On 10 April 2025, the journal Clean Technologies (ISSN: 2571-8797) held its Editorial Board meeting, chaired by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Patricia Luis Alconero. Six Editorial Board members attended the session. We extend our gratitude to all participants for their valuable contributions and look forward to engaging more Editorial Board members in future meetings.

The meeting commenced with a review of the journal’s performance in 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, covering the following areas:

• Key journal statistics;
• Editorial process;
• Overview of the Editorial Board.

To promote the development of the journal, the discussion turned to the following topics:

• Further work plan;
• Hot topics in the field;
• Some topics that need to be avoided;
• Scope update on hydrogen production and emphasizing quantifiable “clean” impact;
• Some suggestions from EBMs.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

• Prof. Dr. Patricia Luis Alconero, (Editor-in-Chief), Materials and Process Engineering, UCLouvain, Place Sainte Barbe 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;
• Prof. Dr. Dmitry Yu. Murzin, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, 20500 Turku, Finland;
• Dr. Nick Papanikolaou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67132 Xanthi, Greece;
• Dr. Diganta Bhusan Das, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering (AACME), Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK;
• Dr. Pedro Fernandes, ¹ Faculty of Engineering, Universidade Lusófona, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal; ² iBB – Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal;
• Prof. Nicolas Kalogerakis, School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece;
• Prof. Dr. Aurora Garea Vazquez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, E.T.S. de Ingenieros Industriales y de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda Los Castros s/n, 46. 39005 Santander, Spain.

The latest official CiteScore (2023 Scopus data) for Clean Technologies is 6.1, ranking Q1 in the “Environmental Science: Environmental Science (miscellaneous)” category. The current Impact Factor of Clean Technologies is 4.1 (2023), ranking Q2 in the “Engineering, Environmental” category and “Environmental Sciences” category. 

To access more journal statistics, please click here. 

Clean Technologies Editorial Office