http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc CMC fr http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=82 Editorial Board Chief Editor – éric Pirard – University of Liège – Belgium Vice-Chief Editor – Philippe Nimmegeers – University of Antwerp – Belgium Associate Editors Jean-Marie Raquez – University of Mons – Belgium Aurore Richel – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech / University of Liège – Belgium Advisory Board Ayse Asatekin – Tufts University (Boston) – United States of America Carmela Aprile – University of Namur – Belgium Jean-Pierre Birat – IF Steelman/University of Science and Technology Beijing – France/China Alexandre Chagnes – Université de Lorraine – France Alexandra Chaumonnot – IFP énergies nouvelles (Lyon) – France Rudi Cloots – University of Liège – Belgium Damien Debecker – Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) – Belgium Philippe Lecomte – FNRS/University of Liège – Belgium Sylvie Maury – IFP énergies nouvelles (Lyon) – France Franck Mücklich – Universität des Saarlandes – Germany Thomas Pardoen – University of Louvain (UCL) – Belgium Markus Reuter – Curtin University Perth – Australia Mathilde Sibeaud – IFP énergies nouvelles (Lyon) – France Karel Van Acker – KULeuven – Belgium Steven Van Passel – University of Antwerp – Belgium Editorial Office Jonathan Dumont – University of Liège – Belgium Missions and Structure 1. Editorial Board Missions CMC’s Editorial Board has the following responsibilities: Scientific management of the journal: the Editorial Board takes the key decisions that orient the scientific direction of the journal; The biblio-economic management of the jou Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=82 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=103 On Open Science CMC is part of the broader Open Science movement, which aims to (re)introduce more open, horizontal, transparent and community-oriented practices into science. Several principles stem from this positioning: Openness and accountability: promoting open, transparent, non-profit and community-led initiatives; Diversity and balance: developing diverse publishing ecosystems that include both established players and emerging initiatives, with a specific focus on bibliodiversity issues (languages, disciplines, etc.); Sustainability: clear governance and transparency of funding arrangements; Collective impact: benefits for open research at the institutional, national or international level and the transition to more economically and ethically viable models. This UNESCO diagram summarises other key principles. Pillars of Open Science, UNESCO (2021)1 On Slow Science CMC also aligns itself with the principles of Slow Science as set out in the Slow Science Manifesto,2 which can be summarised as follows: Science is not a business Science at the service of society as a whole Education and science for all – knowledge as commons Accountability in the knowledge society versus profitability in the knowledge economy This has an impact on our vision of qualitative publication. As the manifesto quotes: “Academic freedom is seriously in danger not only by privatization of research and education, but also by the logic of management that has taken hold of the university. Output ba Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=103 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=81 CMC is a Diamond Open Access journal. This means that, in order to remain open to the world, CMC cannot rely on Gold Open Access funding methods (APCs, subscriptions), as it must remain free of charge for authors and readers. The journal is supported by institutional partners to ensure its stability and longevity. Its current funders are: If you wish to support CMC, please have a look at its Donation Programme. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=81 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=83 Circular Materials and Chemistry – A Cross-Disciplinary Journal (CMC) focuses on Circularity, Circular Chemistry, and Life Cycles of Materials. It aims to investigate how chemistry and materials production can be developed according to ecological, environmental and societal principles. In just a few years, Circularity has become a prominent way of looking at materials and chemistry.1 It addresses key issues for the design of post-industrial economies and societies, as it involves the invention of less polluting and less energy demanding production processes and materials that are less harmful to the environment and ecosystems, and the incorporation of these materials into circular life cycles. In this respect, CMC embraces the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s “Butterfly” diagram vision of circularity, which encompasses the life cycles of bio- and non-bio materials connected with the economy and society. CMC is based on three fundamental thematic pillars: 1. Materials and Processes, 2. Economy and 3. Society. Indeed, Circular Chemistry is closely linked to economy and industrial transformation, and more generally to the social impact of new materials on people’s lives, behaviours, perceptions and conceptions. CMC aims to encourage interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary reflection and study between these three pillars. Therefore, CMC welcomes papers on scientific advances in the field of materials, and the technologies and processes to create them, as well as on economic and soci Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=83 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=85 CMC’s peer review policy is designed to ensure the highest level of scientific quality and excellence. To this end, CMC’s reviewers are carefully selected from among the best international specialists in the fields and subfields covered. Additionally, upon receipt, articles submitted to the journal are carefully screened by the Editorial Office to ensure that they comply with scientific ethics. CMC’s peer review policy is also innovative, proposing to authors and reviewers a hybrid system that combines a classic single-blind evaluation with some forms of open peer review. The whole peer review process will be carried out as quickly as possible. The peer review process works as follows: Step 1: Receipt of an article - 15 days: The Editorial Office will first check the article to reject it if it is not within the scope of the journal, if it does not have the minimum quality required for a scientific publication, and if it violates the basic rules of scientific ethics: conflict of interest, plagiarism, massive use of AI, etc. The editorial team commits to responding within 15 days as to whether the text should be rejected or peer-reviewed. Step 2: Deposit of the preprint - if it has successfully passed step 1, the article is immediately deposited as a preprint on the journal’s platform; a DOI is assigned to each preprint; after the peer review process is complete, preprints of final rejected articles are kept on the platform, while preprints of accepted articles are removed as t Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=85 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=100 Submissions to the CMC can be made using the Open Journal System (OJS). Click on the following link to be redirected to the platform : https://ojs.uliege.be/index.php/cmc Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=102 If you wish to support CMC, you can do it through its Donation Programme. This programme is intended for university libraries and institutions. Developing a genuine alternative to commercial publishing models requires a proactive and committed approach from the scientific community and institutions. Several donation levels are available, enabling each institution to contribute according to its means: Ally: €3,000 per year Protector: €5,000 per year Guardian: €10,000 per year By participating in this donation scheme and supporting the project, partners will enable CMC to be made available to the rest of the world free of charge, thereby demonstrating their commitment to reclaiming control of scientific communication and developing Diamond Open Access as an alternative to commercial publishing. Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=102 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=84 CMC is committed to ethical principles in relation to its impact factor strategy, use of AI, diversity, non-involvement of political and private interests and the core principles of the Diamond OA model. CMC is careful to develop an impact factor strategy that takes into account the intrinsic quality of the published research. In particular, CMC publishes papers that propose an original vision of circularity, based on sound scientific and methodological principles and a solid experimental approach, without the need for broader scope. CMC also welcomes papers reporting negative results. CMC encourages a reasoned approach to AI. Each author should indicate the contribution to their paper, following the CRediT taxonomy. CMC attaches particular importance to diversity in its broadest sense, both on its boards and in its publications. The range of approaches, topics and research covered by CMC reflects the full diversity of the field of circularity. In addition, CMC avoids all forms of discrimination based on gender and sex, as well as ethnic, national or social origin. The selection of boards members and reviewers is based exclusively on scientific criteria. CMC vows to maintain its distance from any form of political influence. It is crucial that scientific independence must be defended from political and ideological agendas. As a European-based journal, CMC follows the European rules that guarantee academic and intellectual freedom, as well as and freedom of expression in scie Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=84 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=98 In the 2010s, the scientific community invented the Diamond Open Access publishing model in response to abuses in the scientific publishing sector, which is dominated by commercial publishers. Numerous horizontal mergers took place in the field of scientific publishing in the 1990s and again in the 2000s with the rise of open access. This has led to a situation in which several international groups (e.g. Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, Wiley) now have a monopoly on disseminating scientific knowledge and are abusing their economic dominance. The Diamond OA model was devised in response by the scientific community. It aims to: To return control of scientific dissemination to researchers, as this is an integral part of the scientific process; To ensure that the resources provided by research-funding institutions (often public and therefore taxpayer-funded) effectively serve the objective of scientific dissemination and the implementation of higher-quality scientific criteria. To preserve the intellectual property rights of researchers over their published work. The Diamond OA model is essentially an ethical approach to scientific publication.1 It is a non-profit model that responds only to scientific considerations. Designed by researchers for researchers, it aims to respect all stakeholders, including authors, readers and institutions. The Diamond Open Access principles can be summarised as follows: A business model that does not charge authors Article Processing Charges (APCs); doe Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=98 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=95 On 22 May 2025, the University of Namur hosted the closing event for the interuniversity FWB-COARA project. On this occasion, CMC: Circular Materials and Chemistry – A Cross-Disciplinary Journal was presented to a wide academic and scientific audience for the first time. The event also provided an opportunity for a significant proportion of the researchers who took part in the editorial and advisory boards of CMC to gather for the first time. It was a wonderful opportunity to share our views on the journal in person and to receive live feedback on over a year’s work on it. Finally, the event featured a roundtable discussion about the future of Diamond Open Access, bringing together experts from various fields: Laurence El Khouri (CNRS, France), David Oliva Uribe (UNESCO), Johan Rooryck (DIAMAS project, Netherlands) and Marc Vanholsbeeck (BELSPO, Belgium). The roundtable emphasised the need for national coordination of Diamond OA initiatives to strengthen the Diamond ecosystem. The current takeover of science in the USA could also impact the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the near future. As Johan Rooryck emphasised: “What will stop someone like Elon Musk from buying Elsevier or Wiley tomorrow, and therefore controlling the dissemination of scientific knowledge?” In this regard, it is crucial to expand and strengthen the Diamond OA ecosystem. CMC is working towards this goal. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/cmc/index.php?id=95