Aim and Scope

The Journal's aim is to provide the best scientific experience in the field of non-ferrous metallurgy and materials science.

The objectives of the journal are to:

1) adhere to international standards of publication ethics at all stages of the publication process;

2) ensure regular and high-quality scientific content through careful selection of articles based on the interests of the target readership, relevance of research, originality, and reliability of materials;

3) provide transparency in the publication process for authors;

4) implement the latest practices in scientific publishing;

5) create special issues with experts on current topics;

6) expand and enhance the English-language content of the journal.

Section Policies

Mineral Processing of Nonferrous Metals -

Theoretical and technological aspects of processing the mineral and technogenic raw materials with the purpose of the fabrication of mineral concentrates are considered. Articles devoted to questions of ore preparation (crushing, milling, disintegration, sieving and classification, and pre-concentration) and concentration processes and apparatuses (gravitation, magnetic and electric separation, and flotation). Manuscripts of articles are published with the theoretical, experimental, and technological substantiations of intensifying physical and physiochemical actions directed to an increase in contrast of the properties of separated minerals of non-ferrous metals; combined technologies including biochemical and autoclave oxidation, etc., in order to solve the problem of rational nature management. Manuscripts of the articles devoted to the improvement of processing technologies of ores; placers of non-ferrous heavy, precious, and rare metals; technogenic wastes of ore-dressing and mining and smelting processing complexes of metal-ore feedstocks based on the deep investigation of the substantial composition are accepted. Questions of ecology of ore-dressing production, for example, processes of purification of waste waters, application of water recycling, etc. are considered.

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Metallurgy of Nonferrous Metals -

Materials on the theory and practice of non-ferrous metals -- aluminum, nickel, zinc, magnesium, lead, etc. are published. Manuscripts; in which the results of investigations into the thermodynamics and kinetics of pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes in production of non-ferrous metals including the questions of increasing the complexity of using the starting raw materials; are published.

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Metallurgy of Rare and Precious Metals -

Articles are subjected to fundamental and applied investigations in the field of pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and electrometallurgy of refractory, rare-earth, radioactive, scattered, and precious metals as well as the results of studies associated with the processing of secondary raw materials and technogenic wastes (slags, ashes, etc.), which contain rare and precious metals, are published.

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Foundry -

Articles devoted to the smelting of alloys based on aluminum, copper, nickel, zinc, lead, tin, and refractory metals in laboratory and industrial conditions including the use of scraps and waste are published. Important value is attached to works on the removal of gases and non-metallic inclusions from non-ferrous metal alloys and modification, including nano-modification of non-ferrous and rare metal alloys as well as the fabrication and application of foundry alloys for the introduction of alloying and modifying additives into non-ferrous metal alloys. Priority directions are also in the investigation in the field of additive 3D technologies of production of shaped casts and ingots from non-ferrous metal alloys, fabrication of artistic casts, investigation and modeling the crystallization and solidification processes, thermal treatment, and investigation into mechanical properties of alloys in connection with the peculiarities of their crystallization and solidification of cast billets.

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Pressure Treatment of Metals -

A broad circle of questions of theory and practice of plastic deformation associated with the reflection of the latest achievements in the field of the fabrication of planar and round rolled metal from industrial non-ferrous and rare metals and alloys is reflected. The latest achievements in the investigation of complex rheological properties of deformed materials are presented, problems and methods of mathematical modeling various processes of pressure treatment of metals are considered, and the results of optimization of flowcharts of the creation of low-waste and energy-consuming treatment methods of non-ferrous and rare metals are presented. Modern concepts of the development of priority directions of the improvement of rolling, pressing, and drawing productions are discussed. Special attention is paid to works on the incorporation of new types of  main and auxiliary equipment as well as the creation of flexible technological lines on the production of the economic type of rolled metal and other metal production.

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Physical Metallurgy and Heat Treatment -

Articles devoted to the formation of the structure and properties of non-ferrous metals and their alloys during the crystallization, thermal treatment, and plastic deformation; as well as to the development of new alloys, technologies, and thermal treatment modes are published. Works on the structure and properties of composite materials based on non-ferrous metals and alloys are also accepted. Publication of generalizing reviews on the topical problems of physical metallurgy is possible.

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Corrosion and Protection of Metals -

The results of fundamental and applied investigations in the field of technologies of the deposition and characterization of functional and multifunctional films on substrates of non-ferrous and rare metals and alloys are published. Various methods of physical and chemical deposition and modification of the surface, which substantially vary its properties, are considered, including: thermal evaporation, ion-beam and ion-plasma sputtering, electric-discharge alloying, chemical deposition, microarc oxidation, laser treatment, ion implantation, selective laser overlaying, etc. Articles are accepted, which are devoted to various functional materials of coatings: tribological, wear-resistant, thermostable, heat-resistant, magneto-electro-optical, bio-compatible, etc. The condition of accepting the article to the publication is the presence of the cause-and-effect relations between the deposition parameters, phase composition, and coatings structure with its properties as applied to a concrete application field in the article.

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Energy and Resource Saving -

Articles are published, which are directed to the creation of energy-saving and resource-saving technologies and theoretical articles devoted to solving various problems associated with the motion of liquids and gases as well as heat-and-mass transfer as applied to metallurgical technologies and engineering methods about  environmental protection are published. Works devoted to numerical modeling and the application of complex models of thermal processes occurring in production apparatuses of non-ferrous metallurgy are considered.

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Information

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Peer Review Process

Manuscripts are sent for review only after approval by the Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy editors. Each manuscript are reviewed by at least 2-3 experts in the field of research. Reviewing is double-blind (the identities of reviewers and authors are not disclosed to each other).

Decision options that the author receives based on the results of reviewing:
- accept for publication;
- recommended for publication after correction of reviewers' comments;
- reject.

Each reviewer observes publishing ethics and does not use the scientific information obtained during the reviewing process before its publication in the open press in his/her own interests.
The final decision on the possibility of publishing the manuscripts reviewed is made at the meeting of the Journal Editorial Board.

The Editorial Board of the Journal observes the publishing ethics in maintaining the confidentiality of scientific information of the article before its publication in the open press.

Publication Frequency

4 numbers per year

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

Peer-Review

A double-blind peer review method is mandatory for the processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial staff of "Izvestiya Vuzov. Tsvetnaya Metallurgiya" (Izvestiya. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy). This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer.

1. Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, are invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or science editor choose readers for peer review. We aim to limit the review process to 2-4 weeks, though in some cases the schedule may be adjusted at the reviewer’s request.
2. The reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript. Upon scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the editorial board with one of the following recommendations:
   - to accept the paper in its present state;
   - to invite the author to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached;
   - that final decision be reached following further reviewing by another specialist;
   - to reject the manuscript outright.
3. If the reviewer has recommended any refinements, the editorial staff would suggest the author either to implement the corrections, or to dispute them reasonably. Authors are kindly required to limit their revision to 2 months and resubmit the adapted manuscript within this period for final evaluation.
4. We politely request that the editor be notified verbally or in writing should the author decide to refuse from publishing the manuscript. In case the author fails to do so within 3 months from receiving a copy of the initial review, the editorial board takes the manuscript off the register and notifies the author accordingly.
5. If the author and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding any revision of the manuscript, the editor-in-chief resolves the conflict under their own authority.
6. The editorial board reaches a final decision to reject a manuscript at the hearing according to reviewers’ recommendations, and duly notifies the authors of their decision via e-mail. The board does not accept previously rejected manuscripts for re-evaluation.
7. Upon the decision to accept the manuscript for publishing, the editorial staff notifies the authors of the scheduled date of publication.
8. Kindly note that a positive review does not guarantee acceptance, as the final decision in all cases lies with the editorial board. By their authority, the editor-in-chief rules over the final solution of every conflict.
9. Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 3 years.

Indexation

The journal is included in the full-text eLibrary.ru database, it is indexed in the Russian Index of Scientific Citation (RISC, RINTs), Abstract Journal, and VINITI Database. 

Impact Factor (IF-2021) RISC – 0,271.

The journal is indexed in foreign databases: Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), disposed on the platform Web of Science, Chemical Abstracts (Online) and INIS Collection Search (International Nuclear Information System); it is registered in the international handbook of periodic publications Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.

The journal is included in foreign services for the delivery of documents, the British Library Document Supply Centre; East View Information Services, Inc.; Information Express; IngentaConnect; and the Linda Hall Library of Service, Engineering & Technology

Publishing Ethics

Ethics of the Editorial Staff of the journal

The editorial board, the collective of the editorial staff, and the journal founders follow the publication ethic and norms of copyright and hold the rules described in the ‘Declaration on publication ethics and inacceptable practices’ by the Springer publisher platform and are prepared based on the code and standards of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) and other leading publisher platforms and scientific communities.

Following ethic norms is necessary to provide the high quality of scientific publications, confidence of the community to the results of the scientific activity, and adequate recognition of merits of the authors.    

We support that it is necessary to exclude falsification, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, distribution of the authors of works of the same content to more than one journal, multiple copying of similar information in different articles, falsely prescribing the authority, and introducing the community into the delusion relative to the true contribution of the authors in the publication.

The editorial staff guarantees the objective procedure of consideration of all manuscripts presented for publication, the value of which is determined by the topicality of considered problems and tasks, clearness of description, justification and reliability of scientific results presented in the article. The editorial board have the right to verify the manuscript for plagiarism (with the use of the corresponding software) and doubling information in publications of the authors.

Based on two negative reviews received from experts attracted to reviewing and belonging to leading specialists (no less than 3 people) and consideration of conclusions at the meeting of the editorial board, the editorial staff have the right to remove the manuscript from publication. The editorial staff report the conclusion of referees to the authors on terms of confidentiality of their personal data.

Ethics of Authors

Authors of manuscripts of the article follow ethic norms and are responsible for the absence of plagiarism in the publication (negligent citation); they guarantee the absence of falsification of the results of the investigation and reliability and reproducibility of the results of investigations by procedures presented in the publication.

Authors of manuscripts are collectively responsible for the content of the scientific article upon publishing as well as for the absence of any information that can be attributed to state secrets or commercial secrets of an organization which financed the investigation in the article. All authors should be active participants of investigations, the results of which are presented in the article.

Authors assume a liability not to send the same or close to the content manuscript (with copying the illustrative materials) to the editorial staff of two or more journals before receiving the final conclusion from the editorial staff of our the journal.

Ethics of the Referee

The referee follows ethic norms and guarantees the absence of the conflict of interest when accepting the manuscript of the article for reviewing.

The referee follows confidentiality of the information of the manuscript.

The referee does not use the scientific information obtained in the course of reviewing in their own interests.

Founder

• National University of Science and Technology ‘MISIS’, Moscow, Russia

Author fees

Publication in the journal is free of charge for all authors.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.