Journal Title：Granular Matter

Although many phenomena observed in granular materials are still not yet fully understood, important contributions have been made to further our understanding using modern tools from statistical mechanics, micro-mechanics, and computational science.

These modern tools apply to disordered systems, phase transitions, instabilities or intermittent behavior and the performance of discrete particle simulations.

>> Until now, however, many of these results were only to be found scattered throughout the literature. Physicists are often unaware of the theories and results published by engineers or other fields - and vice versa.

The journal Granular Matter thus serves as an interdisciplinary platform of communication among researchers of various disciplines who are involved in the basic research on granular media. It helps to establish a common language and gather articles under one single roof that up to now have been spread over many journals in a variety of fields. Notwithstanding, highly applied or technical work is beyond the scope of this journal.

盡管許多在顆粒材料中觀察到的現象仍未完全被理解，但統計力學、微觀力學和計算科學等現代工具的使用為進一步理解做出了重要貢獻。

這些現代工具適用于無序系統、相變、不穩定性或間歇性行為以及離散粒子模擬的性能。

>>然而，到目前為止，許多這些結果只是散布在文獻中。物理學家往往不知道工程師或其他領域發表的理論和結果 - 反之亦然。

因此，《顆粒物質》雜志是參與顆粒介質基礎研究的各個學科研究人員之間的跨學科交流平臺。它有助于建立一種共同的語言，并將迄今為止分布在各個領域的許多期刊上的文章聚集在一個屋檐下。盡管如此，高度應用或技術性的工作超出了本期刊的范圍。

Granular Matter創刊于1998年，由Springer Berlin Heidelberg出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY - MECHANICS全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 較慢,6-12周 ，影響因子指數2.3，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。