Journal of Cluster Science is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 publishing original (primary) research and review articles

Literature review

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 on all aspects of cluster science, including nanoclusters and nanoparticles. It is published four times a year by Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media

- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

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The editor-in-chief of Journal of Cluster Science is R.D. Adams. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 0.976.

Subject coverage

Journal of Cluster Science publishes articles on cluster science in all phases, including the synthesis of molecular clusters or nanoparticulate material, structure determination, bonding analysis, chemical and physical properties, mathematical models of cluster structure, molecular biology of clusters, and instrumentation or experimental procedures for cluster research.

Article types

Journal of Cluster Science publishes the following types of articles:

• Research Papers (original scientific work)
• Short Communications (preliminary accounts that merit urgent publication)
• Reviews of Cluster Research
• The Forum

Abstracting and indexing

Journal of Cluster Science is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:

• Chemical Abstracts Service
  Chemical Abstracts Service
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   - CASSI
  Cassi
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• Science Citation Index
  Science Citation Index
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   - Web of Science
  Web of Science
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• Scopus
  Scopus
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• Academic OneFile
• Astrophysics Data System
  Astrophysics Data System
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• GeoRef
  GeoRef
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