August 2017: Two Years of Submissions - American Chemical Society

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August 2017: Two Years of Submissions ugust 2017 is a special time for ACS Sensors as, by the time you read this, we will have been receiving submissions for more than two years. We have learned a lot in that time, and are incredibly grateful for the faith you, the sensing community, put in the journal to be a quality outlet in which to publish your work. Our two-year anniversary is a great time to reflect on what classes of sensors have seen the most submissions, and what is citing well. So, how have the submissions gone so far? More than we anticipated. To our delight, the sensing community has truly embraced ACS Sensors based on the sheer number of submissions we have received in our first two years. In the first 19 issues, ACS Sensors has published just over 350 research papers. In order to get a sense of the distribution of our published papers among the various sensing subdisciplines, we classified the primary research papers from 2016 in two ways. One was the transduction method: being optical, electrochemical, or other. The second was the type of sensor as determined by the type of recognition species or analyte: being biosensors, gas sensors, fluorescent sensors, other chemical sensors, and cell-based sensors. We see some interesting trends. With regard to transduction method, 54% of the papers employed optical, 30% employed electrical (being electrochemical or resistance mostly), and 16% employed other transduction methods. This breakdown shows the gradual shift that has been seen in the sensing field over the past few yearsfrom electrochemical to optical methods as the dominant transduction mode. With regard to the classification of type of sensor, we see 38% of papers are biosensors, 3% are cell-based sensors, with the rest focusing on different types of chemical sensors. The remaining 59% of papersall of which can be classified as chemical sensorsis composed of 16% gas sensors and 12% fluorescent ligand-based

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sensors, and the remaining 31% are other chemical sensors that detect solution-borne species. We had hoped for, and expected, more cell-based sensing papers, although many of the fluorescent sensing papers have cells as the sample rather than the biorecognition species. The large number of papers on gas sensors and fluorescent ligand sensors was not originally predicted by the editorial team, but a significant number of high-quality papers covering both areas of sensing have been submitted and published. So which papers are citing well? As of the time of writing, the top 10 cited papers are in the table. Of these 10 papers, 2 are reviewson wearable sensors, and the application of MoS2 in sensing4 are on intracellular fluorescent ligands, 3 are gas sensor papers, and the final paper is a chemical sensor employing magnetic resonance. The notable omission in terms of sensing categories from the top 10 are biosensor papers, but many of the next 10 papers fall in that category. So it goes to show that although we might not have originally appreciated the thematic emphasis of our submissions, the stringent criteria for acceptance of papers in ACS Sensors has resulted in high quality papers in all areas of sensing. We are delighted with the excellence and impact of our first two years of submissions, and we thank the authors and reviewers of these papers for their continued emphasis on quality.

J. Justin Gooding, Editor-in-Chief The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Table 1 Bandodkar, A. J.; Jeerapan, I.; Wang, J. Wearable Chemical Sensors: Present Challenges and Future Prospects. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00250. Kalantar-zadeh, K.; Ou, J. Z. Biosensors Based on Two-Dimensional MoS2. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00142. Tian, H.; Fan, H.; Li, M.; Ma, L., Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Coated ZnO Nanorods as Molecular Sieving to Improve Selectivity of Formaldehyde Gas Sensor. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00236. Wang, C.; Cui, X.; Liu, J.; Zhou, X.; Cheng, X.; Sun, P.; Hu, X.; Li, X.; Zheng, J.; Lu, G. Design of Superior Ethanol Gas Sensor Based on Al-Doped NiO Nanorod-Flowers. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00123. Boonkitpatarakul, K.; Wang, J.; Niamnont, N.; Liu, B.; McDonald, L.; Pang, Y.; Sukwattanasinitt, M. Novel Turn-On Fluorescent Sensors with Mega Stokes Shifts for Dual Detection of Al3+ and Zn2+. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00136. Gao, M.; Li, S.; Lin, Y.; Geng, Y.; Ling, X.; Wang, L.; Qin, A.; Tang, B. Z. Fluorescent Light-Up Detection of Amine Vapors Based on Aggregation-Induced Emission. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00182. Yang, J.; Li, K.; Hou, J.-T.; Li, L.-L.; Lu, C.-Y.; Xie, Y.-M.; Wang, X.; Yu, X.-Q. Novel Tumor-Specific and Mitochondria-Targeted near-Infrared-Emission Fluorescent Probe for SO2 Derivatives in Living Cells. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00165. Shchepin, R. V.; Barskiy, D. A.; Coffey, A. M.; Theis, T.; Shi, F.; Warren, W. S.; Goodson, B. M.; Chekmenev, E. Y. 15N Hyperpolarization of Imidazole-15N2 for Magnetic Resonance pH via SABRE-SHEATH. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00231. Shyamal, M.; Mazumdar, P.; Maity, S.; Samanta, S.; Sahoo, G. P.; Misra, A. Highly Selective Turn-On Fluorogenic Chemosensor for Robust Quantification of Zn(II) Based on Aggregation Induced Emission Enhancement Feature. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00289. Hu, Y.; Ma, X.; Zhang, Y.; Che, Y.; Zhao, J. Detection of Amines with Fluorescent Nanotubes: Applications in the Assessment of Meat Spoilage. DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.5b00040.

Received: August 3, 2017 Published: August 25, 2017 © 2017 American Chemical Society

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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00539 ACS Sens. 2017, 2, 1068−1069

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Eric Bakker, Associate Editor The University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Shana Kelley, Associate Editor The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Yitao Long, Associate Editor East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

Maarten Merkx, Associate Editor Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Michael Sailor, Associate Editor University of California, San Diego, United States

Nongjian Tao, Associate Editor Arizona State University, Tempe, United States

Antonella Mazur, Senior Managing Editor

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J. Justin Gooding: 0000-0002-5398-0597 Eric Bakker: 0000-0001-8970-4343 Shana Kelley: 0000-0003-3360-5359 Yitao Long: 0000-0003-2571-7457 Maarten Merkx: 0000-0001-9484-3882 Michael Sailor: 0000-0002-4809-9826 Notes

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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00539 ACS Sens. 2017, 2, 1068−1069