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Aims and scope

Aims and Scope | Ownerships and Partnerships


Aims and Scope

The Revue de Métallurgie is:

  • a journal aiming at knowledge dissemination and technology transfer, at the service of the Steel Industry and Steel Users

  • a monthly journal (11 issues per year) dedicated to the Steel Industry that addresses topics related to steelmaking and steel use

  • a centennial journal created in 1904 by H. Le Chatelier and thus representative of the great tradition of the French Metallurgy

  • a journal highly acclaimed for its technical and scientific level, with:

    • peer-reviewing for all articles
    • a specific distribution world-wide
    • an advertising medium ideal for reaching the whole community of industrial and applied iron and steel metallurgy.

Scope

  • iron and steel metallurgy processes and equipment of the steel industry
  • process control
  • steels and their use
  • general topics (measurement, control, energy, maintenance, environment, quality).

Contents

  • technical and economic information
  • review articles
  • articles on processes, new products and experimental techniques
  • advertisements

A general information section (available only in the Online Edition)

  • Meetings: schedule and information on meetings, colloquia, exhibits, fairs, etc.
  • Facts and Figures: statistics and general information on markets, French and international companies, technical news, continuing education, new products, etc.
  • Documentation: newly released books, reports from conferences.

Technical and scientific articles

  • 7 articles per issue according to an annual editorial programme

  • a balance between review articles, research articles and short communications:

    • review articles (state of the art on a specific topic)
    • original research articles dealing with technical, industrial or scientific aspects.

Ownerships and Partnerships

Publishing company

  • La Revue de Métallurgie is an independent publishing company.

  • It has the legal form of a joint-stock company whose main shareholders are the French Iron and Steel Federation (Fédération Française de l'Acier, FFA) and ARSA (part of the R&D organization of ArcelorMittal).

  • It publishes only one journal: "Revue de Métallurgie - Cahiers d'informations techniques" and a few related publications (like conference proceedings).

Partnership in the area of technology

  • The technological issues are under the technical responsability of the French Iron and Steel Technical Association (Association Technique de la Sidérurgie Française, ATS).

  • ATS organizes an annual conference in Paris called "ATS International Steelmaking Days" (Journées Sidérurgiques Internationales de l'ATS) and more than 50% of the presentations made at this conference are published by La Revue de Métallurgie.