Vol. 18 No. 69 (2024): July 2024

The browsable version is available at this LINK.

Dear friends,

I wish to thank you for all the appreciation I received concerning the new publishing timing (paper publication immediately after the proofs acceptance and the Visual Abstracts uploading). The "traditional" publishing deadlines (January, April, July and October) allow for the collection of the papers published in the three months before the deadline and for publishing the browsable version. Concerning the browsable version, I am delighted to inform you that also this service is particularly appreciated: considering only the last six months, we collected more than three hundred thousand views! … and all these “views” are additional to our journal's “traditional” users.

To improve the readability and the usefulness of the papers published in Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale - Fracture and Structural integrity, we defined the following limits for the number of references and self-references:

• 25 references max for a research paper (with max 5 self-references);
• 50 references max for a review paper (with max 8 self-references);
• no limits for an invited review (with no limits for self-references).

In June, the new evaluation of Scimago was published. I am happy to inform you that Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale – Fracture and Structural integrity has been confirmed in the Q2 quartile for the following categories:

• Civil and Structural Engineering;
• Mechanical Engineering;
• Mechanics of Materials.

We are grateful for the efforts of the authors, reviewers and editorial board members: they are the authors of this amazing result! But… do not hesitate to use the paper published in FIS for your refs (especially the papers published in the last two years)… this will help the journal to maintain the Q2 evaluation and, maybe… obtain something better!

Finally, don’t forget the next IGF event: The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP2024; https://crackpaths.org/).

The Conference will be held in Rimini (Italy) and online on September 10-12, 2024 (https://www.crackpaths.org). This Conference follows the Conferences in Parma in 2003 and 2006, Vicenza in 2009, Gaeta in 2012, Ferrara in 2015, Verona in 2018 and online in 2021.

The deadlines are:

• Always open: Registration
• 30.06.2024: Abstracts submission
• 30.06.2024: Acceptance notification
• 15.08.2024: Early bird registration and payment
• 09.2024 to 12.09.2024: Conference
• 30.09.2024: Papers submission (after the Conference)
• 15.10.2024: Papers acceptance