Message from Editor-in-Chief--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

When we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Particuology, Prof. Mooson Kwauk, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, passed away on November 20, 2012. This is a great loss to the whole community of Particuology, and particularly to the journal itself.

Mooson had contributed his life of ninety-two years to the field of chemical engineering, especially to fluidization. In his whole life, Mooson did everything scientifically and diligently. His great achievements, respectable personality and unique working style had earned him worldwide reputation. When he was eighty years old, he shifted his attention from research work to running the journal Particuology and educating youngsters.

Mooson's contributions to science have been summarized in the preface to the Festschrift in honor of his 90th birthday, co-edited by Alexis T. Bell, Jinghai Li and James Wei (Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 66(19)). And in the first issue of 2013, we published a memorial for him (Particuology, Vol. 11(1)). Herewith, I would like to summarize his unique contributions to Particuology to encourage our colleagues to take the legacy of Mooson and to follow his spirit.

Mooson created Particuology at the age of eighty-three in 2003, and served as Editor-in-Chief for ten years. Different from normal image of a 90-year old scientist, he corrected all accepted papers word by word, and guided the editorial office to check all the equations and symbols, to confirm all links to citations, to ensure everything in the manuscript is qualified for a scientific publication. This, of course, brought much more workload for himself and the colleagues of the editorial office and led to a relatively long period of editing process, but surely guaranteed high quality of publications. His philosophy is: “we should not mislead or confuse readers by even a minor mistake in the publication”.

Particuology is one of Mooson's legacies. His leaving presents us a challenge: how to keep the journal style established by him and having been maintained for a decade? We have the responsibility to take his legacy seriously, and we have opportunity to upgrade Particuology with modern technology and the experiences accumulated within the past ten years. High impact and good submission represents an ancient Chinese philosophical puzzle, “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Nobody is able to answer! The only solution to the puzzle is offering our best service for community.

We will continue to keep the tradition established by Mooson, meanwhile, we will do our best to promote new development of the journal: for the authors, who are important resources to us, we promise to offer them unbiased, qualified and timely peer review, and we will endeavor to shorten the time gap between submission and publication; For the readers, we will present them original, high-quality research papers to facilitate them to keep pace with the latest developments in the related areas of particuology.

Moreover, we will invite feature articles from leading experts in various fields. And we will recruit passionate academics to strengthen the editorial team. Most importantly, we will optimize the manuscript processing work flow to speed up the editing efficiency.

Under the support of the community, we have confidence to upgrade the Journal further, and to establish it as a leading journal in the future not far away!

Thank you all for your constant support to Particuology.

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