Nature Chemical Engineering

Nature Chemical Engineering is a monthly online journal launched in January 2024 by Nature Portfolio under Springer Nature, covering chemical engineering and applied chemistry and physics, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 29.7《自然·化学工程》是（Springer Nature）旗下（Nature Portfolio）于 2024 年 1 月创办的月刊在线期刊，涵盖化学工程与应用化学、物理学，2025 年影响因子为 29.7。

Scope

• It publishes primary research, reviews and analysis of direct relevance to the diverse community of chemical engineers该刊刊载与化学工程师这一多元群体直接相关的原创研究、综述与分析。
• Its remit spans fundamental advances in chemical, physical and biological systems through to the design, scale-up and optimisation of chemical processes其范围涵盖化学、物理与生物体系的基础进展，直至化学过程的设计、放大与优化。
• Interest areas include feedstock processing and resource recovery, materials characterisation, reactor design and reaction engineering, and molecular thermodynamics and transport processes关注领域包括原料处理与资源回收、材料表征、反应器设计与反应工程，以及分子热力学与传递过程。
• It also covers separations and purification, storage, packaging and recycling, and process modelling, intensification, control and safety该刊还涵盖分离与纯化、储存、包装与回收，以及过程建模、强化、控制与安全。
• It treats molecular process engineering and molecular transformation engineering at all scales, spanning a wide range of disciplines该刊处理各尺度上的分子过程工程与分子转化工程，横跨众多学科。
• It welcomes research on techno-economic and life-cycle assessment and engineering solutions for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, providing a forum across academia and industry该刊欢迎技术经济与生命周期评估研究以及面向联合国可持续发展目标的工程解决方案，并为学术界与工业界提供交流平台。

History

• It was announced in March 2023 and launched in January 2024 as one of three new Nature Portfolio titles, alongside Nature Cities and Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering该刊于 2023 年 3 月宣布、2024 年 1 月创刊，是（Nature Portfolio）当年新增三刊之一，另两刊为（Nature Cities）与（Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering）。
• It was created to complement Nature Portfolio's existing applied sciences journals by publishing cutting-edge research in applied chemistry and physics for a broad scientific community该刊的创办旨在补充（Nature Portfolio）既有的应用科学期刊，为广泛的科学界发表应用化学与物理学的前沿研究。
• Chemical engineering addresses complex challenges arising from processes and systems, many of which have a large impact on science and society化学工程应对源自过程与系统的复杂挑战，其中许多对科学与社会具有重大影响。
• Its first issue appeared as Volume 1, Issue 1 in January 2024, with the first research articles published from that month其第 1 卷第 1 期于 2024 年 1 月面世，首批研究论文自当月发表。^[1]
• It is a transformative journal, reflecting Springer Nature's commitment to open research该刊为变革型期刊，体现（Springer Nature）对开放研究的承诺。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 29.7, third among 183 journals in the chemical engineering category of the Journal Citation Reports其 2025 年影响因子为 29.7，在（Journal Citation Reports）化学工程类别 183 种期刊中位列第三。

Editors

• The Chief Editor is Thomas Dursch, PhD首席主编为 Thomas Dursch（博士）。
• He joined Springer Nature in January 2023 after serving as an editor at Trends in Chemistry at Cell Press, and led the launch of the journal他于 2023 年 1 月加入（Springer Nature），此前在（Cell Press）旗下（Trends in Chemistry）任编辑，并主导了该刊的创办。
• Like all Nature Portfolio journals, it is run by an in-house editorial team of trained scientists who are entirely independent与（Nature Portfolio）的所有期刊一样，该刊由一支完全独立、训练有素的科学家内部编辑团队运营。
• The editors select and commission content, oversee fair and rigorous peer review, edit accurately and work for rapid publication and broad dissemination编辑负责遴选与约稿、监督公正严谨的同行评审、精细编辑，并致力于快速出版与广泛传播。
• Editors stay close to the research community and prioritise the significance of each study, since evaluating manuscripts and commissioning reviews is time-intensive编辑与科研界保持紧密联系并重视每项研究的重要性，因为评估稿件与组织评审颇为耗时。