Our scientific hero

The success and impact of a published paper in a journal such as JMRT has to be centered in a special person: our scientific hero. After many and many years of study and training to achieve a personal and professional capability the choice was to make research as a means of advancing the knowledge that fosters progress and quality of life for all of us. But, how is this process? Initially the scientist had to set up a lab (which may take years to happens) or joint or do a partnering with existing laboratories (with difficulties if you are a young scientist), then must have been after the ideas and choose one or some (since there are many attractive alternatives), enable them through projects (rejected some times), get a sponsor (with much argument), assemble the lab (usually with difficulties to maintain) and team work (unfortunately not all of them give solution, as some bring problems), coordinate these activities (remember most scientists prefers research activities rather management), develop a research (many times with frustrating initial results), write the financial report to the bureaucracy (who likes that?) and the experimental one (realizing some times that you still have to do some more experiments), discuss results with peers (most often gratifying), show the work in specialized events for which has yet to secure funding for travel, accommodation and registration, or submit the paper to a specialized journal (rejected sometimes). That is, scientists have to work hard to produce high quality papers to advance science both regionally and globally. Our acknowledgment and thanks to all of the scientific heroes who publish papers and especially to the ones that prestige the Journal of Materials Research and Technology.