Abstract: Publishing is an essential part of the scientific process. However, for many scientists the process of submitting a manuscript until the actual publication is quite unknown territory. The talk will present what exactly the job of a scientific editor based at a professional scientific publiher is and how the decision process for some well known titles in materials science works. It will also be discussed what an author of a scientific publication can do (or should avoid) to maximize the chances of getting a manuscript accepted, being published fast and becoming read and cited by the relevant scientific community.

CV of Jörn Ritterbusch (Editor-in-Chief): Jörn Ritterbusch studied chemistry at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in Ecological Chemistry in 1996 for his studies on emissions from coolants for metal working in a research cooperation with Volkswagen AG. He joined Wiley in 2006, and is Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Functional Materials and head of the MacromolecularJournals editorial office.