Over the past year, we have celebrated CORROSION journal’s 75th anniversary with special content and invited articles. Stepping back for a minute, we reflect on the journal’s history and take a look forward to some of the exciting new things on the horizon.
CORROSION journal traces its beginnings back to 1945, when less than two years after the creation of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (now NACE International), the journal was created as a way of providing association members with technical articles (including conference papers) and membership news. As the association grew (and the scope of the term “corrosion” alongside it), CORROSION evolved into the peer-reviewed journal it is today.
This evolution is reflected in the topics published in each of our 75 volumes. For example, in the 1940s and 1950s, much of the journal’s focus was on cathodic protection in pipelines. Today, articles are published on a variety of topics, from atmospheric corrosion to tribocorrosion, and affect a wide breadth of industries, materials, and processes.
Along with the evolution of the topics published in CORROSION, there have been sections of the journal that have been added over the decades. These have ranged from a Vanguard article series dedicated to reviewing significant problem areas and their solutions and a 70th birthday series honoring notable corrosion scientists during the 1970s; to publication of select papers by NACE award winners and critical reviews of corrosion science and engineering added during the 1980s; to Corrosion Communications that highlight short, noteworthy studies and receive a fast-tracked peer-review and Student Poster Research Letters that are written by the first-place recipients of NACE’s Student Poster Session in the 2010s. CORROSION has also published book reviews, news, discussions of recent articles, letters to the editor, editorials, and more throughout the decades.
In the past decade, CORROSION began publishing themed issues as a benefit to our readers. These have covered topics such as risk management, magnesium, biocorrosion, environmentally assisted cracking, and steel and hydrogen. Next year, CORROSION will publish two special issues: one dedicated to research presented at the Australasian Corrosion Association (ACA)’s 2019 International Symposium and one dedicated to research on magnesium.
To supplement the articles published in the journal’s issues, CORROSION recently has started hosting NACE Podcasts’ first series, the Flint Phenomenon, discussing the water crises that have been plaguing the United States in recent years. There will be more episodes that explore other areas (both in the United States and other parts of the world) that are suffering from corrosion-related issues in their drinking water distribution systems and ways that these issues can be prevented and mitigated.
CORROSION will host additional podcast series in 2020, exploring topics like corrosion in bridges and additive manufacturing. These podcasts will provide additional background and perspectives on the topics, tying into the in-depth research that can be found in the journal’s issues. More information about these series will be available in the coming months.
We are excited to continue bringing quality, peer-reviewed articles to you each month. Thank you to all of CORROSION’s authors, editors, and reviewers. Without you, CORROSION would not be the journal that it is today.
