As 2025 draws to a close, it is a pleasure to reflect on an exceptionally active and rewarding year for The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJCE), the official journal of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE). Our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers across Canada and around the world have continued to make CJCE a vibrant home for rigorous and innovative chemical engineering research.
This year, we were delighted to see our two-year impact factor rise to 1.9 and our five-year impact factor to 2.2, continuing an upward trend that reflects the increasing reach and influence of CJCE. We have also maintained a rapid and rigorous peer-review process, with an average time to first decision of about 30 days. These metrics, while never the sole measure of a journal’s value, signal the trust that the international community places in CJCE as a venue for high-quality, impactful work.
In 2025, we also published four virtual issues that spotlighted exciting recent contributions across the chemical engineering field: 1) Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering: Virtual Issue II, 2) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering Virtual Issue, 3) Exploring Themes: Top-Viewed Articles from Across Chemical Engineering; and 4) Celebrating OA: Top-Viewed Articles from 2025. Together, these collections highlight both the breadth of topics that we publish and the growing importance of open access and data-driven methods in our field.
We also saw an increase in article submissions and a continued rise in full-text views, reflecting CJCE’s expanding global readership and authorship. These trends tell us that researchers are not only choosing CJCE to disseminate their work, but that this work is being read, shared, and used by colleagues worldwide.
Beyond the pages of the journal, we deepened our connections with the chemical engineering community. In 2025, we launched a new CJCE Bluesky account and continued to grow our presence on LinkedIn, where we share news about special issues, virtual issues, and community highlights. We were delighted to meet many of you in person at the CSChE 2025 conference in Montréal, QC, where CJCE hosted a booth and organized another successful Early Career Publishing Workshop for students and early-career researchers.
We were also proud to recognize excellence through our two annual CJCE-sponsored awards. The Best Graduate Student Paper Award was presented to Masoud Haeri-Nejad for the paper “Use of molecular simulation for evaluating adsorption equilibrium of inhalation anaesthetic agents on metal–organic frameworks” (Can. J. Chem. Eng. 2024, 102(4), 1646), co-authored with Mladen Eic. The Lectureship Award was awarded to Cao Thang Dinh. These awards exemplify the outstanding scholarship and creativity that we are privileged to publish and promote.
Changes to Wiley’s transformational open access agreements this year have created additional funding options for authors and institutions wishing to publish open access in CJCE. I encourage prospective authors to explore these opportunities through Wiley Author Services, as they can significantly facilitate the open dissemination of your work. These initiatives highlight our commitment not only to excellence but also to the visibility and accessibility of chemical engineering research.
Looking ahead, we are excited about upcoming special issues organized with CSChE Subject Divisions – on Energy, Process Safety Management, and Systems and Control – as well as a special issue celebrating 100 years of chemical engineering at UNAM and, by extension, a century of chemical engineering education and research in Mexico. These collaborations underscore CJCE’s role as a global platform for emerging topics, from decarbonization and process safety to digitalization and advanced materials.
None of these achievements would be possible without you. I want to express my sincere gratitude to our authors for trusting CJCE with their best work; to our reviewers, whose careful and constructive assessments uphold the scientific quality of the journal; to our associate editors and members of our international advisory board, whose expertise and judgement guide every decision; to our partners at Wiley; and to the CSChE and the Chemical Institute of Canada for their continued support.
On behalf of the entire editorial team, I wish you a peaceful holiday season and a healthy, productive, and inspiring New Year. We look forward to your submissions, your reviews, and your readership in 2026 – and to continuing, together, to strengthen CJCE as a global platform for chemical engineering research.
With warmest regards,
João B. P. Soares
Editor-in-Chief
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering