Federation for International Refractory Research and Education
News
New Impact factors released for the 2 ECerS Journals!
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Impact Factors were released for the two official Journals of the European Ceramic Society:
- Journal of ECerS: 6.3
- Open Ceramics: 3.4
Both Journals also remain in the Q1 category (Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate), reflecting their continued excellence and the outstanding contributions of our authors, reviewers and editorial teams.
Special thank and huge congratulations to our 2 Editors in Chief, Jérôme Chevalier (Journal of ECerS) and Paolo Colombo (Open Ceramics) as well as their respective editorial teams for this great achievement!
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Meet us at ICR 2026 in Aachen in September!
We are pleased to inform the community that FIRE is media partner of the 2026 ICR Conference that will take place on 16th and 17th September in Aachen, Germany.
Highlight of FIRE Alumni - Mathilda Derensy - Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering, RWTH Aachen University - Germany
My interest in refractories began during my engineering studies in ceramics at ENSCI Limoges, when I discovered that the refractory specialisation offered an international research experience through the FIRE program. I quickly realised that refractories are far more complex and fascinating than simple bricks.
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Contact us for any information and/or to Become Member of FIRE: fire@ecers.org
