Dear Colleagues,
This is to let you know that AIChE Journal has posted the first part of
the Virtual Issue on Process Systems Engineering:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1547-5905/homepage/pse_virtual_issue.htm
The virtual issue on Process Systems Engineering includes the top 210
cited papers that have been published in the area of Process Systems
Engineering at the AIChE Journal since its inception. All papers except
two have 46 or more citations, and they belong to the 1,500 top papers
of AIChE Journal in terms of number of citations.
While the number of citations is not always equivalent to high quality
papers or their positive impact in an area, it is a simple and
unambiguous measure that attempts to establish the potential impact that
a technical article may have had. We have decided to put together this
virtual issue with two major goals in mind. On the one hand it is an
interesting exercise to display those articles in PSE that presumably
have had a large impact. On the other hand it is useful to gain some
insights into the historical trends of PSE-related research subjects
over the last 55 years. We of course acknowledge the fact that highly
cited papers that have had a high impact in PSE have been published in
other journals such as Computers and Chemical Engineering, Industrial
Engineering Chemistry Research and Chemical Engineering Science. In that
sense one should keep in mind that this virtual issue only provides a
partial view of PSE, which has become a strong and broad core area of
chemical engineering.
The 210 papers of the virtual issue have been organized into the
following four parts, with the citation count shown below:
Part-A: Process Modeling, Simulation and Optimization.
Part-B: Process Synthesis and Design.
Part-C: Process Identification, State Estimation and Control
Part-D: Process Operations: Optimization, Monitoring, and Fault Diagnosis
No. of papers Citations Citations/paper
Part-A 57 6,275 110
Part-B 52 4,234 81
Part-C 61 4,395 72
Part-D 40 4,141 104
We hope that this virtual issue will bring not only fond memories to the
senior researchers in the PSE area, but that it will help to inspire the
young generation of researchers in PSE.
Ignacio E. Grossmann and George Stephanopoulos
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