Marching into the New Year ur first year at ACS Energy Letters has been a great success due to our authors, readers, and reviewers who have overwhelmingly supported the journal. The journal aims to publish research articles that represent new and significant advances in the capture, conversion, and storage of energy. In addition, every issue comes packed with invited Perspectives and Reviews, which provide state-of-the-art research activities related to energy conversion and storage. During our inaugural year, we also introduced two other features, Energy Focus articles, which provide a broader perspective of the energy research activities around the globe, and Viewpoints, which offer a platform for community discussions. Our first issue published in July 2016 and contained more than 50 research articles with an editorial outlining the focus of the journal.1 Since then, every issue has remained quite vibrant, disseminating new advances in energy research. We were able to publish 174 research articles in the six issues of 2016 (issue covers in Figure 1). Our 20 Most Read articles have a metric of
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these videos and all of the other interesting features covered in the first six issues. I am often asked about ACS Energy Letters’ impact factor. It takes nearly 2.5 years to receive a journal’s first impact factor (JIF) from Web of Science. Web of Science has recently started indexing our journal content. On the basis of the current citation trend, we expect to make an impact similar to other leading journals in the energy field. It should be noted that the popularity of research topics such as nano, materials, and energy renders the JIF of such topic-based journals greater than journals with broader scopes within the same publisher family of journals (see, for example, the 2015 JIFs of Nano. Lett. (13.779) versus J. Am. Chem. Soc. (13.038); Adv. Mater. (18.960) versus Angew. Chem. (11.709); and Energy Environ Sci. (25.427) versus Chem. Sci. (9.144)). Although the impact factor itself is skewed by the popularity of the discipline, citations received through review-type articles, and publication of few, selected articles per issue, many administrators wrongly equate the quality of a published paper to that of the JIF. The impact of an individual paper can differ significantly from that of the JIF. As pointed out earlier, more than 65% of papers in a given journal have an impact lower than the corresponding JIF.2 I encourage our readers to keep these aspects in mind and evaluate the merit of any published paper based on its scientific rigor. One goal of ACS Energy Letters is to provide a platform for authors to publish their new advances with speed. The remarkable support we have received from many leading research groups in publishing their important research findings in our inaugural year sets the course in making ACS Energy Letters a leading journal in energy research. A major attraction for our authors is the speed with which we publish papers in ACS Energy Letters (on average 5 weeks from
A major attraction for our authors is the speed with which we publish papers in ACS Energy Letters (on average 5 weeks from submission to web publication with pagination).
Figure 1. Cover art from the first six issues highlight featured energy conversion and storage topics.
submission to web publication with pagination). Our senior editors, Shannon Boettcher, Lin X. Chen, Filippo De Angelis, and Yang-Kook Sun, remain committed to providing professional editorial handling of your manuscript. Because of their dedicated service, we are able to provide prompt editorial decisions within 3−4 weeks. On behalf of all of our editors, we take this opportunity to thank the members of our Global Editorial and Author Services, Production, and Marketing teams and our editorial staff for their dedicated service. These people have played a vital role in establishing ACS Energy Letters as a leading journal among its peers. As we march forward through 2017 we will continue to increase the visibility
more than 62 000 reads (total). The immediate impact of these Most Read articles during our first 6 months shows the importance of the topics we cover in ACS Energy Letters. (See Table 1 for a collection of popular articles published in 2016.) In addition, several articles were featured in popular media, and three articles were selected as ACS Editors’ Choice articles. The conversations with Professors Art Nozik, Tom Meyer, and C. N. R. Rao offered a look into their journeys into renewable energy research and discussions on their challenges in tackling energy issues with new strategies. We also posted two Perspective videos from the research groups of Janáky and Curtis. If you have not already done so, I suggest you view © 2017 American Chemical Society
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Table 1. Selection of Papers Published in 2016 metric ACS Editors’ Choice/ Most Read ACS Editors’ Choice/ Most Read ACS Editors’ Choice/ Most Read Most Read/ Most Cited Most Read/ Most Cited Most Cited
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Toward Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells Feliciano Giustino and Henry J. Snaith
ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 1233−1240. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00499
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Solution-Processed Air-Stable Mesoscopic Selenium Solar Cells Menghua Zhu, Feng Hao, Lin Ma, Tze-Bin Song, Claire E. Miller, Michael R. Wasielewski, Xin Li, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 469−473. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00249
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N-Methylformamide as a Source of Methylammonium Ions in the Synthesis of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals and Bulk Crystals Javad Shamsi, Ahmed L. Abdelhady, Sara Accornero, Milena Arciniegas, Luca Goldoni, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, Annamaria Petrozza, and Liberato Manna
ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 1042−1048. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00521
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Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals with Unprecedented Long Carrier Dynamics and Diffusion Length Ayan A. Zhumekenov, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Md Azimul Haque, Erkki Alarousu, Smritakshi Phukan Sarmah, Banavoth Murali, Ibrahim Dursun, Xiao-He Miao, Ahmed L. Abdelhady, Tom Wu, Omar F. Mohammed, and Osman M. Bakr Influence of Electrode Interfaces on the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells: Reduced Degradation Using MoOx/ Al for Hole Collection Erin M. Sanehira, Bertrand J. Tremolet de Villers, Philip Schulz, Matthew O. Reese, Suzanne Ferrere, Kai Zhu, Lih Y. Lin, Joseph J. Berry, and Joseph M. Luther Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Graphene-CNT@Se: A Highly Efficient Freestanding Cathode for Li−Se Batteries Jiarui He, Yuanfu Chen, Weiqiang Lv, Kechun Wen, Pingjian Li, Zegao Wang, Wanli Zhang, Wu Qin, and Weidong He 100k Cycles and Beyond: Extraordinary Cycle Stability for MnO2 Nanowires Imparted by a Gel Electrolyte Mya Le Thai, Girija Thesma Chandran, Rajen K. Dutta, Xiaowei Li, and Reginald M. Penner
ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 32−37. DOI: 10.1021/ acsenergylett.6b00002
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ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 38−45. DOI: 10.1021/ acsenergylett.6b00013
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ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 16−20. DOI: 10.1021/ acsenergylett.6b00015
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ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 57−63. DOI: 10.1021/ acsenergylett.6b00029 ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 64−67. DOI: 10.1021/ acsenergylett.6b00069 ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 46−51. DOI: 10.1021/ acsenergylett.6b00033 ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 107−112. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00077
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Perovskite Solar Cells Shine in the “Valley of the Sun” Yuanyuan Zhou and Kai Zhu
Most Read
High-Energy-Density Lithium−Sulfur Batteries Based on Blade-Cast Pure Sulfur Electrodes Long Qie and Arumugam Manthiram
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High Open-Circuit Voltage: Fabrication of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskite Solar Cells Using Fluorene−Dithiophene Derivatives as Hole-Transporting Materials Neha Arora, Simonetta Orlandi, M. Ibrahim Dar, Sadig Aghazada, Gwénolé Jacopin, Marco Cavazzini, Edoardo Mosconi, Paul Gratia, Filippo De Angelis, Gianluca Pozzi, Michael Graetzel, and Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
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and impact of our published articles. I would like to wish all of our readers, authors, and reviewers a happy and successful new year.
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RELATED READINGS (1) Kamat, P. V. ACS Energy Letters. A New High-Profile Journal for Speedy Publication. ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 1, 1−2. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00058. (2) Kamat, P. V.; Schatz, G. C. Journal Impact Factor and the Real Impact of Your Paper. J. Phys. Chem Lett. 2015, 6, 3074− 3075. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01527. Prashant V. Kamat, Editor-in-Chief University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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