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The International Journal of Corrosion Processes and Corrosion Control publishes leading research in corrosion engineering and corrosion science, including degradation, composites and metallic and non-metallic materials.

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology provides broad international coverage of research and practice in corrosion processes and corrosion control. Peer-reviewed contributions address all aspects of corrosion engineering and corrosion science; there is strong emphasis on effective design and materials selection to combat corrosion and the journal carries failure case studies to further knowledge in these areas.

CEST’s scope encompasses degradation of all metallic and non-metallic materials and composites. The journal also publishes regular updates on international developments in corrosion standards and reviews of important international meetings.

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This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics .

This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cest  to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.

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• What do we publish? 1.1 Aims & Scope 1.2 Article types 1.3 Writing your paper
• Editorial policies 2.1 Peer review policy 2.2 Authorship 2.3 Acknowledgements 2.4 Funding 2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests 2.6 Research ethics and patient consent 2.7 Research data
• Publishing policies 3.1 Publication ethics 3.2 Contributor’s publishing agreement 3.3 Open access and author archiving
• Preparing your manuscript 4.1 Formatting 4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics 4.3 Identifiable information 4.4 Supplemental material 4.5 Reference style 4.6 English language editing services
• Submitting your manuscript 5.1 ORCID 5.2 Information required for completing your submission 5.3 Permissions
• On acceptance and publication 6.1 SAGE Production 6.2 Online First publication 6.3 Access to your published article 6.4 Promoting your article
• Further information 7.1 Appealing the publication decision

1. What do we publish?

1.1 Aims & Scope

Before submitting your manuscript to Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology , please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope;

1.2 Article types

Short communication

A “short communication” is a brief report on, and discussion of, novel research findings, comprising no more than 4 figures plus tables, occupying 4 or fewer journal pages and presenting a single substantive conclusion.

Research Article

A “research article” is the most common submission and presents, and discusses in context and in detail, the novel results of an experiment, group of experiments, or complete research project, providing several substantive, linked and significant conclusions.

Word count: around 4000 – 6000 words (excluding tables, figure legends and references) is recommended.

Technical Paper

A “technical paper” reports on work that although falling outside the “research article” category, is of significance and interest to the journal readership. Examples include, but are not limited to: case studies, reviews of best practice, discussion and news of standards, round robin tests, research techniques and methodologies, scholarly commentary and opinion.

Critical Review

A “critical review” evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the topic of interest by detailed analysis of relevant published literature taking account of all viewpoints, and concluding by resolving conflicting opinions or making clear where future research effort should be focussed. It is normal to include authors’ own published works in the discussion provided an objective view is presented.

1.3 Writing your paper

Visit the Sage Author Gateway for general advice on how to get published , plus links to further resources.

Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance your article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

1.3.1 Make your article discoverable

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2.1 Peer review policy

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Reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Our policy is that reviewers should not be assigned to a paper if:

• The reviewer is based at the same institution as any of the co-authors.
• The reviewer is based at the funding body of the paper.
• The author has recommended the reviewer.
• The reviewer has provided a personal (e.g. Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) email account and an institutional email account cannot be found after performing a basic Google search (name, department and institution).

The journal’s policy is that research papers and critical reviews are independently assessed by a minimum of two expert reviewers while technical papers and short communications are assessed by at least one reviewer. Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology utilizes a single-anonymised peer review process in which the reviewer’s name and information is withheld from the author. Reviewers may at their own discretion opt to reveal their names to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for their identities to remain concealed. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editor who then makes the final decision.

The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

Special issue manuscripts are managed by an external Guest Editor who will handle the peer review process of each submission. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Guest Editor. The Guest Editor then recommends a decision on the manuscript, with the final accept decision made by the Journal Editor.

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper, and as such has partnered with Web of Science (previously Publons). Web of Science is a third-party service that seeks to track, verify and give credit for peer review. Reviewers for Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology can opt into Web of Science in order to claim their reviews or have them automatically verified and added to their reviewer profile. Reviewers claiming credit for their review will be associated with the relevant journal, but the article name, reviewer’s decision and the content of their review is not published on the site. For more information visit the Web of Science website .

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• Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
• Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
• Approved the version to be published,
• Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.

Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.

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2.3 Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.]

Per ICMJE recommendations , it is best practice to obtain consent from non-author contributors who you are acknowledging in your paper.                                                    

2.3.1 Third party submissions Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:

• Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
• Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
• Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.

Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.

2.3.2 Writing assistance

Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.

2.4 Funding

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.  Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. 

2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests

It is the policy of Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.

Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here .

2.6 Research ethics and patient consent

Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki .

Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals , and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant ethics committee or institutional review board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.

For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.

If applicable, authors are required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent.

Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative. Please do not submit the patient’s actual written informed consent with your article, as this in itself breaches the patient’s confidentiality. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves, for example in a patient’s hospital record. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file.

Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants .

All research involving animals submitted for publication must be approved by an ethics committee with oversight of the facility in which the studies were conducted. The journal has adopted the ARRIVE guidelines.

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• Cite this data in your research

Peer reviewers may be asked to peer review the research data prior to publication.

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If you need to anonymize your research data for peer review, please refer to our Research Data Sharing FAQs for guidance .  

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3.1.1 Plagiarism

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the Journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.

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3.3 Open access and author archiving

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access . For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies .

4. Preparing your manuscript

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The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. A LaTex template is available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.

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• A version of the manuscript which has had any information that compromises the anonymity of the author(s) removed or anonymised. This version will be sent to the peer reviewers.
• A separate title page which includes any removed or anonymised material. This will not be sent to the peer reviewers.

Visit the Sage Author Gateway for detailed guidance on making an anonymous submission .

4.4 Supplemental material

This Journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc.) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplemental files .

4.5 Reference style

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology adheres to the Sage Vancouver reference style. View the Sage Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.

If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Vancouver EndNote output file .

4.6 English language editing services

Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the Journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information .

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IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the Journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.  For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help .

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We encourage all authors and co-authors to link their ORCIDs to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. We collect ORCID IDs during the manuscript submission process and your ORCID ID then becomes part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID ID is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

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7. Further information

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Professor S B Lyon: [email protected]

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• Published: 21 June 2023

Microbially mediated metal corrosion

• Dake Xu   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0931-7189 1 , 2 ,
• Tingyue Gu   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4208-210X 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 &
• Derek R. Lovley   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7158-3555 1 , 7  

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume  21 ,  pages 705–718 ( 2023 ) Cite this article

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A wide diversity of microorganisms, typically growing as biofilms, has been implicated in corrosion, a multi-trillion dollar a year problem. Aerobic microorganisms establish conditions that promote metal corrosion, but most corrosion has been attributed to anaerobes. Microbially produced organic acids, sulfide and extracellular hydrogenases can accelerate metallic iron (Fe 0 ) oxidation coupled to hydrogen (H 2 ) production, as can respiratory anaerobes consuming H 2 as an electron donor. Some bacteria and archaea directly accept electrons from Fe 0 to support anaerobic respiration, often with c -type cytochromes as the apparent outer-surface electrical contact with the metal. Functional genetic studies are beginning to define corrosion mechanisms more rigorously. Omics studies are revealing which microorganisms are associated with corrosion, but new strategies for recovering corrosive microorganisms in culture are required to evaluate corrosive capabilities and mechanisms. Interdisciplinary studies of the interactions among microorganisms and between microorganisms and metals in corrosive biofilms show promise for developing new technologies to detect and prevent corrosion. In this Review, we explore the role of microorganisms in metal corrosion and discuss potential ways to mitigate it.

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The dynamic development of the global industry and growing demand for new material technologies generates constantly increasing problems regarding premature material degradation and the requirement to determine corrosion mechanisms and to develop new protection/evaluation approaches. This Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Corrosion Science”, brings together fourteen articles and one review, providing a snapshot of the recent activity and development in this field.

The corrosion properties of ferrous metals remain the most popular subject of investigation, which naturally found coverage in numerous research articles present within this Special Issue. The primary source of this versatility is achieved by a proper selection of alloying additives and metalworking, which guarantee the demanded mechanical and physicochemical properties. On the other hand, the alteration of metal structure leads to the formation of galvanic microcells, often translating into various forms of local corrosion. The search for alloying additives enhancing the corrosion resistance without sacrificing the desired characteristics continues, intending to reduce alloy corrosion rate and bring measurable economic profits. Within this Special Issue, you will find multiple original research papers strictly devoted to this issue for both ferrous [ 2 , 3 , 4 ] and non-ferrous metals [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. The influence of novel microscopy tools, which enable the direct observation of local corrosion processes, cannot be overestimated. For this reason, I would like to recommend a very interesting and important review prepared by Chen et al. [ 9 ], referring to the advances in electrochemical atomic force microscopy (EC-AFM), an outstanding tool to perform real-time in situ corrosion studies of galvanic microcells.

Affecting the corrosion process by electrochemical protection (cathodic or anodic), barrier properties obtained with the use of paints or coatings as well as environment modification with dedicated corrosion inhibitors, are the three primary ways to reduce the corrosion rate found in both principle and industrial studies regarding anti-corrosion technologies. All of these research areas are represented within this Special Issue. The works of Xu et al. [ 10 ], Tang. et al. [ 11 ] and Ryl et al. [ 12 ] reveal various aspects concerning the search for efficient organic corrosion inhibitors and the tools used to evaluate protection mechanisms. The studies of Parchoviansky et al. [ 13 ] and Winiarski et al. [ 14 ] provide an insight on the development of anti-corrosion composite coatings, while an interesting report from Kania and Sipa [ 15 ] shows the improved corrosion resistance of anodic zinc coatings, obtained using a new thermal diffusion process.

It is important to emphasize that, nowadays, corrosion issues are not solely connected with the degradation of metals. Modern composite or semiconductor electrode materials are constantly developed to be used in numerous branches of applied electrochemistry, such as energy storage and conversion, electrochemical sensors and electrocatalytic processes. Their stable performance under aggressive environmental factors is often questionable. Thus, the final manuscript of this Special Issue presents work in this new field, which was devoted to high-temperature oxidation and the degradation of boron-doped diamond nanostructures [ 16 ].

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Corrosion significantly affects the performance and durability of any material and as such is an important determining factor in critical industries like marine, aerospace, aircraft and construction. The corrosion behaviour of any material is determined not only by the material itself but also by the interaction of the material with the environment and many other allied factors. A clear understanding of corrosion process is thus of utmost importance for the proper selection of the materials in any given environment and for their effective use for engineering and industrial applications. In this paper, a comprehensive review of different studies carried out to analyse the corrosion behaviour of different metals and other materials in different environments is presented. Also, details about various inhibitors and reinforcements having varying effects on the corrosion behaviour of different materials are presented. A section is dedicated to discuss the various corrosion evaluation methods suitable for a particular environment. Further, special focus has been laid to discuss the various methods to evaluate corrosion and various corrosive environments to which the materials are susceptible. The literature revealed that the material–environment interactions and other various factors greatly affect the corrosion behaviour of the materials. The paper apart from presenting fundamentals related to corrosion testing shall also present the literature related to the corrosion behaviour of various critical engineering materials, and the paper shall act as a stimulant for future research.

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Farooq, S.A., Raina, A., Ul Haq, M.I. et al. Corrosion Behaviour of Engineering Materials: A Review of Mitigation Methodologies for Different Environments. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. D 103 , 639–661 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40033-022-00367-5

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