Announcements

MDPI will be attending the 2020 Chinese Annual Conference of Process Systems Engineering (PSE2020), Chongqing, China, 13–15 November, 2020.

PSE2020 is hosted by the Committee of Process Systems Engineering, Chinese Society for Systems Engineering. The aim is to strengthen the intersection and integration of PSE and related disciplines to promote the transformation of the latest scientific and technological achievements in process systems engineering, to support scientific and technological progress and the national economic and social development of the process industry, and to provide a platform for domestic and foreign experts, scholars, and engineers in the field of process systems engineering to exchange, discuss, and report the latest research results.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Processes (leading journal);

Energies;

Electronics;

Mathematics;

Safety;

Sustainability;

Logistics;

Chemengineering;

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://hgxy.cqu.edu.cn/info/1158/4317.htm.

The journal Processes is launching a new position—Topic Editor. The main responsibilities of Topic Editors are as follows:

1. Promoting the journal at conferences (adding 1–2 slides into your presentation, distributing flyers, recommending the journal to your colleagues, etc.);
2. Promoting the journal on scholarly platforms (ResearchGate, Academia.edu), social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.), or your personal website;
3. Providing support for themed Special Issues that fall into your expertise (when the Guest Editors are not available), including pre-checking new submissions, making decisions, giving advice on scientific cases, etc.

Benefits

Topic Editors are encouraged to apply for travel grants for themselves or their research group after their 2-year tenure has been served. Topic Editors will be preferred as Editorial Board Members whenever we have vacancies.

If you are interested in this role or if you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact us (processes@mdpi.com).

Join us in our effort to decrease the reviewing time and to improve the quality of published papers!

In order to maintain high standards and to continue publishing high-quality papers in Processes, we need professional and expert scientists to become reviewers. We are therefore recruiting scientists to join our reviewer board to provide professional comments for submissions that fall within the scope of Processes, as well as to conduct timely and efficient reviews.

The benefits of joining the Reviewer Board of Processes are as follows:

1. You can verify and showcase your peer review and editorial contributions to our journal;
2. Your published papers will receive priority during journal promotions.

Note that choosing to review papers for Processes will not prevent you from reviewing manuscripts for other journals.

If you are interested in this role or if you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact us (processes@mdpi.com).

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Blaž Likozar has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section "Chemical Systems" in the journal Processes.

Prof. Dr. Blaž Likozar has a permanent position as a researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry (head), and is also affiliated with the Pulp and Paper Institute. He graduated in Chemical Engineering, then obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering as well. He is an expert in chemical reaction, reactor and process engineering, as well as multi-scale modelling simulations. He is experienced in unit operation design, construction and optimization, as well as ab initio modelling. Previously, he worked for one year at the University of Leoben, as well as six months at the University of Delaware (Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation). He is the author of >180 documents (peer-reviewed) (h-index: 25; Scopus). He has been involved in 14 H2020 projects.

We are confident that the strong academic background and connections of the new Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Antoni Sanchez was appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section "Green Processes" in the journal Processes.

Antoni Sánchez (male, PhD) is Full Professor in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. His main research activities have been focused on biological waste treatment, especially on composting processes. He is now the Coordinator of the Composting Research Group.

During his research career, he has published more than 180 ISI-refereed papers on different aspects of biotechnology and environmental sciences, and his works have received more than 9000 citations. He has been the supervisor of many PhD, Master and Undergraduate students, and he has act as the principal investigator of numerous research projects from public institutions and contracts with private companies.

More details can be found at:

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=f2hh0z8AAAAJ&hl=es

We are confident that the strong academic background and connections of the new Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access agreement with Jisc Collections, which will allow UK institutions to benefit from access to article processing charge (APC) discounts and streamlined payment workflows.

All institutions participating in the agreement will also gain access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information for easy identification and additional transparency.

Eligible authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system.

About Jisc

Jisc's vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection.  Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.

For more information, contact helen.dobson@jisc.ac.uk.

About MDPI

MDPI is a publisher of fully peer-reviewed, Open Access journals with a focus on thorough and rapid editorial processing. Its aim is to ensure that high-quality research is verified and made available to the research community as quickly as possible. MDPI stands at the forefront of the Open Access movement, having launched its first online journal Molecules in 1996. Today, MDPI is a leader in Open Access publishing with over 250 journals across all research disciplines, and all content published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

For any questions about this agreement, please contact the MDPI IOAP team at ioap@mdpi.com.

We are pleased to inform you that Processes has received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 2.753 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. Processes now ranks 59/143 (Q2) in the 'Engineering, Chemical' category. For more detailed information, please see:

The updated citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Clarivate. The recent release of the JCR includes seventy-one MDPI titles. Out of these, 18 titles are newcomers, receiving a first Journal Impact Factor which is based on citation activity in 2019: Actuators, Agriculture, Biology, Biomedicines, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Children, Healthcare, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), Land, Life, Magnetochemistry, Membranes, Pharmaceuticals, Photonics, Separations and Toxics.

• Out of the previously listed journals, a total of 72 percent boast an increased Impact Factor.
• 25 journals are ranked among the top 25% of journals in at least one of the categories they are ranked for.
• Articles published in 2019 in MDPI journals account for approximately 17 percent of of articles published in gold Open Access journals covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
  
  

First Impact Factors

Updated Impact Factors

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Vicenç Puig was appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section “Computational Method” in the journal Processes.

Vicenç Puig received his B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 1993 and Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, Vision, and Robotics in 1999, both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC). He is Full Professor at the Automatic Control Department of UPC and a researcher at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), CSIC-UPC. He is Director of the Automatic Control Department and Head of the research group on Advanced Control Systems (SAC) at UPC. He has developed important scientific contributions in the areas of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control using interval and linear parameter-varying models adopting set-based approaches. He has developed important scientific contributions in the areas of monitoring, control, and supervision of large-scale systems with particular application to systems in the water cycle (drinking water networks, sewage/drainage networks, irrigation networks, waste treatment plants). He has participated in more than 20 European and national research projects in the last decade. He has also led many private contracts with several companies and has published more than 140 journal articles as well as over 400 contributions in international conference/workshop proceedings. He has supervised over 25 PhD dissertations and over 50 Master theses/final projects. He is currently Chair of the IFAC Safeprocess TC Committee 6.4 and served as Vice-Chair from 2016 to 2019. He was the general chair of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol 2016) and IPC Chair of IFAC Safeprocess 2018.

We are confident that the strong academic background and connections of the new Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 3 winners of the Processes 2020 Best Paper Award, sponsored by MDPI and Processes.

Nominations were selected from the papers published in 2018 by the Editorial Office of Processes. The selection committee is chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto. We hope this award will encourage the publication of other high-quality papers in the journal in the future.

Article:

GEKKO Optimization Suite
Processes 2018, 6(8), 106; doi: 10.3390/pr6080106
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/6/8/106

Methanol Synthesis: Optimal Solution for a Better Efficiency of the Process
Processes 2018, 6(3), 20; doi: 10.3390/pr6030020
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/6/3/20

Review

Modeling and Simulation of Energy Systems: A Review
Processes 2018, 6(12), 238; doi: 10.3390/pr6120238
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/6/12/238

On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee and the Editorial Board, we would like to congratulate the authors of the above manuscripts and we also thank Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto for his excellent work in the hard task of selecting a winner from such a large number of excellent candidate profiles. We are very proud to publish high-quality papers; we will continue to hold the Processes 2020 Best Paper Award and wish all scholars great success in their careers.

Thank you very much for your valuable contribution to the journal and we are looking forward to further collaborating with you.

Processes Editorial Office

Congratulations!