X. Research Journal
1. Evergreen
Evergreen – Joint Journal of Novel Carbon Resource Sciences & Green Asia Strategy – wasdesigned to be one of the pillars of the Green Asia Program at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Schoolof Engineering Sciences in Kyushu University, and has been published as a peer-reviewed journal.
The Green Asia Report is one of the requirements of every Green Asia Program student to complete
the doctoral program and the reports are to be published in a peer-reviewed journal such as
Evergreen (IV. 13). Keeping the publication of the reports as a core, the editorial team has workedvery hard to publish papers from several disciplines so long as the manuscript contributes to thegreening process. Professor Bidyut Baran Saha has been serving as the Chief-Editor of theEvergreen since inauguration while Prof. Hideo Nagashima and Prof. Seigi Mizuno have been thefield editors. The editorial team also includes Prof. Kazuhide Ito and Assoc. Prof. Naoko Okibe.
Assistant Professors Tomoaki Watanabe (until March 2018 issue) and Naoko Mae handle the special
issues of the Green Asia Report publications. The editorial team is joined by Assoc. Prof. Kyaw Thusince April 2016 as a Co-Editor-in-Chief. The journal management team includes Ms. Mieko Inoueand Mr. Masayoshi Makino.
To date, Evergreen is indexed by almost half a dozen indexing organizations, most notably theSCOPUS and the Google Scholar. The CiteScore 2017 of Evergreen was recorded to be 0.62 while
the total number of publication stands at 56 (data on April 30, 2018). The current h-index ofEvergreen in Google Scholar is 5 and the total citation reads at 108 (until 2018). These remarkableachievements in such a short period are attributable to the contributions by the authors, reviewers;
the vision and execution of the editorial and the management team. The data for Evergreen are
shown in Figure 10-1. In the making of Evergreen, a new interactive journal website is launched
together with the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number for all the published and forthcoming
articles.
Two to four issues have been printed for a year, and in the academic years from 2016 to 2018,
eight issues were published: volume 3, issue 2 (September 2016), volume 4, issue 1 (March 2017),
volume 4, issue 2/3 (September 2017), volume 4, issue 4 (December 2017), volume 5, issue 1(March 2018), volume 5, issue 2 (June 2018), volume 5, issue 3 (September 2018), and volume 5,issue 4 (December 2018) (Figure 10-2). As its name stands, Evergreen strongly promotes thesustainability and it upgraded itself towards the online only journal (volume 5, issue 2, and later)while maintaining the reputable Open Access Publication.
Being a full-fledged Journal, Evergreen welcomes special issues from the InternationalConferences. The latest installation is the forthcoming special issues for the selected papers from theInternational Meeting on Advances in Thermofluids (IMAT2018). The guest editorial team includes
Prof. Nasruddin, Dr. Muhammad Arif Budiyanto both from the Universitas Indonesia (UI) and Mohd
Fairus Mohd Yasin from the Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM).
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Figure 10-2. Covers of some issues of Evergreen (vol. 4, Issue 4 (left), vol. 5, Issue 1 (middle), vol. 5,issue 5 (right)).

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2. Proceedings
A collection of non-peer-reviewed research papers has been published as a proceeding for theInternational Forum for Green Asia, held once a year (VI. 1). It contains research reports related tothe lectures by speakers and poster presentations by the Green Asia Program students in the forum,and some of the students in the 4th year of the Green Asia Program (3nd year of doctoral course) hascontributed to the edition as a role of International Exercise B2 (IV. 5.2). The proceedings were alsocharacterized as special issue of Evergreen (X. 1).

Figure 10-3. Proceedings of International Forum for Green Asia 2016 and 2017.

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