Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP, UK, has announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties. This brings IOP's journals portfolio to 68 titles.
An electronic-only journal, Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties will focus on the progress in surface topography measurement and characterisation, instrumentation development and the properties of surfaces. The journal aims to provide an international forum for academics, industrialists and engineers from different disciplines to present results, latest research and case studies.
The journal's Editor-in-Chief is Professor Richard Leach, Principal Research Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory, UK, who has a PhD in Surface Metrology from the University of Warwick and is a fellow of the Institute of Physics.
IOP will manage the peer-review process, working closely with the journal's Editorial Board, as well as taking responsibility for the production, sales and marketing of the journal. It will be published quarterly and will be freely available online until the end of 2013.
Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties is currently open for submission of papers.
