EDITOR’S PREFACE
After 4 years of great service in the
job as Editor-in-Chief of Materials &
Technology, Matja` Torkar has taken
retirement. He saw the journal
through some difficult times and
established it as an important inter-
national record of scientific
achievements. He will be a tough act
to follow.
The next issue, 6/2016, will see
some changes. After many years of
being both open access and free to
publish, we will have to
acknowledge the economic
realities of the situation and
start to charge for each
published paper. In line with
other Slovenian journals we will
introduce a publication fee of 300, payable on accept-
ance of the manuscript, with a reduced fee of 150 for
those people presenting at the annual International
Conference on Materials & Technology, held annually in
Portoro`, Slovenia. This fee will be applied to
manuscripts submitted after 30 Sept. 2016.
A second change, which we feel is in line with the
progress the journal has been making over the past de-
cade, is to publish original and review scientific articles.
From now on we will not have a separate section for pro-
fessional articles. As the number of submissions in the
past years has soared, from 120 in 1995 to near 400 in
2015, our selection criteria have had to become stricter.
So, in order to help authors get their articles published
we have re-written the Instructions for Authors, intro-
duced a template for manuscript submission and now
require a mandatory check-list to accompany all new
manuscripts. For the time being we will still be accepting
submissions by e-mail to mit@imt.si, where they will be
handled first by the journal’s new Technical Editor, Erika
Nared, who will be checking each manuscript’s eligi-
bility, before they are assessed by myself or members of
the Editorial Board. However, we expect to be switching
to a web-based submission procedure in next few years.
The journal is becoming increasingly international,
with manuscripts being submitted from all over the
world. It is very gratifying to see that Materials & Tech-
nology is now such a familiar and respected journal in
places outside of Slovenia, but we would still like to
receive more submissions from researchers from Slo-
venia.
PREDGOVOR UREDNIKA
Po 4 letih delovanja kot glavni in odgovorni
urednik revije je dr. Matja` Torkar zaradi
upokojitve prenehal z urednikovanjem.
Skozi izzivov polno obdobje je vodil
revijo, da je postala to, kar predstavlja
danes: pomembno mednarodno uveljav-
ljeno revijo, ki objavlja mnoge znan-
stvene dose`ke.
Z naslednjo {tevilko (6/2016), ki bo
iz{la v decembru 2016, bomo uvedli
nekaj sprememb. Po mnogih letih,
tako odprtega dostopa revije kot
brezpla~ne objave ~lankov, bo-
mo zaradi ekonomske situacije
za~eli zara~unavati objavo ~lan-
kov v na{i reviji. Tako kot to
po~ne `e prenekatera slovenska
znanstvena revija. Za obi~ajne
~lanke bo cena 300 , za tiste ~lanke, ki bodo predstav-
ljeni na letni Mednarodni konferenci o materialih in teh-
nologijah, ki poteka vsako leto v Portoro`u, pa 150 . Za
~lanke, ki jih bomo prejeli od 30. septembra 2016 dalje,
bo potrebno pla~ilo za objavo.
Druga sprememba, za katero menimo, da je dobro-
do{la in nujna za nadaljnji razvoj revije, je objavljanje
izvirnih znanstvenih in preglednih ~lankov. Od sedaj
naprej tako ne bo ve~ sekcije za strokovne ~lanke. Ker je
v zadnjem ~asu {tevilo oddaje ~lankov izredno naraslo,
od nekaj 120 v letu 1995 na blizu 400 v letu 2015, smo
mnenja, da je potrebno kriterije za izbiro ~lankov za-
ostriti. Tako smo, v pomo~ avtorjem, posodobili Navo-
dila za avtorje, predstavili bomo vzorec oz. predlogo,
kako naj bo ~lanek napisan in poleg oddaje ~lanka bomo
zahtevali obvezno oddajo kontrolnega seznama, ki ga bo
moral izpolniti avtor. Oddaja ~lankov bo tako {e vedno
potekala preko e-po{te: mit@imt.si, kjer jih bo najprej
obravnavala nova tehni~na urednica, Erika Nared, preden
bodo posredovani v pregled meni ali ~lanom uredni{kega
odbora. Nadalje, v bodo~e na~rtujemo prehod na spletno
oddajanje ~lankov za objavo v reviji.
Revija postaja vse bolj mednarodna, saj so ~lanki
poslani iz razli~nih delov sveta. V ~ast nam je, da je
revija Materiali in tehnologije danes tako znana in
ugledna tudi izven Slovenije, vendar si `elimo, da bi v
na{i reviji objavljalo ve~je {tevilo strokovnjakov in
raziskovalcev iz Slovenije.
Na{e osnovno prizadevanje ostaja {e naprej: da je
revija Materiali in tehnologije znanstvena revija, ki je
posve~ena izvirnim znanstvenim ~lankom in ~lankom, ki
Our basic remit remains the same: we are a scientific
journal, devoted to original scientific papers and articles
relating to fundamental and applied science and techno-
logy. Topics of particular interest to the journal include
metallic materials, inorganic materials, polymers, va-
cuum techniques and nanomaterials. In response to
requests by authors we will be making a lot of effort over
the next year to reduce the waiting period for publication
to 4–6 months, so as to provide a better service to both
authors and readers. In addition, we welcome construc-
tive comments from anyone with an interest in the
journal and are happy to discuss new ideas.
I would like to thank you for your interest in Mate-
rials & Technology journal and look forward to working
with you in the future.
Paul McGuiness,
Editor-in-Chief
obravnavajo tematiko temeljne in aplikativne znanosti ter
tehnologije. Tematike, ki so posebnega pomena za revijo
vklju~ujejo kovinske materiale, anorganske materiale,
polimere, vakuumsko tehniko in nanomateriale. Glede na
`elje in zahteve mnogih avtorjev, se bomo v naslednjem
letu trudili skraj{ati obdobje ~akanja na objavo ~lanka
(na 4–6 mesecev) in tako stopiti naproti tako avtorjem,
kot tudi bralcem. Veseli bomo vsake va{e konstruktivne
kritike, predlogov ali novih idej, ki nam bodo pomagale
narediti revijo {e bolj{o.
Zahvaljujem se vam za va{e zanimanje in prebiranje
revije Materiali in tehnologije ter se veselim prihodnjega
sodelovanja z vami.
Paul McGuiness,
Glavni in odgovorni urednik