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Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that investigates environmentally friendly technologies and improves traditional polluted processes, and is published quarterly online by MDPI. The journal is indexed within Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cleantechnol/indexing). The aims and scope of the journal can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cleantechnol/about.

The Clean Technologies editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which offers a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We are soliciting high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a continuous selection process throughout the year.

Proposals for a Special Issue should have a well-articulated unifying topic and reflect, on an international level, the best work in a particular research area (either an established or an important emerging area), in which future investigations may be propelled by the publication of a set of novel research papers. Hence, an international group of Guest Editors and a few high-quality planned papers are always encouraged when it comes to proposals.

Proposals for Special Issues must be sent to the Editorial Office (cleantechnol@mdpi.com) or be sent via the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/cleantechnol.

Information to be provided in a proposal:

• A 200–400-word summary that clearly states the significance, novelty, technical advancement, and adherence to the scope of the journal of the proposed topic;
• 5–10 keywords on the topic;
• A brief resume of the proposed Guest Editors, together with their information (title, name, email, affiliation, personal website, keywords of interests);
• A proposed submission deadline (a Special Issue will usually be open for submissions for 6–8 months);
• A list of at least 20 potential contributors or a list of 8 planned papers.

As a Guest Editor, you would be responsible for:

• Inviting papers from your peers to be published in this Special Issue and taking advantage of the high publicity of the open access, rapid, high-quality peer-review process, and immediate publication after acceptance;
• Checking the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue;
• Making pre-check decisions regarding whether to send a new submission to peer review;
• Making final decisions regarding whether to accept or reject a paper based on peer-review outcomes.

As a Guest Editor, you would have the following privileges:

• A recognition certificate as a Guest Editor of Clean Technologies;
• Publishing one paper free of charge in your Special Issue;
• Inviting high-quality papers to be published in your Special Issue free of charge or with certain discounts;
• Travel grants of CHF 500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize;
• If the Special Issue is successful, with at least 5 accepted manuscripts after full peer review, we can make it into a printed book.

Editorial Office’s role:

The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue website, arrange promotional material, assist with invitations to contribute papers, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (cleantechnol@mdpi.com) if you are interested and would like further details and clarifications.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Clean Technologies Editorial Office

MDPI will be attending the 2nd International Conference for Global Chinese Academia on Energy and Built Environment (CEBE 2021) in Chengdu, China, on 16–19 July 2021. The conference aims at establishing a worldwide platform for promoting global cooperation and innovative communications for ethnic Chinese around the globe, sharing cutting-edge achievements in the utilization of clean energy, the enhancement of energy efficiency via the built environment, and the improvement in environmental quality.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Energies
• Nanomaterials
• Buildings
• Atmosphere
• Clean Technologies
• Processes
• Materials
• Sustainability

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://www.cebe2021.com.

The journal Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797) is recruiting Review Board Members. The main responsibility of the new Members of the Reviewer Board is to regularly provide timely high-quality reports on submitted manuscripts. The responsibilities of the reviewers are available at https://www.mdpi.com/reviewers. 

Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797) is an open access journal published quarterly online by the leading open access publisher MDPI. Prof. Dr. Patricia Luis is serving as the Editor-in-Chief. This journal is dedicated to the publication and worldwide dissemination of peer-reviewed research articles, communications, and review papers in all areas of clean technologies. The journal is presently covered by the following indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), etc. The Aims and Scope of the journal can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cleantechnol/about. 

The benefits of joining the Reviewer Board of Clean Technologies are as follows: 

• We will announce your entry information on the journal's Reviewer Board;
• For each review, we will offer you a discount code if a comprehensive and timely report is provided. The vouchers can be used for your future publications in all MDPI journals; 
• You may publish one paper per year with a 50% discount after standard peer review in Clean Technologies; 
• You will receive a personalized reviewer certificate; 
• You will have the ability to adjust your review frequency based on your schedule in our system; 
• You can verify and showcase your peer review and editorial contributions for our journal; 
• You may be presented with the possibility to join the Editorial Board of the journal (subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief); 
• The Clean Technologies Editorial Board will acknowledge all Reviewer Board Members in its annual reviewer list through a publication/announcement in the "Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Clean Technologies" editorial on the journal website. 

To apply or request further information, please contact the Clean Technologies Editorial Office (Email: cleantechnol@mdpi.com).

Clean Technologies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cleantechnol) is looking to expand the Topic Board (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cleantechnol/topic_editors) in order to cover areas in need of additional expertise. If you are interested in serving as an Academic Editor on the Topic Board or would like to recommend potential candidates, please reach out to us. 

Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797) is an open access journal published quarterly online by the leading open access publisher MDPI. Prof. Dr. Patricia Luis is serving as the Editor-in-Chief. This journal is dedicated to the publication and worldwide dissemination of peer-reviewed research articles, communications, and review papers in all areas of clean technologies. The journal is presently covered by the following indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), etc. 

The main responsibilities and benefits of Topic Board Members are as follows: 

1. Promoting the journal at conferences (adding 1–2 slides to your presentation, distributing flyers, recommending the journal to your colleagues, etc.);
2. Suggesting some of the latest and most interesting topics for the journal;
3. Leading at least one Special Issue in your particular field of expertise every two years or inviting at least three authors to contribute to the journal with discounts, per year;
4. Travel grants per year if you lead a successful Special Issue and would like to promote it at conferences that you attend or organize;
5. Providing support for the Special Issues on topics related to your expertise or when the Guest Editor(s) is/are not available, including Special Issue promotion via social media, pre-checking new submissions, making decisions, and providing advice on scientific cases;
6. Recommending conferences, including physical and virtual, for us to cooperate in if you have conference plans. All Topic Board Members have the chance to obtain sponsorship for the conferences that they organize or attend;
7. Promoting Clean Technologies and published papers among your peers via social media or other venues periodically;
8. Certain discounts for the papers you publish;
9. A recognition certificate as a Topic Editor of Clean Technologies. 

To apply or request further information, please contact the Clean Technologies Editorial Office (cleantechnol@mdpi.com).

We are pleased to announce that the journal Clean Technol. was recently accepted for inclusion in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science. 

The ESCI serves to highlight promising journals which are still under consideration for the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). 

The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Web of Science™ (WoS) are Thomson Reuters products.

MDPI will be attending the 16^th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT16) in Beijing, China, on 25–28 June 2021. The theme for this year’s ICWMT16 is “Building Zero-waste Cities Progressively”.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sustainability;
• Clean Technologies;
• Energies;
• Toxics;
• Recycling;
• Resources.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://bcrctraining.edusoho.cn/.

MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)

MDPI is proud to adopt the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.

The C4DISC represents organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry.

MDPI’s Managing Editors encourage the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to appoint diverse expert Editorial Boards. This is also reflective in our multi-national and inclusive workplace. We are proud to create equal opportunities without regard to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination in our workplace and editors of MDPI journals are to uphold these principles in high regard.

Representatives from C4DISC meet monthly, and have started to implement initiatives to shed light and improve on the lack of diversity in scholarly communications. Some of the initiatives include developing a joint statement of principles; conducting market research; providing training resources, best practices, toolkits, and documentation for our collective memberships; and establishing outreach programs, curricula, events, and publications.

The Coalition is committed to:

• eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that our practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination;
• creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences;
• promoting diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences, including full participation in programs, policy formulation, and decision-making;
• raising awareness about career opportunities in our industries to groups who are currently underrepresented in the workforce;
• supporting our members in achieving diversity and inclusion within their organizations.