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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering’s Impact Factor Rises
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e are pleased to report that Thomson Reuters announced the 2015 impact factor for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering as 5.267. This impact factor is calculated as the average number of times that articles published in Volumes 1 and 2 (articles published in 2013− 2014) were cited in journals tracked by Thomson Reuters during 2015. We thank our many worldwide authors and reviewers for their valuable contributions to the publishing process. We also thank members of the editorial staff and the Editorial Advisory Board for their continued guidance and support during the journal’s foundational years. After the release of our first impact factor of 4.642, in June 2015, manuscript submissions and numbers of manuscripts published by ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering increased significantly, and have been climbing to even higher levels in the first half of 2016. We thank the research community for this response, and with our new higher impact factor, we anticipate that even more authors may choose to have their work considered by ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. As an editorial team, we will work to respond to increases in submissions, keeping decision times as short as possible, while maintaining the thorough review process that our author and reader communities rely on. As editors, we are excited about the rapid development of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and we feel privileged to serve the green chemistry and engineering community. We appreciate the community’s recognition of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering as a publication forum of growing global importance, covering the broading field of sustainable chemistry and engineering. In a future editorial, we will describe the journal’s evolving scope more in depth, which we anticipate will help authors in their preparation of manuscripts.
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David T. Allen, Editor-in-Chief Bing-Joe Hwang, Associate Editor Peter Licence, Associate Editor Thalappil Pradeep, Associate Editor Bert Sels, Associate Editor Bala Subramaniam, Associate Editor Michael K. C. Tam, Associate Editor Rhea M. Williams, Managing Editor AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
Received: June 17, 2016 Published: July 5, 2016 © 2016 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01380 ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2016, 4, 3597−3597
