We are thrilled to announce that Industrial Chemistry & Materials (ICM) has officially been indexed in the Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) as of November 2024. ESCI is a prestigious database that indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed journals that are emerging as leaders in their respective fields. Being included in ESCI signifies ICM’s growing academic reputation and its commitment to advancing research in the fields of industrial chemistry and materials science.
The Development Timeline of ICM
The inclusion of ICM in ESCI represents a major milestone in the journal’s development, demonstrating its international authoritative recognition for academic quality, wide-reaching influence, and commitment to rigorous publishing standards. This achievement also lays a strong foundation for the journal’s future impact, with expectations that ICM will receive its first impact factor in 2025. At this moment, we are pleased to announce that, beginning in 2025, ICM will transition to a bimonthly publication schedule, empowering us to better serve our ever-growing community of authors and readers with greater efficiency.
We are deeply grateful to our editorial board members, authors, reviewers and readers for their continued support. Together, we look forward to achieving even greater milestones in the years to come.
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Dr. Jeremy P. Allen joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014 as a Publishing Editor, initially working on the journals Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Nanoscale. In 2018, he became the Deputy Editor for Chemical Science. Since early 2022, Dr. Allen has served as the Executive Editor for Materials Advances and Nanoscale Advances, leading the development of these journals and collaborating closely with their Editorial Boards. He is also the Executive Editor of two newly launched journals, RSC Applied Interfaces and RSC Applied Polymers.
Professor Atsushi Urakawa obtained his PhD in 2006 at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Then, he worked as a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at ETH Zurich before joining ICIQ (Spain) in 2010 as a Group Leader. In 2019, he took on a new challenge as Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ChemE, TU Delft. His research group is dedicated to developing novel heterogeneous catalysts and catalytic processes that minimize energy usage and reduce negative impacts on the environment and human health. By employing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates material science, reaction engineering, and in situ/operando methodologies, they aim to gain a thorough understanding of active sites and transformation pathways. Their primary target reactions include CO2 conversion to valuable chemicals, methane activation, environmental catalysis (NOx abatement), and hydrogen production through electro- and photocatalytic activation. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2016 and has received numerous accolades, including the JSPS Prize (2020) and The Japan Academy Medal (2021).
