1. IMCS
Journal

2. About JMC Title: Journal of Membrane Computing (JMEC/JMC)
Publisher: Springer
New journal in 2019, 4 issues/year (at least 6 papers/issue)
ISSN: (electronic), (print)
Website: (Available soon)

3. About JMC Free access in 2019 and 2020 Review: Peer review
Duration: about 3 month (two rounds of review+revisions)
Submissions: (Available soon)

4. Call For Papers
Topics: all aspects of membrane computing: theories, interdisciplinary areas, applications, and implementations, etc.
Each issue: 2 review & 4 regular papers
High quality papers: no page limit
Important researchers’ papers
Contact: Gheorghe Paun (HEIC), Linqiang Pan (EIC), Gexiang Zhang (ME)

5. Journal Evaluation Criteria
Aim: indexed by ISI (SCI)
Evaluation: very strict evaluation for the first three volumes
Timeliness: Issues appear online on time
Number of articles: at least 24 articles per year

6. Journal Evaluation Criteria
Number of citations to the journal
Ranking of the journal in its category
Number of citations to authors publishing in the journal
Number of citations to members of the editorial board
Internationality of authors
Internationality of members of the editorial board

7. Worry & Suggestions Worry:
ENOUGH number of high-quality papers (especially before JMC would be indexed by ISI)
ENOUGH number of citations to authors publishing in the journal
ENOUGH number of citations to members of the editorial board

8. Worry & Suggestions Suggestions:
SELECT high-quality papers from BWMC, CMC & ACMC
AUTHORS consist of influential researchers, instead of students
CONCENTRATION on number of citations to authors, and members of the editorial board