The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has announced an increase in Impact Factor for three of its journal titles - Food and Bioproducts Processing, Process Safety and Environmental Protection and Chemical Engineering Research and Design. All three now sit in the top three of peer-reviewed chemical engineering journals.
Food and Bioproducts Processing (FBP) saw the biggest increase in Impact Factor, going from 1.970 to 2.744 this year. FBP has also jumped up in the journal rankings - now 45th out of 137 chemical engineering journals (56th last year); 57th out of 160 biotechnology & applied microbiology journals (88th last year), and 36th out of 133 food science and technology journals (46th last year).
Process Safety and Environmental Protection (PSEP) continued to do well. The journal reported a 40% increase in Impact Factor last year and has experienced a further 18% increase, from 2.905 to 3.441, in the latest figures. It now places 27th out of 137 chemical engineering journals, and 18th out of 50 environmental engineering journals. It is ranked higher than the AIChE Journal and Chemical Engineering Science.
The 2017 Impact Factor results are calculated by Thomson Reuters and published by Clarivate Analytics. The latest figures have also seen a 10% increase in the Impact Factor for Chemical Engineering Research and Design (ChERD) - from 2.538 to 2.795.
Impact Factors provide a quantitative measure of a journal in relation to its competitors, based on a ratio of the citations to a journal in the most recent year to a count of articles and reviews published in the journal in the prior two years. IChemE journals do not insist on authors citing recent work from the journal to be considered for publication.
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