From time to time, we make changes to the membership of the Journal’s Editorial Board, with some long-serving existing members stepping down and new members joining us. The departure of existing members is always sad, but the following colleagues have agreed to step down from the Board in order to make room for new members.

As ESJ’s Editors, we owe the following colleagues a huge thanks:

Prof. Joseph Walsh, Prof. Paolo Mariani, Prof. James Estes, and Prof. Mohd Fauzi Sedon.

We welcome as new members the following:

Dr. Diego Vergara Rodríguez, Prof. Michail Kalogiannakis, Dr. João Manuel Nunes Piedade, Prof. Paula Escudeiro, Dr. Papadakis Stamatios, and Dr. Olivier Vors.

We are pleased to inform you that Emerging Science Journal received an updated Qurtile Ranking in the July 2021 release of the Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR). ESJ now ranks Q1 in the category of "Multidisciplinary."

We are proud to announce that Ital Publication is now a member of UKSG, the UK´s largest scholarly communications community. Through UKSG, different stakeholders share their knowledge and experience in order to improve the knowledge and information environment for researchers. UKSG´s members include universities, publishers, content providers, intermediaries, and other similar organisations. Members participate in discussions and events on issues around scholarly communications.

Ital Publication is delighted to be a part of this active community and we look forward to making our own contribution. We will continue to support organisations and initiatives that boost collaboration and vision within scholarly communication.

More information about UKSG can be found at https://www.uksg.org/. The full membership list is available at: https://www.uksg.org/members.

It is a great honor for us to announce, some of the Emerging Science Journal editorial board has been recognized as top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science (2018).