Journal History
2011 | Inaugural volume is released, and Membranes published as a quarterly journal. |
2013 | Membranes covered by Ei Compendex/Engineering Village (Elsevier), INSPEC (IET), Polymer Library (Smithers Rapra), Scopus (Elsevier). |
2015 |
Membranes Covered by PubMed, PubMed Central (NLM), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI—Web of Science). The following four topical sections are established:
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2017 | Membranes announced its first Best Paper Award. |
2018 | Membranes receives a CiteScore of 2.69. Membranes launches the Travel Awards project. Membranes sponsors the following conferences:
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2019 | Membranes is changed to a monthly publication schedule. Membranes is covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). Membranes receives a CiteScore of 3.28 Membranes announced its first Young Investigator Award The sections have been adjusted as follows:
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2020 | Membranes receives its first Impact Factor of 3.094 for the year 2019 Membranes receives a CiteScore of 3.5 Membranes became an affiliated journal of the Membrane Society of Australasia (MSA) and Polish Membrane Society (PTMem) Membranes published its 1000th paper. |
2021 | Membranes receives its Impact Factor of 4.106 for the year 2020; 5-Year IF 4.509 Membranes ranks 21/88 (Q1) in the category "Polymer Science", 125/335 (Q2) in the category "Materials Science, Multidisciplinary", 45/143 (Q2) in the category "Engineering, Chemical" and 69/162 (Q2) in the category "Chemistry, Physical" Membranes receives a CiteScore of 3.7 The sections have been updated as follows:
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Editors-in-Chief
2011– | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Spas D. Kolev. |
2015– | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Clàudia Fontàs for section “Membrane Applications in Industry and Chemical Analysis”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Angelo Basile for section “Membrane Applications in Water Treatment”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shiro Suetsugu for section “Membrane Transport Phenomena”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Klaus Rätzke for section “Membrane Preparation and Characterization”. |
2019– | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shiro Suetsugu for section “Membranes in Life Sciences”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Clàudia Fontàs for section “Membrane Preparation and Characterization”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wojciech Kujawski for section “Fundamentals of Membrane Processes”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Benjamin S. Hsiao for section “Membrane Engineering and Applications”. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Giulio C. Sarti for section “Membrane Modeling and Simulation”. |