Professor Ata Akcil as Editorial Board Member has joined to the Waste Management (Scope: International Journal of Integrated Waste Management, Science and Technology) - ISSN Print ISSN: 0956-053X; Online ISSN: 1879-2456. Subject areas of the journal: Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution, Waste Management and Disposal. The journal at the highest level around the world in the fields of waste management is being added to the most competitive journal indexes, such as Web of Science and Scopus for a long time. The journal publishes original and innovative research papers and high-quality reviews covering the latest advances on theories, methodologies, and applications in the fields of waste management. The following are some of the major areas in which papers are solicited: Generation and characterization; Minimization; Recycling and reuse; Storage, Collection, transport, and transfer; Treatment (mechanical, biological, chemical, thermal, other); Landfill disposal; Environmental assessments (including LCA and S-LCA); Economic analysis (including LCC); Policy and regulations; Planning.
The journal impact factor in 2022 is 8.1 (Q1) and the CiteScore 2022 in Scopus of the journal is 15.1.
Biography of Professor Ata Akcil
Professor Ata Akcil is a registered mining engineer with 33 years of experience in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy engineering, research, teaching, and consulting. He had a full-professor position in 2010 at SDU, Turkey. He is also senior expert for critical&strategic raw materials and resource recovery, and he is globally experienced and trained in mineral processing and hydrometallurgy. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers and presentations (over 200 peer-reviewed and 75 proceedings) with 12,500 citations and 50 h-index (Google Scholar). He has directed research for more than 60 graduate students and post-docs. He has taught mineral processing, mining and environment, extractive metallurgy, critical raw materials, and university courses for the past 33 years. He is active in many reputed journals as associate editor and editorial board member (Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration-SME; Journal of Mining Science and Technology; Waste Management; Hydrometallurgy). He has been an adjunct professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology since Sept. 2023. He has received 25 awards and honors in his research areas.
Highlights:
- Honored in the List of World's Top 2% Scientists (prepared by the Stanford University scientists). A publicly available database of over 200,000 top-scientists within 7 million scientists. World Ranking (in the discipline of Mining and Metallurgy): 3 out of 205 in 2021; 7 out of 658 in 2020; 5 out of 606 in 2019
- Published a Nature paper on critical raw materials in Nov 2020 (Impact Factor: 69) and it is the most requested article in the past 3 years.