SFIT LIRC – IndiaTech Insight: Kaveri Vaaman: India’s First Mutant Banana

🌱 Kaveri Vaaman: India’s First Mutant Banana and the Power of Indigenous Research

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has achieved a remarkable milestone in agricultural science with the development of Kaveri Vaaman (Trombay Banana Mutant‑9 / TBM‑9) — India’s first-ever mutant banana variety. This achievement marks BARC’s first fruit crop released under its mutation‑breeding programme and adds to its legacy of 72 improved crop varieties released to date.

At first glance, a banana might seem like a simple fruit, but Kaveri Vaaman demonstrates the profound impact of scientific research on real-world challenges, particularly in agriculture, sustainability, and community welfare.

Read more about it here: https://dae.gov.in/barc-unveils-first-mutant-banana-variety-to-benefit-farmers/

📚 Knowledge Connect (30): Call for Papers for Special Issues from Science Direct

 

• Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-16)
  Guest editors: Masashi Shimada et.,al.

  Fusion Engineering and Design • Impact Factor 2.0 • CiteScore 3.7

  Submission deadline: 31 December 2025
• International Astronautical Congress 2025 (76th IAC)
  Guest editor: Zheng Hong (George) Zhu

  Acta Astronautica • Impact Factor 3.4 • CiteScore 7.3

  Submission deadline: 31 March 2026
• Designing Digital Literacy for an Aging Population – A Systemic Perspective
  Guest editors: Cees de Bont, Andre Liem, Nie Zichao

  Design Studies • Impact Factor 4.8 • CiteScore 10.5

  Submission deadline: 31 December 2025
• Measurement and Digital Twin
  Guest editors: Loredana Cristaldi , Giambattista Gruosso

  Measurement: Digitalization

  Submission deadline: 30 December 2025
• Resilient Communities in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities
  Guest editors: Milad Roohi, Gian Paolo Cimellaro

  Resilient Cities and Structures • CiteScore 5.9

  Submission deadline: 31 May 2026
• Desalination Science and Technology
  Guest editors: Ho Kyong Shon, Tao He

  Desalination • Impact Factor 9.8 • CiteScore 14.3

  Submission deadline: 30 October 2026
• Artificial Intelligence for Innovative and Sustainable Powertrain Developments
  Guest editors: Luciano Rolando, Chiara Guido

  Transportation Engineering • CiteScore 9.3

  Submission deadline: 25 April 2026
• Call for Papers for Special Issue on Emerging Frontiers in Physical and Embodied Artificial Intelligence

  Journal of Information and Intelligence

  Submission deadline: 15 March 2026
• Call for Papers: Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence-Native Radio Access Networks (AI-RAN): Foundations, Methodologies, and Applications

  Journal of Information and Intelligence

  Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
• Special Issue for 8th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
  Guest editors: Aysegul ASKAN, Elçin GÖK, Altuğ ERBERİK, Mustafa Kerem KOÇKAR

  Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering • Impact Factor 4.6 • CiteScore 7.9

  Submission deadline: 15 November 2026
• Modern Kernel Methods and Applications: In Honor of Robert Schaback’s 80th Birthday
  Guest editors: Leevan Ling, Stefano De Marchi, Christian Rieger, Emma Perracchione, Robert Schaback

  Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements • Impact Factor 4.1 • CiteScore 6.6

  Submission deadline: 31 March 2026
• Evolving Multi-View Learning: From Theory to High-Impact Applications
  Guest editors: Jie Wen, Shizhe Hu, Lusi Li

  Pattern Recognition • Impact Factor 7.6 • CiteScore 15.8

  Submission deadline: 31 October 2026
• Special Issue in Memory of Professor Hani Mahmassani
  Guest editors: Jiwon Kim, Alireza Talebpour, Ali Zockaie, Meead Saberi, Samer Hamdar

  Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies • Impact Factor 7.9 • CiteScore 15.9

  Submission deadline: 30 July 2026
• Simulation-Driven Industrial Transformation: Towards Resilient, Sustainable, and Human-Centric Operations
  Guest editors: Masood Fathi, Mehdi Toloo, Ming-Lang Tseng

  Computers & Industrial Engineering • Impact Factor 6.5 • CiteScore 13.2

  Submission deadline: 30 September 2026
• 11th International Conference on Material Science & Smart Materials (MSSM), 2025 Vienna Austria
  Guest editors: Christoph Pfeifer, Karin Föttinger, Thomas Karl Hannl, Florian Benedikt

  Thermal Science and Engineering Progress • Impact Factor 5.4 • CiteScore 7.3

• Multimedia Forensics in Practice: Detecting and Interpreting Synthetic Media (MF-DISM)
  Guest editors: Marco Micheletto, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Luca Guarnera, Giulia Orrù, Enjie Ghorbel

  Computer Vision and Image Understanding • Impact Factor 3.5 • CiteScore 7.1

  Submission deadline: 31 March 2026
• Selected Papers from the 21th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2026)
  Guest editors: Renato Lo Cigno; Gianluca Rizzo; Leonardo Maccari; Omran Ayoub

  Computer Communications • Impact Factor 4.3 • CiteScore 11.5

  Submission deadline: 31 July 2026
• Next-Generation IoT Urban Computing and Mobile Networks for Sustainable and Smart Mobility
  Guest editors: Rodolfo Coutinho; Michela Meo

  Computer Communications • Impact Factor 4.3 • CiteScore 11.5

  Submission deadline: 30 April 2026
• Ocean Decade-Blue Economy
  Guest editors: Xuezheng Qin; Yuhang Pan

  Ocean & Coastal Management • Impact Factor 5.4 • CiteScore 9.8

  Submission deadline: 31 December 2029
• Application of Large Language Models in Energy Engineering and Informatics
  Guest editors: Ke Yan, Vincent Gan, Amy Trappey, Linda Xiao

  Advanced Engineering Informatics • Impact Factor 9.9 • CiteScore 13.1

  Submission deadline: 31 July 2026
• Combustion of Energetic Materials
  Guest editors: Zhongyue Zhou, Osvalda Senneca

  Applications in Energy and Combustion Science • Impact Factor 6.0 • CiteScore 7.9

  Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
• Graph-based solutions for Artificial Intelligence
  Guest editors: Domenico Ursino; Luca Virgili; Alessia Amelio; Gianluca Bonifazi; Michele Marchetti; Radu Tudor Ionescu.

  Information Sciences • Impact Factor 6.8 • CiteScore 14.4

  Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
• Advancing Thermal Energy Systems: Digital, Low-Carbon and Circular Solutions
  Guest editors: Jeng Shiun Lim, Petro Kapustenko, Olga Arsenyeva, Piotr Cisek

  Thermal Science and Engineering Progress • Impact Factor 5.4 • CiteScore 7.3

  Submission deadline: 15 March 2026
• The 11th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT-11), 15 – 18 August 2025, Beijing, China - Applied Thermal Engineering
  Guest editors: Lixin Cheng, Jinliang Xu, Jader Barbosa, Christos Markides

  Applied Thermal Engineering • Impact Factor 6.9 • CiteScore 11.0

  Submission deadline: 01 March 2026
• 11th Applied Energy Symposium and Forum on Low-Carbon Cities and Urban Energy Systems
  Guest editors: Jinyue Yan, Weijun Gao, Xiaodan Shi, Zhiling Guo, Zhenjia Lin

  Advances in Applied Energy • Impact Factor 13.8 • CiteScore 32.6

  Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
• 11th Applied Energy Symposium and Forum on Low-Carbon Cities and Urban Energy Systems
  Guest editors: Jinyue Yan, Weijun Gao, Xiaodan Shi, Zhiling Guo, Zhenjia Lin

  Applied Energy • Impact Factor 11.0 • CiteScore 20.1

  Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
• DYCOPS 2025 Special Issue
  Guest editors: Ali Mesbah; Rudiyanto Gunawan; Miroslav Fikar; Radoslav Paulen.

  Journal of Process Control • Impact Factor 3.9 • CiteScore 7.1

  Submission deadline: 02 January 2026
• Thematic Sessions of the 18th International Clay Conference
  Guest editors: Dr. Peng Yuan, Dr. Pilar Aranda, Dr. Juraj Bujdak, Dr. Giuseppe Lazzara, Dr. Vanessa Prevot, Dr. Jon Otto Fossum, Dr. Erwan Paineau, Dr. Alastair Marsh, Dr. Ilda Tole and Dr. Emmanuel Tertre

  Applied Clay Science • Impact Factor 5.8 • CiteScore 10.3

  Submission deadline: 30 April 2026
• Intelligent Maintenance for Robots: Advances in Prognostics, Health Management, and Self-Healing Manufacturing Systems
  Guest editors: Ruqiang Yan, Peng Wang, Weihua Li, Mien Van

  Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing • Impact Factor 11.4 • CiteScore 24.3

  Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
• Tribology for a Sustainable Future: Surface Design, Advanced Manufacturing, and Functional Materials – Selected papers from NordTrib2026
  Guest editors: Auezhan Amanov, Vilma Ratia-Hanby

  Wear • Impact Factor 6.1 • CiteScore 10.4

  Submission deadline: 31 August 2026
• Additive Manufacturing Letters Special Issue of International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (ICAM)
  Guest editors: Nima Shamsaei, Nik Hrabe, Mohsen Seifi

  Additive Manufacturing Letters • Impact Factor 4.7 • CiteScore 6.3

  Submission deadline: 28 February 2026
• The 11th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT-11), 15 – 18 August, 2025, Beijing, China
  Guest editors: Lixin Cheng, Jinliang Xu, Jader Barbosa

  Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science • Impact Factor 3.3 • CiteScore 6.3

  Submission deadline: 01 March 2026
• Special Section on the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition
  Guest editors: Akram Bennour, Imad Rida, Mohammed Hussein Al-Sarem

  Pattern Recognition Letters • Impact Factor 3.3 • CiteScore 9.5

  Submission deadline: 15 February 2026
• Special Section on the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICRPS 2025)
  Guest editors: Sergio S. Velastín, Romina Torres, Sebastián Moreno

  Pattern Recognition Letters • Impact Factor 3.3 • CiteScore 9.5

  Submission deadline: 20 March 2026
• Special issue on Smart Energy Systems SESAAU2025 - Smart Energy
  Guest editors: Brian Vad Mathiesen; Wen Liu; Ralf Roman Schmidt

  Smart Energy • Impact Factor 5.0 • CiteScore 12.2

  Submission deadline: 28 February 2026
• Fracture Mechanics in Structural Integrity Assessment: Recent Advances
  Guest editors: Aleksandar Sedmak, Liviu Marsavina

  Engineering Fracture Mechanics • Impact Factor 5.3 • CiteScore 8.6

  Submission deadline: 15 January 2026
• The 32nd international conference on intelligent computing in engineering (EG-ICE): AI-Driven Collaboration for Sustainable and Resilient Built Environments
  Guest editors: Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Bimal Kumar

  Advanced Engineering Informatics • Impact Factor 9.9 • CiteScore 13.1

  Submission deadline: 31 May 2026
• Alternative Energy Sources, Materials & Technologies, 2025 (RENE)
  Guest editors: Aleksandar GEORGIEV; Yuehong SU; Radhamanohar AEPURU

  Renewable Energy • Impact Factor 9.1 • CiteScore 17.6

  Submission deadline: 10 December 2025
• Renewable Energy in Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems 2025
  Guest editors: Poul Alberg Østergaard; Neven Duic

  Renewable Energy • Impact Factor 9.1 • CiteScore 17.6

  Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
• Intelligence and Service Orchestration in Next-Generation Mobile Networks
  Guest editors: Abderrahim Benslimane; Cristiano Bonato Both; Giang T. Nguyen; Giovanni Stanco; Stefania Zinno

  Computer Communications • Impact Factor 4.3 • CiteScore 11.5

  Submission deadline: 28 February 2026
• 9th International Conference on Advanced COmputational Methods in ENgineering and Applied Mathematics (ACOMEN2025)
  Guest editors: Geuzaine Christophe, Michael Ruzhansky, Karel K Van Bockstal, Iuliu Sorin S. Pop

  Computers & Mathematics with Applications • Impact Factor 2.5 • CiteScore 5.0

  Submission deadline: 31 March 2026
• The transformational role of philosophy in project management
  Guest editors: Efrosyni Konstantinou, David Carl Wilson, Henk den Uijl, Ralf Müller

  International Journal of Project Management • Impact Factor 7.5 • CiteScore 14.2

  Submission deadline: 30 September 2026
• Modular Composite Structures: Advances in Design, Processing, Demountability, and Performance
  Guest editors: Rohola Rahnavard, Hélder D. Craveiro, Hai-Ting Li

  Structures • Impact Factor 4.3 • CiteScore 6.5

  Submission deadline: 01 June 2026
• Transforming Freight and Goods Movement
  Guest editors: Prof. Marlon G. Boarnet, Prof. Maged M. Dessouky

  Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives • Impact Factor 3.8 • CiteScore 7.9

  Submission deadline: 26 December 2025