We welcome you to the fourth issue of Volume 2 of ACS Engineering Au. Our inaugural editorial (1) introduced ACS Engineering Au and its mission. Next, we highlighted our enhanced focus on technological and engineering aspects of research on chemicals, materials, and energy. (2)ACS Engineering Au is emerging as a premier platform for sharing new research methods and results to facilitate the translation of basic research to practice and application. The scope of ACS Engineering Au is shown schematically in Figure 1 and presented in detail on our journal webpage. Figure 1. Schematic representation of the scope of ACS Engineering Au. The first takeaway from Figure 1 is that the scope is broad and covers virtually everything under the umbrella of chemistry and chemical engineering! This is deliberate and by design. Applied chemistry and chemical engineering are very broad and almost all-encompassing. ACS Engineering Au will be a platform presenting cutting-edge research in these broad areas. This may be counter to the current climate of journal publishing, where more specialized journals are often being developed. Figure 2 shows data on the number of journals in two representative engineering fields, namely, chemical engineering and civil engineering, taken from Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022). Please note that the y-axes for the two engineering areas are different and adjusted so that their normalized trajectories look similar. The number of journals is normalized by the number of journals in 2002, and the data for the last 10 years is shown. Figure 2. Change in the number of “Civil Engineering” (Civil: Min = 1.5; Max = 3.5) and “Chemical Engineering” (ChE: Min = 1; Max = 1.55) discipline-specific journals. Data is taken from the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2022) Whether to restrict the scope of a new journal to a specific area or make it broad is not an easy decision and is based on many different factors and goals. At times, journals are launched as broad platforms for interdisciplinary science; on other occasions, new journals are launched to nurture a small but growing subdiscipline or to capture new audiences for a publisher. Convincing arguments may be made to support the growth of broad or more focused-scope journals. It will be interesting to look at how these trajectories change in the coming years. Three possible trajectories are forecast schematically in Figure 2: consolidation of the number of journals, the number remaining the same, and a further increase in the number of journals. These three projected trajectories represent three possible trends, with no intention of suggesting any quantitative information. The prediction of future trajectories is challenging due to the various factors influencing the future of how we publish chemistry and engineering research. We believe that the growth trend is not sustainable and that there will eventually be a consolidation and reduction in the number of scientific journals. Whether that peak in the number of journals is attained now or will occur some years down the line is open to debate. However, the eventual consolidation and steering toward broad-scope journals appear more likely to us. Developing a broad-scope publishing platform covering applied chemistry and chemical engineering will promote the cross-fertilization of ideas and will allow new emerging topical areas that rely on the same core fundamentals to be easily accommodated. Consider the history of the prominent broad-scope journal, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC Research). The journal began publishing in 1909, initially under the title Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. It then transformed into four journals focusing on data, fundamentals, processes, and products (Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, I&EC Fundamentals, I&EC Process Design & Development, and I&EC Product Research & Development) during 1956–1962. In 1986, the latter three journals merged and the word “Research” was added to the title “Industrial & Engineering Chemistry” to form the present-day I&EC Research. We feel that further consolidation, similar to that seen in the case of I&EC Research, may occur in the future, resulting in a reduction in the number of journals and giving rise to more broad-scope journals like ACS Engineering Au. A broad-scope publishing journal platform like ACS Engineering Au is well poised for a future in which open access is the choice of authors interested in boosting the global visibility and reach of their research. The scope of ACS Engineering Au covers that of I&EC Research, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, and Energy & Fuels. It thus offers a unique opportunity for the cross-fertilization of ideas from related fields and welcomes science and engineering developments that are truly interdisciplinary. As we are committed to developing ACS Engineering Au with our community of authors, reviewers, and readers, we invite you to share your suggestions on our scope and other aspects of the journal. We consider all feedback carefully and welcome input from the community we serve. We are committed to making ACS Engineering Au the premier fully open access, broad-scope chemical engineering journal. We are also pleased to introduce the fourth issue of Volume 2 of ACS Engineering Au, which contains: Modeling Polyzwitterion-Based Drug Delivery Platforms: A Perspective of the Current State-of-the-Art and Beyond, by Sousa Javan Nikkhah and Matthias Vandichel (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00008) Catalysis at the Solid–Liquid–Liquid Interface of Water–Oil Pickering Emulsions: A Tutorial Review, by M. Pilar Ruiz and Jimmy A. Faria (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00010) New Perspectives into Cellulose Fast Pyrolysis Kinetics Using a Py-GC × GC-FID/MS System, by Kevin M. Van Geem and co-workers (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00006) Discovering Circular Process Solutions through Automated Reaction Network Optimization, by Alexei A. Lapkin and co-workers (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00002) Optimization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Fiber Degradation by Response Surface Methodology Using an Amino Acid Ionic Liquid Catalyst, by Qing Zhou, Xingmei Lu et al. (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00039) Assessment of Predicting Frontier Orbital Energies for Small Organic Molecules Using Knowledge-Based and Structural Information, by Berlin Chen and Ming-Kang Tsai and co-workers (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00011) Implementation of a Control Strategy for Hydrodynamics of a Stirred Liquid–Liquid Extraction Column Based on Convolutional Neural Networks, by Norbert Kockmann et al. (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00014) We sincerely thank all of our authors and reviewers who contributed to this new issue of ACS Engineering Au. Our first few published issues demonstrate the breadth of the scope of the journal, and we appreciate the support from the community in the first 18 months of the journal. We thank Amelia Newman (Managing Editor, ACS Engineering Au) for gathering the data and for useful discussions. This article references 2 other publications. This article has not yet been cited by other publications. Figure 1. Schematic representation of the scope of ACS Engineering Au. Figure 2. Change in the number of “Civil Engineering” (Civil: Min = 1.5; Max = 3.5) and “Chemical Engineering” (ChE: Min = 1; Max = 1.55) discipline-specific journals. Data is taken from the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2022) This article references 2 other publications.

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将 ACS Engineering Au 开发为广泛的发布平台

欢迎您阅读 ACS Engineering Au第 2 卷第 4 期。我们的创刊社论 (1) 介绍了ACS Engineering Au及其使命。接下来，我们强调了我们更加关注化学品、材料和能源研究的技术和工程方面。(2) ACS Engineering Au正在成为分享新研究方法和成果以促进基础研究转化为实践和应用的首要平台。ACS Engineering Au的范围如图 1 所示，并在我们的期刊网页上进行了详细介绍。图 1. ACS Engineering Au范围示意图. 图 1 的第一个结论是范围很广，几乎涵盖了化学和化学工程范畴内的所有内容！这是故意和设计的。应用化学和化学工程非常广泛，几乎包罗万象。ACS Engineering Au将成为展示这些广泛领域前沿研究的平台。这可能与当前的期刊出版环境背道而驰，在这种环境下，更专业的期刊经常被开发出来。图 2 显示了两个代表性工程领域（即化学工程和土木工程）的期刊数量数据，数据来自 Journal Citation Reports（Clarivate Analytics，2022）。请注意，y- 两个工程区域的轴是不同的并经过调整，因此它们的归一化轨迹看起来相似。期刊数量按 2002 年的期刊数量标准化，显示的是最近 10 年的数据。图 2.“土木工程”（Civil：Min = 1.5；Max = 3.5）和“Chemical Engineering”（ChE：Min = 1；Max = 1.55）学科期刊数量的变化。数据取自期刊引文报告（Clarivate，2022） 是否将新期刊的范围限制在特定领域或扩大范围并不是一个容易的决定，并且基于许多不同的因素和目标。有时，期刊作为跨学科科学的广泛平台推出；在其他情况下，新期刊的推出是为了培育一个规模虽小但不断发展的子学科，或者为出版商吸引新的读者。可以提出令人信服的论据来支持范围更广或更集中的期刊的发展。看看这些轨迹在未来几年如何变化将会很有趣。图 2 示意性地预测了三种可能的轨迹：期刊数量的合并、保持不变的数量以及期刊数量的进一步增加。这三个预计轨迹代表三种可能的趋势，无意提供任何定量信息。由于影响我们如何发表化学和工程研究的未来的各种因素，对未来轨迹的预测具有挑战性。我们认为这种增长趋势是不可持续的，科学期刊的数量最终会合并和减少。期刊数量的高峰是现在还是未来几年会出现，还有待商榷。然而，在我们看来，最终合并和转向更广泛的期刊似乎更有可能。开发涵盖应用化学和化学工程的广泛出版平台将促进思想的交叉融合，并使依赖相同核心基础的新兴主题领域易于适应。考虑一下著名的广泛期刊的历史，开发涵盖应用化学和化学工程的广泛出版平台将促进思想的交叉融合，并使依赖相同核心基础的新兴主题领域易于适应。考虑一下著名的广泛期刊的历史，开发涵盖应用化学和化学工程的广泛出版平台将促进思想的交叉融合，并使依赖相同核心基础的新兴主题领域易于适应。考虑一下著名的广泛期刊的历史，工业与工程化学研究（I&EC 研究）。该杂志于 1909 年开始出版，最初的标题是工业与工程化学。在 1956 年至 1962 年期间，它转变为四个专注于数据、基础知识、过程和产品的期刊（化学与工程数据期刊、I&EC 基础知识、I&EC 过程设计与开发和I&EC 产品研究与开发）。1986年后三个期刊合并，在“ Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ”标题中增加“Research”二字，形成了今天的I&EC Research. 我们认为，未来可能会出现与I&EC Research类似的进一步整合，从而导致期刊数量减少，并产生更广泛的期刊，如ACS Engineering Au。像ACS Engineering Au这样的范围广泛的出版期刊平台已经为未来的开放获取做好了准备，在这个未来，有兴趣提高其研究的全球知名度和影响力的作者可以选择开放获取。ACS Engineering Au的范围涵盖I&EC Research、Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data和Energy & Fuels. 因此，它为相关领域思想的交叉融合提供了独特的机会，并欢迎真正跨学科的科学和工程发展。由于我们致力于与我们的作者、审稿人和读者社区一起开发ACS Engineering Au，我们邀请您分享您对我们的范围和期刊其他方面的建议。我们会仔细考虑所有反馈，并欢迎我们所服务的社区提供意见。我们致力于使ACS Engineering Au成为首屈一指的完全开放获取、范围广泛的化学工程期刊。我们也很高兴地介绍ACS Engineering Au第 2 卷第 4 期周青，陆星美等人。(DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00039) 使用基于知识和结构信息的有机小分子的前沿轨道能量评估，由 Berlin Chen 和 Ming-Kang Tsai 及其同事 (DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00011) 实施基于卷积神经网络的搅拌液-液萃取塔流体动力学控制策略，由 Norbert Kockmann 等人撰写。(DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00014) 我们衷心感谢所有为新一期的 1021/acsengineeringau.2c00011) 基于卷积神经网络的搅拌液-液萃取塔流体动力学控制策略的实施，由 Norbert Kockmann 等人撰写。(DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00014) 我们衷心感谢所有为新一期的 1021/acsengineeringau.2c00011) 基于卷积神经网络的搅拌液-液萃取塔流体动力学控制策略的实施，由 Norbert Kockmann 等人撰写。(DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00014) 我们衷心感谢所有为新一期的ACS 工程金。我们最初出版的几期杂志展示了该期刊范围的广度，我们感谢社区在该期刊前 18 个月的支持。我们感谢 Amelia Newman（ ACS Engineering Au总编辑）收集数据并进行有益的讨论。本文引用了其他 2 篇出版物。这篇文章尚未被其他出版物引用。图 1. ACS Engineering Au范围的示意图。图 2.“土木工程”（Civil：Min = 1.5；Max = 3.5）和“Chemical Engineering”（ChE：Min = 1；Max = 1.55）学科期刊数量的变化。数据取自 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2022) 本文引用了其他 2 篇出版物。