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2019 Year of the Periodic Table There have been many other CGD accomplishments and highlights along the way (including adding topic editors to help emerging scholars learn the editorial process and partnering with the Cambridge Structural Database to enhance the integrity of crystal structure data, among others), and in 2020, upon the occasion of our 20th anniversary and when I am retired from being EIC, I will be happy to reminisce. However, there is still 2019 to consider, and since 2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements,2 I want to offer our authorship a challenge to send me your (good) papers which will help CGD complete the publication of every element in the Periodic Table! Also please join the ACS in its celebration of the Periodic Table by following the activities to be posted throughout the year at https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/ whatischemistry/periodictable.html. Since CGD’s first issue in January 2001, we have published papers that have included all but 33 of the named elements in the Periodic Table (Figure 1). You can likely guess most of them, but for completeness (and to not have to add to Tom Lehrer’s song3 by singing them), here they are: Neon, Promethium, Polonium, Astatine, Radon, Francium, Radium, Actinium, Protactinium, Americium, Curium, Berkelium, Californium, Einsteinium, Fermium, Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium, Bohrium, Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium, Nihonium, Flerovium, Moscovium, Livermorium, Tennessine, and Oganesson. Four of these, Nh, Mc, Ts, and Og were not even discovered at the time of the journal’s founding. Now, technically I suppose until the next element is discovered, CGD has the Periodic Table covered! Nonetheless, please accept the challenge and honor the Periodic Table with your best papers containing the missing elements. I hope that each of you has a great and productive 2019. I call on all of our authors, readers, and reviewers to help welcome the new EIC when named later this year. Let’s keep the excitement of our journal and our fields going!
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ecember 31, 2019, after 20 years and 19 volumes, I will be retiring as Editor-in-Chief of Crystal Growth & Design. It has been quite an exciting time for me personally, and for the journal, as the science and technology of the crystalline state of matter reemerged on the fundamental science scene, creating a flurry of interest in the design and control of crystalline materials. Watching the maturation of this field from delight in creating interesting architectures, to design and control, and now to applications, has mirrored my own interest in science and technology. The wonder of my youth at simply being able to make new crystals and completely characterize their structures never really went away; however, as a scientist the desire to do something for society has always underlain the choice of work to do. CGD has been that go-to place to publish work that is interdisciplinary and covers that research continuum from idea to application. Check out some Editorhighlighted research on our recent ACS Axial post at http:// axial.acs.org/2018/11/29/crystal-growth-design-editors-sharerecent-research-highlights/. There have been many firsts for CGD along the way, and our journal has adapted to the ever-changing publication formats. I will start with one “second”; we were the second ACS journal to start a collaborative publishing venture with the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (Organic Letters was first). The journal won the 2001 award for Best New PSP Journal in any category, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. In that year, we published a total of 524 pages with 58 articles, 9 communications, 2 perspectives, 2 reviews, and 4 book reviews. In 2000, when I was first asked to become EIC, ACS only published 29 journals (vs more than 55 today!), and electronic publication was on the horizon, but clearly the copy of record was the printed issue. Electronic versions of papers were restricted to PDFs of the exact paper as printed. CGD changed that for ACS when in our first issue we became the first ACS journal to have “web enhanced objects” or WEOs to allow animation and additional detail to be “clickable” from the electronic copy.1 At that time, the majority of users downloaded PDF versions of papers for all other ACS journals; however, 62% of CGD downloads utilized the HTML version where the web enhancements were active! Clearly, we were on to something! Recognizing the international nature of science and the growing publication trends, CGD was also the first ACS journal to have an associate editor from Mainland China (Prof. Maochun Hong appointed in 2006) and from India (Prof. Ashwini Nangia appointed in 2008). These two editors helped transform CGD into an internationally recognized place for the best work worldwide. Today, China and India remain two countries contributing some of the highest percentages of papers to the journal. Of the 10,369 records of CGD’s corresponding author affiliations found in SciFinder, 8% (872) are in India and 26% (2676) are in China. © 2019 American Chemical Society
Robin D. Rogers, Editor-in-Chief
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(1) Chun, H.; Bernal, I. Polymorphism in the Crystallization Behavior of Trinitrocobalt(III) Complexes with Tridentate Amine Ligands: Hydrogen-Bonding Analysis and Syntheses of Racemic and Conglomerate mer-Co(dpt)(NO2)3. Cryst. Growth Des. 2001, 1, 67− 72. Published: January 2, 2019 1
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01854 Cryst. Growth Des. 2019, 19, 1−2
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Figure 1. A Periodic Table representation of the elements published in and not published in Crystal Growth & Design since its first volume in 2001. See the CGD website for an interactive version. (2) URL: https://iupac.org/united-nations-proclaims-internationalyear-periodic-table-chemical-elements/, last accessed Dec. 8, 2018. (3) URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_(song)), last accessed Dec. 8, 2018.
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