Nano Select

About Nano Select

Nano Select — Journal Profile

Nano Select is an open access journal from Wiley-VCH, launched in 2020, covering fundamental and applied research across materials science and nanoscience. Wiley describes it as an author-friendly open access platform whose broad scope spans disciplines with both academic and industrial relevance, including chemistry, physics, biomedical science, environmental science, manufacturing and engineering. The journal's ISSN is 2688-4011 — recorded by the ISSN Portal as both its print and online ISSN in Wiley-VCH's own listing, and shown on the JournalsWorld record for this post — and its publisher of record is Wiley-VCH in Weinheim, Germany.

For authors, the practical profile is clear and should be stated up front: every article is open access under a CC BY licence according to DOAJ, authors retain unrestricted copyright, and an article processing charge applies on acceptance. Wiley's current charge page for the journal lists the APC as $2,790 USD / £2,130 GBP / €2,420 EUR, with a waiver for the Comment article type and automatic waivers or discounts for corresponding authors in countries on Wiley's waivers and discounts list. DOAJ records an average of 14 weeks from submission to publication. No submission fee or page charge applies, Wiley states.

Quick Facts

Positioning: A Broad, Selective Home for Nano and Materials Work

Nano Select was created inside a large Wiley materials and nanoscience portfolio that also contains long-established, highly selective titles. A broad-scope open access journal in that portfolio serves a different purpose from a flagship. Wiley's own description stresses breadth and author-friendliness: fundamental and applied research, academic and industrial relevance, and a welcome for experimental and theoretical work, for specialised or technical studies, and even for negative results that have a strong and clear motivation. That last point is worth underlining, because negative and confirmatory results are difficult to place in prestige-driven venues, yet they are essential to a reliable scientific record — especially in nanoscience, where synthesis conditions, characterisation choices and scale-up behaviour determine whether a reported effect can be reproduced.

The journal also states an evidential standard: original research should present a complete dataset with fully evidenced conclusions, and all articles undergo strict peer review to ensure they are scientifically sound. Read together, those two statements describe a soundness-and-completeness model rather than a novelty-only model. A technically strong paper that carefully characterises a material, a device or a process — and that reports what did not work as honestly as what did — is the kind of contribution this positioning invites. Authors should frame submissions accordingly: completeness, reproducibility and clear motivation matter more in the cover letter and the discussion than claims of revolutionising a field.

Scope in Detail

Fundamental nanoscience and materials science

The core territory is the science of materials at and below the microscale: nanomaterials synthesis and characterisation, nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces, thin films, colloids and assemblies, and the physical and chemical principles that govern their behaviour. DOAJ's keywords for the journal — nanotechnology, materials science, microscale, nanoscience — confirm that the micro-to-nano range is intentional, not a naming accident. Work that connects structure to property, with rigorous characterisation, sits at the centre of the scope.

Chemistry and physics of materials

Chemical synthesis routes, catalysis, energy materials, electronic and optical materials, and computational or theoretical studies are all within the disciplines Wiley lists. Theoretical and modelling papers are explicitly welcomed alongside experimental work, provided the conclusions are fully evidenced — for a simulation study, that means validation, sensitivity to assumptions, and a clear statement of what the model can and cannot predict.

Biomedical and environmental applications

Biomedical science and environmental science are named disciplines in the journal's description. That covers nanomedicine-adjacent materials work, biosensing, diagnostic and therapeutic materials, as well as materials for sensing, remediation, water treatment and environmental monitoring. Authors in these areas should be especially careful with claims: a material that performs in a laboratory assay is not yet a clinical or field solution, and reviewers will expect the discussion to respect that distance.

Manufacturing and engineering

The inclusion of manufacturing and engineering distinguishes the journal from purely discovery-oriented titles. Scale-up, process engineering, device fabrication, reliability and application-driven studies belong here. Industrial relevance is treated as a virtue rather than a compromise, so a well-documented process improvement or a carefully benchmarked device study can be a strong fit even when the underlying science is incremental.

Article Types and What Reviewers Look For

Wiley states that the journal publishes original research and review-type articles. Reviews in a broad-scope journal succeed when they organise a fast-moving area around a question or a comparison, rather than listing papers chronologically. Original research succeeds when the dataset is complete: appropriate controls, characterisation sufficient to support the claims, statistics or uncertainty handled honestly, and conclusions that match the evidence presented. The journal's explicit welcome for negative results with strong motivation should be taken literally — a negative-result paper still needs a complete dataset and a clear reason why the community needs the finding on record.

Peer review is recorded by DOAJ as anonymous peer review, and the journal checks for plagiarism. DOAJ's average of 14 weeks from submission to publication gives authors a planning baseline, but individual timelines vary with reviewer availability and revision rounds. Authors should build revision time into grant and thesis schedules rather than treating the average as a deadline.

Open Access Economics: APC, Waivers and Institutional Accounts

Nano Select is fully open access: articles are immediately free to read, download and share on publication. The cost of that model is the APC listed above, payable when an article is accepted and published. Wiley notes that the Comment article type is waived, that automatic waivers or discounts apply to corresponding authors from institutions in countries and locations on its waivers and discounts list without the author needing to take action, and that a Wiley Open Access Account held by the corresponding author's institution, funder or society may cover all or part of the charge, with eligibility based on the submission date and an active arrangement at publication readiness. There are no submission fees or page charges.

Three practical steps follow. First, check before submission — not after acceptance — whether your institution has a Wiley open access arrangement that covers this journal, and confirm which author must be the corresponding author for eligibility. Second, if you are applying for a waiver or discount outside an institutional account, confirm the position with the publisher in writing. Third, note Wiley's tax statement: quoted prices exclude VAT, GST or other sales taxes, which may be charged in addition where required by law, and tax-exemption documentation is handled during the payment process. Funders increasingly require CC BY licensing for open access outputs; DOAJ records this journal's licence as CC BY with authors retaining unrestricted copyright, which aligns with the requirements of many funder open-access policies — but each author should verify their own funder's exact conditions.

Indexing, Metrics and a Necessary Caution

DOAJ lists the journal, which confirms its open-access practices, licensing, archiving in CLOCKSS and Portico, and its DOI-based identification. Beyond that directory fact, this profile deliberately does not assert a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, SJR value or quartile for Nano Select, because no such figure was verified from Clarivate, Scopus or SCImago during preparation. The journal is young — launched in 2020 — and young journals' metrics change quickly as citation windows mature, so any number copied from an aggregator page risks being out of date or, worse, belonging to a different title with a similar name. Nano Select must not be confused with ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Nanoscale or Nanomaterials, all of which are separate journals from other publishers with their own ISSNs and metrics. Authors who need a metric for an evaluation should take it directly from the issuing database, note the year of the metric, and keep a dated record.

What can be said from primary sources is structural rather than numerical: the journal is published by Wiley-VCH, a major scientific publisher; it is monthly according to the ISSN Portal; it uses DOIs; and it is preserved in two recognised dark-archive services. Those are meaningful signals of publishing infrastructure, even though they are not citation metrics.

Who Should Submit — and What to Check First

The best-fit author has a complete, well-characterised study in materials science or nanoscience that needs a reputable open access home with a broad readership — including work that is specialised, technical, applied or negative in outcome, provided the motivation is strong and the evidence is complete. Interdisciplinary teams spanning chemistry, physics, biomedicine, environmental science and engineering should find the scope welcoming, because breadth is the journal's stated design rather than an exception.

Before submitting, check four things on the journal's current Wiley pages: the aims and scope wording, because portfolio journals periodically refine their scope; the current APC, because charges are revised; your institution's open access account status; and the author guidelines for article types, data and supporting-information requirements. Data practices deserve particular attention in nanoscience: characterisation data, synthesis parameters and safety information for nanomaterials handling are part of a complete record, and reviewers may ask for them even when a checklist does not.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Nano Select open access?

Yes. Wiley and DOAJ both describe it as fully open access, publishing since 2020, with articles immediately free to read, download and share.

What is the APC?

Wiley's charge page lists $2,790 USD / £2,130 GBP / €2,420 EUR, with Comment articles waived and waivers or discounts for eligible countries and institutional accounts. Confirm the current figure on Wiley's site before submitting, as charges change.

What licence do articles use?

DOAJ records CC BY, with authors retaining unrestricted copyright.

What is the ISSN and publisher?

ISSN 2688-4011; publisher Wiley-VCH, Germany.

Does it publish negative results?

Wiley states the journal welcomes negative results that have a strong, clear motivation, alongside experimental, theoretical, specialised and technical studies.

How long does publication take?

DOAJ gives an average of 14 weeks from submission to publication. Individual papers vary.

Profile prepared for JournalsWorld from Wiley, DOAJ and ISSN Portal sources. Confirm scope, charges and author guidelines on the journal's Wiley pages before submitting.

Nano Select in the Wider Publishing Landscape

Authors choosing a journal in nanoscience face a crowded landscape of titles with similar names, overlapping scopes and very different economics. Nano Select's distinguishing combination, on the evidence of its publisher and directory records, is fourfold: it is fully open access from its 2020 launch rather than converted later; it is broad across materials science and nanoscience rather than confined to a single material family or technique; it explicitly welcomes applied, specialised, technical and negative-result work alongside fundamental studies; and it sits inside a large publisher's open access account system, so many authors will find some or all of its charge covered by an institutional arrangement. None of those features, on its own, is unique. Together they define the decision an author is actually making: trading the narrow prestige signal of a highly selective subscription title for reach, speed of dissemination, licence freedom and a scope that can accommodate interdisciplinary or applied datasets without forcing the paper into a single-discipline frame.

That trade-off should be assessed honestly for each manuscript. A result that redefines a field may belong in the most selective venue its authors can reach. A rigorous study that completes a picture — a synthesis route characterised end to end, a device benchmarked against realistic conditions, a well-motivated negative finding that saves other groups months of work — may serve its authors and its readers better in a broad open access journal where it will be found by chemists, physicists, biomedical researchers and engineers alike. The journal's own standard, a complete dataset with fully evidenced conclusions, is the right test to apply before choosing: if the dataset is complete and the conclusions match it, the paper is the kind the journal says it wants.

Data, Reproducibility and Responsible Reporting

Nanoscience has a well-documented reproducibility sensitivity: particle size distributions, surface chemistry, batch variation, instrument settings and environmental conditions can all change a result, and papers that omit them cannot be rebuilt by another laboratory. Authors submitting to Nano Select should therefore treat the methods and supporting information as part of the scientific claim, not as an appendix of last resort. Report how materials were made and measured, how many independent samples or batches were tested, how outliers were handled, and what the limits of each characterisation technique are for the material in question. For biomedical and environmental work, report dose, exposure and control conditions with the same care, and state plainly where laboratory conditions differ from the conditions of the intended application.

Review-type articles carry a parallel responsibility: to represent disagreement and failed approaches in a field, not only its successes. A review that explains why a promising material class has not yet translated — stability, toxicity, cost, manufacturability — gives readers more value than a catalogue of record performance figures, and it matches the journal's stated interest in scientifically sound, complete accounts. Editors and reviewers applying a strict peer review process will look for that balance, and authors who build it in from the first draft will usually move through review faster than authors who add it under pressure.

A Final Checklist Before Submission

Confirm the journal's current aims and scope and article types on its Wiley pages. Confirm the current APC figure and whether a Wiley Open Access Account at your institution, funder or society covers it, and confirm any waiver or discount in writing. Confirm that your funder's open access conditions are met by the CC BY licence recorded for the journal. Prepare the manuscript for anonymous peer review as the author guidelines require, check that the dataset is complete and that every conclusion is evidenced in the figures and supporting information, and keep a dated record of the submission. With those steps done, Nano Select offers a clearly documented route — 14 weeks on average from submission to publication according to DOAJ — to an open, preserved and widely discoverable home for materials and nanoscience research.

One further consideration is discoverability after publication. Because articles are open access under CC BY, they can be shared by authors on institutional repositories, research networks and course pages without the embargoes that complicate subscription publishing, subject always to the licence terms and to accurate attribution. That freedom increases the chance that work will be read outside its home discipline — a materials paper read by an environmental engineer, a sensing paper read by a clinician — which is exactly the cross-disciplinary audience the journal's broad scope is designed to reach. Authors can support that outcome with a title and abstract written for neighbouring fields, keywords that use the vocabulary of more than one discipline, and figures that remain intelligible when shared on their own. In a broad-scope open access journal, those choices are part of the publication strategy, not an afterthought.

Before submitting, authors should also save a dated copy of the journal's scope, charges and licence pages, so that the terms under which they submitted can be shown later to a funder, an institution or an evaluator without relying on memory or on a third-party summary of Wiley's policies.