Subject Coverage
Subject Sections
Article Types

Subject coverage

With 12 issues per year, Measurement Science and Technology publishes articles on new measurement techniques and associated instrumentation. Papers that describe experiments must represent an advance in measurement science or measurement technique rather than the application of established experimental technique. Authors must make this novel aspect clear, bearing in mind the multidisciplinary readership of the journal. Subject coverage includes the theory, practice and application of measurement in physics, chemistry, engineering and the environmental and life sciences from inception to commercial exploitation.

Publications in the journal should emphasize the novelty of reported methods, characterize them and demonstrate their performance using examples or applications.

Subject sections

When submitting a regular paper for publication, please include information on which subject section the article is intended for. The 10 sections are

1. Measurement theory and practical developments (e.g. precision measurements, metrology (dimensional (from pico- and nano-scale to macro-scale), optical, thermal, acoustic, electrical), new measurement principles, signal processing techniques, theory of measurement, calibrations)
2. Sensors and sensor systems (based on physical, chemical or biological principles; micro- and nano-scale systems; sensors for physical, chemical and biological quantities)
3. Optical and laser based techniques (e.g. fibre optics, interferometry, etc)
4. Measurement methods for fluids (e.g. fluid flow, velocimetry, particle sizing, etc)
5. Imaging techniques (e.g. microscopy, tomography, holography, THz, etc)
6. Spectroscopy (e.g. optical, acoustic, dielectric principles, MS, NMR, ESR, IR, UV-VIS, fluorescence, neutron, PCS, X-ray, etc)
7. Techniques for materials and materials processing evaluation (e.g. non-destructive testing and evaluation, structural measurements)
8. Measurement techniques for biological, medical and life science applications (e.g. imaging and spectroscopic techniques, biosensors)
9. Instrumentation for environmental and atmospheric measurements
   
10. Novel instrumentation

Article types

Papers. Reports of original research work; not normally more than 8500 words (10 journal pages). Papers on new instruments should include some representative results. Claims for originality of instrument design or novelty of measurement technique should be clearly stated in the abstract.

Technical design notes. Brief contributions on current design, development and application work; not normally more than 2500 words (3 journal pages), including descriptions of apparatus or techniques developed for a specific purpose, important experimental or theoretical points and novel technical solutions to commonly encountered problems.

Rapid communications. Brief, urgent announcements of significant advances or preliminary accounts of new work, not more than 3500 words (4 journal pages). The most important criteria for acceptance of a Rapid communication are novelty and significance. For these articles authors must state briefly, in a covering letter, exactly why their work merits rapid publication.

Topical review articles. These are intended to summarize accepted practice and report on recent progress in selected areas. Such articles are generally commissioned from experts in various fields by the Editorial Board, but others wishing to write a Review article may submit an outline for preliminary consideration.

Special issue and feature articles. These are commissioned only by the Editorial Board as part of ongoing subject development in the journal.