Announcements

It is our great pleasure to announce the launch of the Section “Pharmaceutical Processes”, which will provide a specific venue for this field of research in Processes.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) and Guest Editors (GEs) for this Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/sections/Pharmaceutical_Processes). If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact us (processes@mdpi.com).

Responsibilities of Processes EBMs include the following:

• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
• Suggesting special topics or editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research;
• Promoting the journal and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
• Advising on the journal development.

Benefits for Processes EBMs include the following:

• Discounts for the papers you publish;
• A certificate in recognition of your role as an EBM of Processes;
• Additional sponsorships are offered by Processes for conferences that you organize.

Responsibilities of Processes GEs include the following:

• Defining the aims and scope of the Special Issue;
• Carrying out pre-checks and making final decisions as to whether a paper is acceptable (according to the review reports);
• Providing a potential author list and inviting some high-quality contributions.

Benefits for Processes GEs include the following:

• A discount for publication in your Special Issue;
• A certificate in recognition of your role as a GE of Processes;
• A book which could be published if more than five papers are published in the Special Issue;
• Consideration as a Processes Editorial Board Member candidate if the Special Issue is successful.

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

We are pleased to inform you that the impact factor of Processes has increased to 2.847 in the Category “Engineering, Chemical”. For more detailed information, please see:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/stats

Since Processes received its first impact factor in 2018, the impact factor has gradually been increasing year by year. All the achievements thus far have benefited from the strong support of all of the scholars that have been involved with the journal. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the scholars for their contributions to the development of the journal. Looking forward to our future cooperation.

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 2020 citation metrics have been officially released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)!

We are pleased to announce that 85 MDPI journals are included, of which:

• 10 journals received their first impact factor
• 96% of journals increased their impact factor from 2019
• 32 journals (38%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021

Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)

We are pleased to inform you that Processes has received an increased CiteScore of 2.4 in the Categories “Chemical Engineering: Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)”, “Chemical Engineering: Process Chemistry and Technology”, and “Chemical Engineering: Bioengineering”. For more detailed information, please see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/stats.

The development of Processes has been strongly supported by scholars. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all scholars for their support!

To celebrate this great news, we would like to invite you to contact the Processes editorial office (processes@mdpi.com) before 31 August 2021 to apply for a discount if you would like to submit a paper to Processes.

The 12th National Conference on Environmental Catalysis and Eco-Materials, organized by the Catalysis Society of China, will be held in Shanghai from 18 to 20 June 2021. This conference will invite experts and students who are engaged in the study of and research into environmental catalysis and materials to share their latest progress and new achievements. It will focus on the international research frontiers, meeting the demands of countries, and encourage active exploration, in order to break through technical bottlenecks and further promote the development and popularization of science and technology in the field of environmental catalysis and materials in China.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Processes
• Catalysts
• Applied Sciences
• Atmosphere
• Sustainability
• Toxics
• Water

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth A16. 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://www.12ncecm.com/.

The 6th China National Young Scholar Meeting on Combustion Research will be held in Hangzhou, China 21–23 May 2021. Approximately 600 delegates will attend and showcase their latest achievements in combustion research. The meeting aims to centralize young researchers in the combustion field and is focused mainly on the current research development in combustion science. Attendees will present their newest research by delivering presentations in their fields. Colloquium topics include laminar flame and chemical reaction kinetics, turbulent flame and numerical combustion, combustion in engines, solid combustion and combustion pollution, fire research, combustion diagnostics, and new combustion technology.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Processes;
• Fire;
• Applied Sciences;
• Energies;
• Fluids.

If you are also 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://combustion2020.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1.

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)

To further motivate the scholars who have had a good publication record in the last 3 years, we are pleased to announce that Processes will offer discounts/waivers to the scholars for their next submission to Processes. Please make a pre-submission request, providing your CV with the publication record to processes@mdpi.com for application. The final decision will be made by the journal office. The application deadline is 31 May 2021, and the submission deadline is 31 July 2021.

Processes (ISSN 2227-9717) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on processes in chemistry, biology, materials, energy, environment, food, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and allied engineering fields published monthly online by MDPI. Processes is now indexed by SCIE (IF: 2.753), ranks 59/143 (Q2) in the category “Engineering, Chemical”.

For more detailed information, please click: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes.