ICOOPMA 2008

Editors
Safa Kasap (University of Saskatchewan), Coordinating Editor
Ray DeCorby (University of Alberta, Edmonton)
Harry Ruda (University of Toronto)
Raman Kashyap (Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal)
Frank Hegmann (University of Alberta)

Presented papers will be refereed and accepted ones will be published in a special issue of Physica Status Solidi C: Current Topics in Solid State Physics (Wiley)
 

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Invited talks: Maximum 6 printed pages
Regular papers: Maximum 4 printed pages. (Note: Under exceptional circumstances, with permission from one of the editors, you can use up to 5 pages if your paper has four or more authors and two or more institutions)

Manuscripts must be submitted by 15 August 2008. As August is a holiday season, we will accept manuscripts until 1 September 2008. (If you are going to be later than 1 September, please contact one of the conference chairs to get permission).  Please make sure to attach the Manuscript Cover Page with your submission. Your manuscript must be submitted as a Word document and prepared using the template below

(1) Read the following guidelines: Download the guideline

(2) Use this  Word Template for your manuscript: Download template
Important You must use the word template to prepare your manuscript and fit it into 4 pages (6 for invited). 

(3) Attach this Cover Page to your manuscript or cover page

(4) Submit to: proceedings.icoopma@gmail.com

Important If you have an additional paper you are submitting as a delegate, you must pay the extra paper charge of $150.  Simply fill in that line on the registration form.  

ANNOUNCEMENT  FROM THE CONFERENCE AND THE PUBLISHER

Physica Status Solidi C: Current Topics in Solid State Physics (Wiley)

PSS (C) covers current topics in solid state physics and is part of the Physica Status Solidi journal series.  It has a fast turn-around from submission to publication, and generally concentrates on the publication of refereed papers as part of the proceedings of a high quality international conference. It is easily accessible by most scientific search engines, and widely distributed. In terms of accessibility to the papers, there is essentially no difference between C and the other PPS journals.

PSS (C) citations can be found in WoS (Web of Science) using a Cited References Search. There were more than 1500 citations of pps (c) articles from 2005/06, which indicates an impact factor of 0.55, quite reasonable for proceedings and comparable to many engineering journals. The impact factor rises by about 10% every year. The journal is part of the ISI Web of Knowledge as being listed in the separate database ISI Proceedings (accessible if the corresponding institution subscribes to that database). Citation data may also be retrieved from Scopus or Google Scholar, and the journal is covered by most major abstracting & indexing services such as INSPEC or Chemical Abstracts. The visibility of pss (c) is fully comparable to that of pss (a) or (b). Full-text downloads currently range at the impressive number of 350,000. While not listed as a SCI journal, pps (c) enjoys the same accessibility and dissemination of research results as (a) and (b).