Editorial

Starting with the seventh volume of our Journal, we have applied certain changes.

• The Global NEST Journal from now on will be issued as a quick publishing Journal i.e. from the date of submission of a paper, all the procedure of referring, correcting, proof reading and publishing will be completed in six months. This is necessary as in many scientific fronts of the environmental science and engineering we are experiencing phenomenal development and therefore the quick publishing of results is needed.

I would encourage you to submit papers on the thematic issues as well as in the general environmental field as it is indicated in the website of the Journal.

• The second innovation is the pre-publishing of the forthcoming scientific articles. This is also necessary in order to keep the six month period from submission to publication. At the same time the editors will have the chance to enrich the special issues with more papers.
• The format of the published papers has changed in order to facilitate the editing as well as to modify the quality of the text. The authors are asked to submit their papers following the new instructions which are shown in the website. This approach will reduce the time of editing, will decrease the mistakes and will reduce drastically the time required for the proof reading.
• Papers in order to be accepted for publication should contain new knowledge on the environmental science and engineering i.e. new data with critical presentation, new models, new tools, critical review of a scientific area, new engineering applications etc., and should be characterized as worth publishing by at least two referees.
• Papers will be accepted only in electronic form. All the handling of the papers will be completed through e-mail.
• The Journal will be issued electronically, www.gnest.org, as well as in hard copy. The electronic publication of each issue will be followed by publication of hard copy.

With the above changes I hope to upgrade the Global NEST Journal as it is required by the needs of our scientific field.

The Editor

Prof. T.D. Lekkas