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FORMA is an official scientific periodical of Society for Science on Form, Japan, and accepts scientific papers concerning Form from researchers of the world as well as the members of the society.
The objective of FORMA is to provide an interdisciplinary medium for the publication of scientific papers to describe, to understand or to analyse Form. FORMA includes original papers, review articles and letters.
Please refer to the instructions at the end of each volume when preparing manuscripts.
Members (Japanese) of the Society are entitled to receive regular issues of FORMA in exchange for their membership fee.
All volumes of FORMA are now available through J-STAGE, Japan's open access platform for academic journals. This provides free access to the complete archive of published articles.
FORMA is an official scientific periodical of Society for Science on Form, Japan. It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and letters on Form in a wide range of fields including mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, design, and related areas.
The following editorial board is responsible for the scientific quality and editorial policy of FORMA.
| Role | Name | Country | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| Editor-in-Chief | Hiroki Takada | Japan | Mathematical Physics |
| Managing Editor | Yasuyuki Matsuura | Japan | Biomedical Engineering |
| Name | Country | Field |
|---|---|---|
| G. Bernroider | Austria | Biology |
| S. Fateh | USA | Medicine |
| D. Kanikowska | Poland | Pathophysiology |
| J. Gielis | Belgium | Mathematics |
| P. K. Maini | UK | Mathematics |
| T. Tarnai | Hungary | Geometry |
| Name | Country | Field |
|---|---|---|
| Y. Hidaka | Japan | Physics |
| H. Honda | Japan | Biophysics |
| F. Kinoshita | Japan | Information Engineering |
| H. Kitaoka | Japan | Medicine |
| T. Matsumoto | Japan | Mathematics |
| S. Murata | Japan | Mechanical Engineering |
| Y. Sato | Japan | Physics |
| T. Sugimoto | Japan | Mathematical Physics |
Members of the Editorial Advisory Board provide strategic advice on the development of the journal and help maintain its international and interdisciplinary scope.
| Name | Country | Field |
|---|---|---|
| Y. Collan | Finland | Medicine |
| Y. Fukui | Japan | Anatomy |
| Y. Furukawa | Japan | Crystal Physics |
| H. Hosoya | Japan | Chemistry |
| S. Iwata | Japan | Material Science |
| B. Kalantari | USA | Computer Science |
| K. Kitahara | Japan | Physics |
| K. Morita | Japan | Graphics |
| N. Ogawa | Japan | Physics |
| O. Sano | Japan | Physics |
| H. Shimizu | Japan | Pathology |
| T. Shiozawa | Japan | Internal Medicine |
| P. Stroeven | Netherlands | Material Science |
| K. Tanaka | Japan | Operations Research |
| M. Tanemura | Japan | Statistical Geometry |
| Y. Teshima | Japan | Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering |
| A. Toramaru | Japan | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| G. T. Toussaint | Canada | Computer Science |
| D. Ueyama | Japan | Mathematics |
| Name | Country | Field |
|---|---|---|
| K. Baba | Japan | Medicine |
| S. J. G. Gundersen | Denmark | Stereology |
| Valerie Howard | UK | Medicine |
| S. Ishizaka | Japan | Biophysics |
| R. E. Miles | Australia | Statistical Geometry |
| T. Takahashi | Japan | Medicine |
| R. Takaki | Japan | Physics |
| C. Taska | Romania | Medicine |
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Cover Page Figure: Projectile impact in sand layer. Simulated by HADES.
Title Page Figure: The asteroid grains are skeletons of Baculogypsina from The Star-Sand Beach at Taketomi in Okinawa. This photograph was used for the cover pages of volumes 1-3.
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