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Next meeting of the HKDI Council

April 16, 2025

The next meeting of the Council of the Hevesy György PhD School of Chemistry will take place on June 13, 2025. The Council will consider complete submissions of dissertations received by Ms. Éva Mercz on or before May 13, 2025.

Fourth edition of the Green Book of IUPAC

March 26, 2025

The 4th edition, an abridged version of Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, aka the IUPAC Green Book, is available as a free PDF. The Green Book is published with the objective of securing clarity and precision, and wider agreement in the use of symbols, by chemists in different countries, among physicists, chemists and engineers, and by editors of scientific journals.

The president of IUPAC on support of science

March 7, 2025

IUPAC president for 2024 and 2025, Professor Ehud Keinan signed a proclamation which appeared in C&E News about funding of science. He emphasized that "to solve the global challenges of humanity we need investment in science at all levels" and that "policymakers would do well to identify and prioritize the problems but refrain from determining how to solve them".

Last meeting of the HKDI Council

March 1, 2025

The last meeting of the Council of the Hevesy György PhD School of Chemistry took place on February 28, 2025. The Council considered complete submissions of dissertations received by Ms. Éva Mercz on or before February 1, 2025.

A Q1 chemistry journal looses its impact factor

January 8, 2025

As reported by C&EN and Retraction Watch, the Elsevier journal Chemosphere, which still appears as a Q1 chemistry journal on the list maintained by Scimago, is one of the titles which lately lost their impact factor, managed by Clarivate (Web of Science).

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