Date : 11/30/2022 12:40:09 PM
From : "Kelly Shen"
To : ofrapazt@nrcn.gov.il
Cc : Minerals@mdpi.com
Subject : [Minerals] (New IF 2.818) Paper Invitation for Special Issue “Uranium: Geochemistry and Mineralogy”—Dr. Tal
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 Dear Dr. Tal,

I trust this email finds you well. Here we have a Special Issue which may be of interest to you.

Special Issue: Uranium: Geochemistry and Mineralogy
Guest Editor: Dr. Raymond H. Johnson; Dr. Johanna Blake
Submission Deadline: 27 May 2023

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals/special_issues/UGM

On behalf of our Guest Editors, we would like to invite you and your colleagues to contribute a paper to this Special Issue, for which the following special discount will be applied to the article processing charge (APC):

Submit before 31 January 2023: CHF 600 discount
Submit before 28 April 2023: CHF 200 discount

If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, please send us a short abstract or tentative title in advance, as well as an expected submission date for our reference. To enable us to plan the entire project, we would appreciate it if you could inform us, within *two weeks*, whether you wish to contribute a paper to this Special Issue.

This Special Issue belongs to our section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry”(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals/sections/Environmental_Mineralogy_Biogeochemistry). If you do not currently have research results that are suitable for this Special Issue, we welcome you to contribute a regular paper to the section, for which the same discount we have guaranteed for this Special Issue will apply.

Minerals is an open access journal published by MDPI (indexed in Web of Science, with a 2021 impact factor of 2.818). *JCR category rank*: 8/20 (Q2) in the ‘Mining & Mineral Processing' category, 11/30 (Q2) in the 'Mineralogy’ category and 42/87 (Q2) in the ‘Geochemistry & Geophysics' category. The Article Processing Charge (APC) is CHF 2000 (Swiss Francs) per accepted paper.

There are numerous benefits to publishing in Minerals: (1) open access  and high visibility—unlimited access, broad database coverage, and  various promotional activities and academic event presentations; (2) rapid turn-around—the median value of the "Article Processing Time"  (from submission to publication) is 40 days in 2020, with an average of 17 days from submission to first decision.

We sincerely hope this invitation will receive your favorable consideration. We are happy to answer your questions, and we look  forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Kelly

Ms. Kelly Shen
Section Managing Editor


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*News*: 2021 Impact Factor is 2.818 (+6.58% compared with data in 2020),
ranks 8/20 (Q2) in the ‘Mining & Mineral Processing' category, 11/30
(Q2) in the ‘Mineralogy’ category and 42/87 (Q2) in 'Geochemistry &
Geophysics’ category; 2021 CiteScore 3.7