To publish original articles in the entire field of ceramic science and technology, including bioceramics, advanced ceramics, structural ceramics, electroelectronic ceramics, magnetic ceramics, optical ceramics, nuclear ceramics, ceramic raw materials, cements, sanitaryware and porcelain, thermal insulators, ceramic tiles, refractories, glazes and ceramic pigments, glasses and glass-ceramics, ceramic matrix composites, basic science, ceramic art, characterization techniques, ceramic equipments, microstructural analysis, manufacturing processes, powder synthesis, etc.
Challenge is dedicated to publishing highly readable heterodox articles on contemporary and historical economic subjects. Its tradition is a progressive one, having been started in the 1970s to support new Keynesian ideas. Challenge ’s readership is lay professional, but includes many economists and other academics who often use the articles as supplements to their class syllabi. It is a magazine, not a journal, and has thrived for more than four decades by serving as an approachable and timely source of ideas, information, and public policy proposals. It is written mostly by economists but also by political scientists, sociologists, psychologist, and journalists. Thus, Challenge occasionally publishes statistical and quantitative research but is focused on well-researched opinions with strong points of view, and as noted timeliness is important. It has never been peer reviewed: its objectives are, like traditional magazines, to be highly literate, to question current doctrine, to react quickly to new events, to work for the public goods, and above all, to be interesting.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547) is a unique international scientific open access journal. It publishes scholarly content which is typically not publishable in traditional research journals, such as research proposals (funded and unfunded), research plans (e.g., a protocol for a systematic review, further research of a technology application, etc.), research or technology ideas, policy studies relating to science and scholarly research, open contests aiming at solving grand challenges, prize announcements, description of prototypes, calls for or description of international research collaborations or complementary support, etc. Manuscripts submitted to Challenges must comply with the highest scientific standards and will be peer-reviewed before a decision regarding possible publication in the journal is made. For funded research proposals, the peer-review process will be skipped and manuscripts published after copy-editing and with comments from the grant review attached, if available. In addition, authors will benefit from discounts on possible publication charges if they subsequently submit papers related to the research project to other MDPI journals.