corresponding to each issue (near the icon of the issue cover there is the following statement "The browsable journal is available at this link" linked to the browsable issue) and in this new website: LINK.

Poll: Opinion and suggestions

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 06:38:07 +0000

You can use this FORM to submit your opinion on Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale and your suggestions to improve its quality and its usefulness for our community. Spend just a couple of minutes and help us to improve! Thank you for your time and your help!

Social: Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale and protocols.io

Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:17:10 +0000

With protocols.io you can edit and publish research methods. Protocols.io offers (completely free of charge):
- An open access repository for research protocols;
- A protocol editor featuring a rich set of components such as reagents, timers, software packages, datasets and more;
- A collaborative working environment for research groups;
- A platform for running protocols and recording your progress step by step-

Join the Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale group in protocols.io: LINK

Information about the Journal website: Certificate of Publication

Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:03:04 +0000

If you published a paper in 'Frattura ed integrità Strutturale', you can obtain a "Certificate of Publication' simply filling the following form.

Information about the Journal: Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale and Publons

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:22:41 +0000

We are pleased to announce the agreement between IGF and Publons.
From Wikipedia: “Publons is a website and free service for academics to track, verify and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions across the world's academic journals. It was launched in 2012 and by 2017 more than 200,000 researchers have joined the site, adding more than one million reviews across 25,000 journals. Publons' mission is to "speed up science by harnessing the power of peer review". Publons claims that by turning peer review into a measurable research output, academics can use their review and editorial record as evidence of their standing and influence in their field.
Publons enables researchers to maintain a single verified record of their review and editorial activity for any of the world's journals. This evidence is showcased on reviewers' online profiles and can be downloaded to include in CVs, funding and job applications, and promotion and performance evaluations”

The partnership between IGF and Publons means that, after the reviewer receives the “thank you mail” from the Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale Editor in Chief, it is simply necessary to forward this email to Publons to add the review to the reviewer profile on Publons (no matter if the reviewed manuscript is accepted or rejected). By default, the content of reviews for Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is not publicly displayed on Publons.
This news service is our way to thank the reviewers for their essential contribution to the Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale life.