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An Editor’s Musings for the New Year fast moving field of perovskite-based solar cells, three of the top ten most downloaded papers in 2016 are on organometal halide perovskite materials. I am very pleased that we have been able to add several new scientists to our editorial board in 2016 (Figure 2). The new editors are Dr. Jun Lu (Argonne National Lab), Prof. Thomas Riedl (Universität Wuppertal), Prof. Tao Xie (Zhejiang University), and Prof. Mary B. Chan-Park (Nanyang Technological University). Dr. Jun Lu’s area of expertise includes Li-ion batteries, electrochemistry, and hydrogen storage. Dr. Riedl’s interests are in the area of semiconducting metal oxides and optoelectronic device applications. Dr. Xie is an expert in the field of stimuli-responsive and shape-memory polymers and biomimetic/bioinspired soft materials. Dr. ChanPark’s research covers carbon nanomaterials, antimicrobial polymers, and printed electronics. We are fortunate to add these scientists as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces editors and thank them for their service. This year we also said goodbye to a colleague from the journal’s Editorial team. Dr. Jonathan Mallet served as our Managing Editor for the past four years. Jon recently left ACS to become Director of Journals at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. We already miss Jon at the ACS, but we wish him all the best in his new position. Despite the addition of four new Editors to our board, because of the large number of submissions, our Editors continue to work very hard. The Editors continue to make decisions on submitted manuscripts in a reasonable time frame; however, we do ask our authors to be patient and understand that some delay may occur in the peer-review process because of our Editors’ workloads and other commitments. We hope to further streamline our submission process in the coming year with an aim to enhance our authors’ experiences and provide feedback on submitted papers as rapidly as possible. ACS Publications continually seeks ways to enhance the peer review experience for their authors. This year we expanded the process of manuscript transfer between journals within the portfolio. During 2016, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces was actively engaged in the transfer process. By considering papers transferred-in from other ACS journals, as well as
nother year has passed, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces continues its great run as the journal for publication in the field of applications-focused materials and interfaces science and engineering research. In 2015, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces was ranked 25/271 in the area of Materials Science/Multidisciplinary, and the journal was ranked 7/343 in total citations in the area of Materials Science (InCites Journal Citation Reports). The journal has continued to grow both in submissions, number of published papers, and total citations (Figure 1). The top subject area for papers submitted to the journal is “Energy, Environmental and Catalysis”, but we continue to receive and publish papers in all of the subject areas categorized in the table of contents.
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Figure 1. Number of papers published monthly in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
In 2016, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces published four Forums: “ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in China”, edited by Shu Wang, Chunhai Fan, Jon Mallett, and Kirk Schanze (issue 6); “Current Trends in Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Biomedical Applications”, edited by Kirk Schanze and Jon Mallett (issue 24); “Interfaces for Mechanobiology and Mechanochemistry: From 2-D to 3-D Platforms”, edited by Albena Ivanisevic (issue 34); and “Electrochemical Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials and Interfaces”, edited by Dr. Chunhai Fan and Nianjun Yang (issue 42). Reflecting the interest in the
Figure 2. Left to right: Mary B. Chan-Park, Jun Lu, Tao Xie, and Thomas Riedl. Published: January 11, 2017 © 2017 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b16422 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 1−2
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recommending papers for transfer to other journals, including the new open access journal ACS Omega, the transfer process is helpful to authors, especially when the transferred paper is published expeditiously by the second journal. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Editors are seeking to help authors find a suitable venue for their manuscript when they recommend transfer. Of course, Editors of the receiving journal evaluate all transferred papers, and transfer does not guarantee the paper will be accepted. In cases where authors accept transfer, I encourage them to review the instructions to authors for the target journal and make sure that they consider and address any Editor or reviewer comments before submitting to the next journal. In closing, let me thank the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces community of authors, reviewers, and readers for their strong support of the journal over the past eight years. We look forward to continuing to work with the community to publish high impact papers in the field of applied materials and interfaces. The community is responsible for the success of the journal, and we are always interested in hearing from you about ways to improve the journal.
Kirk S. Schanze, Editor-in-Chief
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b16422 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 1−2
