Applied Chemical Engineering

Professor Hassan Karimi-Maleh has voluntarily resigned from his position as co-editor-in-chief, following joint approval by the publisher's management committee and the journal's international editorial board. As of the date of this announcement, Professor Hassan Karimi-Maleh no longer possesses any authority related to manuscript processing, editorial board management, or academic decision-making for *Applied Chemical Engineering*, and and is prohibited from engaging in any external academic activities in his capacity as co-editor-in-chief.

This is hereby announced.

In order to strictly adhere to academic publishing ethics, standardize manuscript citation practices, eliminate utilitarian and non-academic inappropriate self-citation behaviors, maintain a fair and just academic publishing order, ensure the academic quality and credibility of journals and book publications, and guide a healthy academic exchange atmosphere, in accordance with domestic and international academic publishing norms and relevant publishing industry guidelines, our press hereby issues the following official announcement regarding the self-citation management requirements for all submitted, edited, and published manuscripts.

To further strengthen compliance management throughout the entire academic publishing process, strictly align with COPE international publishing ethics guidelines and Scopus inclusion standards, and thoroughly solidify the journal's academic credibility, the journal's editorial board and publisher management committee have jointly reviewed and approved the following important compliance construction measures, which are now publicly announced to the global academic community:

Establish a 3-person independent ethics review team that has no association with this journal.  Each quarter, an independent citation ethics review panel will randomly select no fewer than 15% of newly published papers for review, focusing on whether there are any instances of concentrated citations pointing to journals that have been removed from the journal's database, or cross-journal citation manipulation. If academic misconduct is confirmed, the paper will be rejected, corrected, or retracted directly according to COPE's standard procedures. All audit results will be documented and archived. A public citation compliance report will be published annually on the journal's website in the "Publication Ethics Zone."

This journal solemnly promises that it will take this upgrade of the compliance system as an opportunity to integrate citation ethics control throughout the entire publishing process, continuously create a fair, transparent, and standardized high-quality academic exchange platform for scholars in the field, and proactively accept full supervision from the global academic community.

Exciting news!

The review of Applied Chemical Engineering (ACE) for Scopus is complete. We are informed that the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has advised to accept it for Scopus inclusion.

This is a big step for ACE since its launch, and it could not have been achieved without the help and support of all the editorial staff, reviewers, and authors.