Editorial Cite This: ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 1−2
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An Exciting Year Ahead for ACS Sensors authors and EAB members and find out how we can better serve that part of the globe. You can see that there is a lot happening this year. None of this would be happening without you, our authors, readers, and reviewers, so we thank you for your time and effort and wish you a prosperous 2018. We also want to thank the Editorial Advisory Board, the Peer Review Analysts, Sue Liu in Sydney who compiles the Introducing Our Authors, the Twitter Editors you heard from in an editorial last year, the production team, the marketing team, and anyone else who has assisted with the journal. Thank you all for being part of ACS Sensors. We hope 2018 is exciting and successful for everyone.
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new year always brings new hopes and fresh optimism. The same is true for your editorial team at ACS Sensors, and 2018 promises to be a very exciting year for the journal in its third year of publishing your papers. In this metrics-driven world of publishing, that means one thing, our very first impact factor will be released. The first impact factor is often referred to as a half-year impact factor since qualifying publications result from one year instead of two. Specifically, around July 2018, when the 2017 impact factors are released, the number next to ACS Sensors will be citations in 2017 to papers published in 2016 as distinct from more established journals where it will be 2017 citations to papers published in 2015 and 2016. We do not know what our half-year impact factor will be, but we are curious and anticipating its release. We are really optimistic because of the incredible papers we have published in our first two years. In fact, in the last few weeks, the very first papers published in ACS Sensors exceeded 50 citations (DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00250 and 10.1021/acssensors.5b00142), always a significant milestone for a paper. This coming year is going to be exciting for a number of other reasons of course. There are a number of major events we are taking part in that we wanted to tell you about. If you are at any of these events please stop by, say hello, and tell us what you think of the journal. We will be present at Pittcon in Orlando for a couple of special events between February 26th and March 1st. These include the inaugural Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards session hosted by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry and the three measurement journals: Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Proteome Research, and ACS Sensors. At this session, the three inaugural awardeesProf. Neil Kelleher from Northwestern University, USA; Prof. Francesco Ricci from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; and Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh from RMIT, Australiawill each present their award lectures along with a colleague they have each selected to present after them. At the very same time, unfortunately, will be the ACS Sensors sessionFrontiers in Sensors − In Situ Luminescent Sensing, From Cell to Organismorganized by two of us, Michael Sailor and Maarten Merkx. The ACS Sensors session is now an annual Pittcon session, cohosted with the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, so keep an eye out for it every year. Pittcon is not the only conference where you will find ACS Sensors in 2018. The journal will also have representation at the World Biosensor Congress in Miami, Florida in June; the 9th International Nanomedicine conference in Sydney, Australia also in June; the International Society of Electrochemistry annual meeting in Bologna in September; IEEE Sensors in India in October; MicroTAS in Taiwan in November; and a number of Gordon Research Conferences. The entire ACS Sensors editorial team will also be on the road together this year as part of the first journal visit to Asia. The team will travel to China in April, stopping in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Beijing as part of the very first series of ACS Sensors symposia and roadshows. It is part of our plan to reach out to our Asian © 2018 American Chemical Society
J. Justin Gooding, Editor-in-Chief The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Antonella Mazur, Senior Managing Editor ACS Publications, Washington, DC, United States
Michael Sailor, Associate Editor University of California, San Diego, California United States
Maarten Merkx, Associate Editor Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Shana Kelley, Associate Editor The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Nongjian Tao, Associate Editor Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States Received: January 5, 2018 Published: January 26, 2018 1
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00013 ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 1−2
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Yitao Long, Associate Editor East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Eric Bakker, Associate Editor
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The University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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J. Justin Gooding: 0000-0002-5398-0597 Michael Sailor: 0000-0002-4809-9826 Maarten Merkx: 0000-0001-9484-3882 Shana Kelley: 0000-0003-3360-5359 Eric Bakker: 0000-0001-8970-4343 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00013 ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 1−2
