Special issues are foreseen for papers originally published in Procedia Manufacturing, i.e. the normal proceedings of the Conference.

In particular, authors of high quality papers published in Procedia Manufacturing, as selected by FAIM2021 Scientific Committee, will be given the opportunity to substantially modify and extend them by at least 50% , so as to pass similarity test, and submit them  to :

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Taylor and Francis publishers, Impact Factor: 2.861)

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (formerly: International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems) (Springer, Impact Factor: 2.368)

Simulation (SAGE publishers, Impact Factor: 1.090)

or to high quality open access Journals:

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (MDPI publishers, Fully Open Access, has been accepted in Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index) at a 40% discount in  article processing charge.

Sensors (MDPI publishers, Fully Open Access, Impact Factor 3.275) at a 15% discount in article processing charge

Coatings (MDPI publishers, Fully Open Access, Impact Factor 2.436) at a 25% discount in article processing charge