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Updates from ACS Catalysis: Associate Editors, Preprint Policy, and Impact Factor
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ith this editorial, I seek to inform the global catalysis community of the latest news from ACS Catalysis. Owing to the continued growth in submissions to the journal, and seeking to diversify the expertise of the editorial team, I am pleased to announce that Prof. Unni Olsbye of the University of Oslo, Norway, joined as our 12th associate editor in August. Unni brings vast catalysis research experience and will handle papers in all areas of heterogeneous catalysis. Her recent specialization in microporous materials, such as zeolites and MOFs, brings new expertise to the ACS Catalysis editorial team. A 13th associate editor will join the team later in 2016. Starting in November, 2016, ACS Catalysis is modifying its preprint policy to allow for electronic posting of preprints of papers on the Internet. With the ACS launching the first preprint server in chemistry, ChemRxiv, the journal is poised to adapt its policy to allow authors the possibility of posting papers prior to peer review in this and related databases. At the time of submission, it is the author’s responsibility to provide the editor with copies of any relevant preprint(s). Note that publication of the final, peer-reviewed, and copy-edited version of accepted papers on publically accessible servers or databases remains available only when authors choose an appropriate open access option at the time of publication.1 By now, most have noted that the 2015 impact factor (IF) for ACS Catalysis remained the same as the 2014 IF of 9.3. This maintains ACS Catalysis as the highest-impact comprehensive catalysis journal for the third year in a row. I expect the journal’s IF will remain in this range in the near future, as the journal continues to focus on serving the full breadth of the global catalysis community. Echoing our now well-known metric within the catalysis community, we seek the top 10% of papers in all areas of catalysis, including heterogeneous, molecular, and biological catalysis. In closing, I want to remind our readers that the nominations for the 2017 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science are due on November 1.2 In early 2017, we will announce the winner and recognize a catalysis researcher or team of researchers who have markedly impacted the field with their publications in the last seven years. We look forward to receiving your nominations.
Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief
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Georgia Institute of Technology
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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REFERENCES
(1) The five main components of the ACS Open Access Initiatives. http://acsopenaccess.org/. (2) Lectureship nomination details may be found at http://connect. acspubs.org/catalysislectureship. E-mail nominations to the following:
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Published: October 7, 2016 7229
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b02752 ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 7229−7229
