Announcements

Our editorial team will be attending the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018) in Coimbra, Portugal, 9–14 September 2018

As a result of the biannual meetings held since 1968, the Ibero-American Federation of Catalysis Societies (FISoCat), the Portuguese Society of Chemistry (SPQ) and the University of Coimbra, have the pleasure of organizing the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018).

As in previous editions, this event aims to be a meeting point for the Ibero-American community working in Catalysis and in all its different areas of scientific knowledge. The 2018 CICat has a symbolic historical importance, for reaching 50 years since the beginning of this series of Encounters. Participants of CICat 2018 are also invited to visit the city of Coimbra, as well as its historic center and the University of Coimbra (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Catalysts
Processes
Energies
Symmetry
Applied Sciences
Sustainability
Materials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth near the Lobby Coffee Break). 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://cicat2018.eventos.chemistry.pt/?setLn=es.

Processes held the 2018 Editorial Board Meeting on 3 July 2018 in San Diego, during the PSE2018 conference. We greatly appreciate the fact that Editor-in-Chief Prof. Michael A. Henson hosted this meeting and there were 8 EBM attendees.

At this EB meeting, the EBMs had a positive discussion about how to improve the journal’s reputation, manage the five new Sections and Special Issues, balance the Editorial Board’s distribution, and cooperate with the conferences and societies.

Attendees: (from left to right)

Prof. Rafiqul Gani (SPEED)
Dr. Leo Chiang (Dow Chemical)
Prof. Martha A Grover (Section EiC, Georgia Tech)
Prof. Bhavik R. Bakshi (OSU)
Prof. Thomas A. Adams II (Section EiC, McMaster Univ.)
Prof. Michael A. Henson (EiC, UMassAmherst)
Prof. Ka Ming NG (HKUST)
Prof. B. Wayne Bequette (RPI)
Prof. Christos T. Maravelias (UW-Madison)

We appreciate the efforts of all the Editorial Board Members and look forward to meeting you next time!

Guest Editor: Dr. Hyun-Seob Song

ISBN 978-3-03842-975-3 (Pbk)
ISBN 978-3-03842-976-0 (PDF)

This Special Issue book focuses on key aspects of microbial interactions and community dynamics. As the Guest Editor, as well as an Editorial Board Member of Processes, Dr. Hyun-Seob Song successfully collected 11 articles from lead scientists in the field. Two are review papers; the other nine cover three key areas of microbial modeling. The news of this publication has been announced on the website of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Now the book is also available in print and can be ordered online.

Click here for the free electronic version.

We are pleased to announce that Processes has received a first Impact Factor in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Clarivate Analytics in June 2018.

Processes is covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science and received a first Impact Factor of 2.973. The journal ranks 38/137 (Q2) in the category 'Engineering, Chemical.'

Note: the Impact Factor is pending revision for the September re-load of the Journal Citation Reports®, with the updated value expected to be significantly lower than the IF published now.

The Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, is a Clarivate Analytics product.

MDPI will be attending the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8), to be held in Yokohama, Japan, 5–10 August 2018.

Catalysis Society of Japan will organize this meeting as a continuation of TOCAT (1990), TOCAT2 (1994), TOCAT3 (1998), TOCAT4 (2002), TOCAT5 (2006), TOCAT6/APCAT5 (2010), and TOCAT7 (2014). The past seven TOCAT conferences have earned a good reputation as a new series of international conferences on catalysis that has significantly filled the gap between research and technology in catalysis. Stimulating closer ties between academia and industry and encouraging young researchers in the field of catalysis are the central concept of this conference. This conference should greatly contribute to exchanging new ideas and technologies and promoting developments of new outstanding catalysts and systems under the scope that catalysis is a highly and eagerly demanded technology in industries and for sustainable society and drives innovation in many other fields.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Catalysts
Processes
Energies
Molecules
Materials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #8). 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.shokubai.org/tocat8/index.html.

Meet us at the 23rd International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2018) and 21st Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2018) in Prague, Czech Republic, from 25–29 August 2018.

MDPI will be represented at the CHISA 2018 jointly held with PRES 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, from 25–29 August 2018.

CHISA 2018 and PRES 2018 will offer you many interdisciplinary connections and cover a range of important topics with focus on addressing global challenges in energy, water, pollution, and sustainability using classical chemical engineering approaches, enhanced by many interdisciplinary collaborations.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Energies
• Processes
• Separations
• Fluids
• Catalysts
• Membranes
• Chemengineering
• Clean Technologies

If you are also attending these two conferences, please stop by our booth at the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about the conferences, please visit http://2018.chisa.cz/.

The 2017 CiteScore™ data is available now, based on citation data in the Scopus® database. The current CiteScore reflects citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.

Thirteen of our journals received a CiteScore which is in the top 10% of the distribution in at least one of the categories (marked with * in the table below), while a further 32 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.

To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.

Unlike CiteScores and the widely used Journal Impact Factors, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metrics are normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields. Therefore, the SNIP allows direct comparison between journals specialized in different fields.

According to 2017 data, MDPI publishes six journals with an average citation impact, or SNIP, in excess of 1.500. These journals are Biomolecules, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Marine Drugs, Remote Sensing and Sensors (see the last column in the table below).

CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals

Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Florian M. Wurm and Dr. Martin Jordan
Submission Deadline: 30 November 2018
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