Call For Papers: Emerging Investigators 2026 in Chemical & Engineering Data

The Editor-in-Chief and members of the Early Career Board of the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data are announcing an open call for the submission of Research Articles, Reviews, or Perspectives to an upcoming Special Issue, “Emerging Investigators 2026”.

This Special Issue will showcase the work of emerging investigators with a research focus on phase behavior and physical, thermodynamic, transport and kinetic properties of chemical systems with known composition that can be obtained from both experiment and computation.

Emerging investigators of any nationality from academia, industry, or national laboratories are welcome. For inclusion in this Special Issue:

• "Emerging investigator” is defined as a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or practicing scientist/engineer no more than 15 years beyond receipt of their B.S. degree (or equivalent) at time of manuscript submission. (Anyone who has taken an official leave of absence may subtract that time from this limit.)
• The emerging investigator should be the corresponding or co-corresponding author of the manuscript. Exceptional circumstances should be described in the cover letter.

Submissions can be Research Articles, Reviews, or Perspectives, and must comply with the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data's Scope, General Guidelines for Authors, and the Guidelines for the topic area most appropriate for the manuscript. Note that Research Articles must contain new data on phase behavior and physical, thermodynamic, transport and kinetic properties of well-defined materials. With regard to computational data, it is important that these calculations involve quantum-mechanical or statistical-mechanical approaches to obtain the property of interest; that is, computational approaches (including machine learning) that predict/estimate data via a correlation of molecular or other macroscopic properties are not in scope.

The Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data encourages manuscripts that report on consequential (relevant, comprehensive, and robust) data and place these data into context by addressing what can be learned from differences and similarities to prior published data on related systems.

The deadline for your submission is May 15, 2026, so that we may publish the Special Issue by the last quarter in December 2026. If accepted, your work will be highlighted as a significant contribution from a researcher who is breaking new ground in their field.

Organizing Editors

J. Ilja Siepmann, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data University of Minnesota, United States

Early Career Board Members

Joseph Abhisheka Rao Boravelli, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India

Shangqing Chen, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China

Ingrid de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vaishali Khokhar, Case Western Reserve University, United States

Elizabeth G. Rasmussen, Blue Origin, United States

Kaihang Shi, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, United States

Pedro Velho, University of Porto, Portugal

Carsten Wedler, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Fufang Yang, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Tae Jun Yoon, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Wanxiang Zhang, Beijing University of Chemical Technology State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, China

Submission Information

We welcome submissions for this Special Issue through May 15, 2026. For more information on submission requirements, please visit the journal’s Author Guidelines page.

Accepted manuscripts for consideration in this Special Issue will include Research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives. Papers accepted for publication for this Special Issue will be available ASAP (as soon as publishable) online. After all submissions have been published, they will then be compiled online on a dedicated landing page to form the Special Issue. Manuscripts submitted for consideration will undergo the full rigorous peer review process expected from ACS journals.

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How to Submit

• Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
• Select the "Journals" tab.
• Choose Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data.
• Click "Submit."
• Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection," choose “Emerging Investigators 2026."

If you have any general questions regarding submission to this Special Issue, please contact eic@jced.acs.org.