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Crystal Growth & Design Around the World in 2012 t is a pleasure to welcome you to the 12th volume of Crystal Growth & Design! 2011 was quite a busy year for the journal, but 2012 promises to be even busier and even more exciting. There has been tremendous growth in the crystal growth and crystal engineering communities and a consequent increase in the strength of the science. We have continued to observe strong contributions from around the world with the most growth continuing to be from China and India. CGD has been making consistent efforts to reach out to the worldwide communities, and key meetings were attended this year in China, India, and Europe as you will have noticed from the editorials which have followed these meetings.1−3 Keeping up with all of the new and continuing activities has been quite a task, but we have been helped by a large number of scientists participating in the activities of CGD. This year will bring reorganization of the Advisory Board and Topic Editors to allow more of our great volunteers to participate directly in the activities of CGD. We have also reorganized some of the duties of the Advisory Board and Topic Editors to more accurately reflect how the journal operates today. You will find this reflected in the movement of many of the current Topic Editors to our Advisory Board. Before I introduce our new members, I want to first thank each of the outgoing Advisory Board members and Topic Editors whose current terms have expired. These include outgoing Advisory Board members Gautam R. Desiraju, Bruce M. Foxman, Roald Hoffmann, Harold Kroto, Jean-Marie Lehn, Kevin J. Roberts, and J. Fraser Stoddart, and outgoing Topic Editors Leonard R. MacGillivray, Leslie Leiserowitz, Ronald W. Rousseau, and Patrick Stahly. To each of you I would like to express my personal heartfelt thanks for helping CGD to become the journal it is today. This would not have been possible without your generous help and support. In 2012, Associate Editor Ashwini Nangia will be stepping down and has graciously agreed to become part of our Advisory Board. Prof. Nangia has been and will continue to be a vital part of the CGD family where he has been instrumental in raising the international awareness of the journal and helping to attract world leading science to our pages. Two new Associate Editors have agreed to work with us in the coming years. In early 2011, Prof. Adam Matzger (University of Michigan) was appointed, and beginning in January of 2012, Prof. Kumar Biradha (Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur) will become a CGD Associate Editor. I believe you will enjoy working with them as much as I have. The 2012 CGD Advisory Board will welcome Giuseppe Resnati and T. N. Guru Row, along with several Topic Editors who have agreed to serve on the Advisory Board. Our new Topic Editors will include Srinivasan Natarajan, Feilong Jiang, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Praveen K. Thallapally, Lasheng Long, and Jagadese J. Vittal. Please welcome them when you have a chance. Finally let me reintroduce you to and thank the Alabama office personnel responsible for keeping CGD running. Coordinating Editor, Mihaela Rogers, and Editorial Assistants, Louis Shedd, Callie Matthews, and Amanda Medders help us
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Adam Matzger, University of Michigan. E-mail: matzger-office@ crystal.acs.org
Kumar Biradha, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur. E-mail:
[email protected] maintain the high standards of efficiency needed to publish your papers in a timely fashion. The new CGD Team will be helping to promote the community and the Journal throughout the world in 2012. The number of important meetings and events seems to be growing each year, and I trust each of you is keeping up with the CGD calendar (http://pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/meetings/ index.html) to stay informed. One meeting in particular I would call your attention to is the second Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering (http://www.grc.org/ programs.aspx?year=2012&program=crystaleng) which will be held June 10−15, 2012 in Waterville Valley Resort, NH. I am chairing this meeting which will follow the very successful meeting in 2010 chaired by Gautam Desiraju. I encourage anyone interested in the program to apply now to ensure a spot. I also want to call your attention to an event to be held in conjunction with the 2012 GRC designed to help support and encourage students and postdocs. We will hold the first Crystal Engineering Gordon Research Seminar (http://www.grc.org/ programs.aspx?year=2012&program=grs_cryst) June 9−10, 2012, immediately preceding the Gordon Conference itself. The GRS will be organized and run by students and postdocs, and all talks and discussion leaders will come from submitted Published: January 4, 2012 1
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From left to right: Callie Matthews, Mihaela Rogers, Amanda Medders, Louis Shedd such advanced tools, CGD can continue to provide the scientific community valid, trusted information. CGD also remains firmly committed to improving data integrity and improving the utility of electronic data to the scientific community. Our author guidelines call for, and we will enforce, the submission of structure factors, cif files, and cifcheck reports for every single crystal structure reported in a paper submitted to CGD. In 2012, we will be improving our ability to ensure all necessary files are submitted, that all the files submitted are properly formatted and usable, and that all such files are available in the Electronic Supporting Information for each paper. This has been a long-term goal of mine and one we will continue to work to improve. The availability of such data will allow the scientific community to directly and easily work with any given data set to enhance the understanding of that structure. I look forward to a time when all electronic data of any type is readily available to the scientific community. As you can see, 2012 will indeed be a busy and exciting year. Please continue to send me your ideas and suggestions for the Journal, including meetings to attend and themes for our virtual special issues (http://pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/vi/index. html). I also invite you to share your opinions on the Crystal Growth & Design Network (https://communities.acs.org/ community/cgdnetwork). Your individual participation truly does make a difference!
abstracts by students and postdocs. Please help us get the word out to all potential participants and have them email the GRS Chair, Mohamed Alkordi (
[email protected]), if they are interested in participating. There are many other interesting meetings in our field being held in 2012 including the ones below where I plan to attend. Please keep me informed of any meetings where you feel CGD should have a presence. 1 Indo−US Science and Technology Forum: “The Evolving Role of Solid State Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Science,” February 2−4, 2012, New Delhi, India 2 “2nd China−India−Singapore Symposium on Crystal Engineering,” November 17−23 2012, Guangzhou, China 3 “Chemistry: Synthesis, Structure and Dynamics” (in honor of Prof. Gautam Desiraju’s 65th birthday), December 12−14, 2012, Bangalore, India In closing, let me look forward to some of the challenges we face and how we are working to address these. The explosion in the number of reported structures and indeed in the total number of papers submitted for publication continue to offer challenges in data management and integrity. CGD will be working on two different fronts to address these issues. First, CGD is engaged in a pilot study using CrossCheck (http:// www.crossref.org/crosscheck/), a content verification/plagiarism checking service that is provided by CrossRef, an independent membership association founded and directed by publishers. The American Chemical Society is a CrossRef member, as are about 60 other publishers including AAAS, AIP, AGU, APS, Elsevier, Nature, Springer, Taylor & Francis, AIP, Wiley, and others. CrossCheck has a content repository and a software tool called iThenticate that compares uploaded manuscripts against published content in the repository. The resulting reports provide information on content overlap between the submitted text and published content. Of course these reports need to be thoroughly reviewed by the Journal for an accurate interpretation of the results. We are considering how we might use this tool to remove instances of plagiarism from the review process and thus cut down on the number of unnecessary reviews we might inadvertently conduct. We hope that by using
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Robin D. Rogers Editor-in-Chief The University of Alabama, Center for Green Manufacturing, Department of Chemistry
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(1) Rogers, R. D. When Giants Cooperate Instead of Collide. Cryst. Growth Des. 2010, 10, 4671. (2) Rogers, R. D. Ten Years of Experience: How Can We Put It to Good Use? Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 1−3. (3) Rogers, R. D. Halogen Bonding: Weak Interactions Result in Strong Opinions. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 4721−4722.
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