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Organometallics Global Enterprise crolling through any issue of Organometallics or the ASAP page on our Web site, you realize that the journal is truly a global enterprise. The masthead tells a similar story. We receive papers from all over the world, and many times a single submission will have authors from different countries or even continents. Likewise, the Editorial team handling the paper is located throughout the globe with members in China, Taiwan, Norway, Germany, Canada and the United States. Our Editorial Advisory board is likewise geographically diverse, as representatives from more than 10 countries constitute our team. The chemistry of the metal−carbon bond is by no means confined to one country, continent, or region of the globe. Our goal at Organometallics has been and continues to be to attract the best and most diverse content from authors independent of their geographic location. The best way to achieve this is through broad participation. While there is no question that our graduate student and postdoctoral co-workers migrate globally, it is also important to attract content from a spectrum of institutions, as various cultures add their own distinct flavor to research on the metal−carbon bond. In 2016, we published a Special Issue on Organometallic Chemistry in Asia (https://pubs.acs.org/toc/orgnd7/35/10), and in 2018 we followed on a similar theme with Organometallic Chemistry in Europe (https://pubs.acs.org/toc/ orgnd7/37/5). In both cases, guest editors from these continents helped attract manuscripts from these regions. Likewise in 2017, I published an editorial (DOI: 10.1021/acs. organomet.6b00937) on how content from outside the United States dominates our pages and how the journal seeks to promote and more importantly connect organometallic chemists throughout the world by highlighting their achievements, supporting conferences, and hosting ACS On Campus events in various locations. Continuing on this theme, we have assembled a Virtual Issue (h ttps:// pubs. acs. org /page /or gn d7 /v i/ org an omet globalreach2018.html) on the Organometallics Global Enterprise consisting of the most-read articles published in 2018 from 25 different countries. The topics highlighted represent the breadth of the organometallic chemistry we publish along with the various forms we publish them in Communications, Articles, and Tutorials. Whether it is a Tutorial from South Korea guiding how to avoid computational pitfalls, bioorganometallic chemistry from New Zealand, or catalysis emanating from France, Switzerland, the Russian Federation, or Japan, high-quality research at the forefront of the field is a common theme. While no issue of this type can be comprehensive, the message is clearjust about anywhere in the world research is being conducted, organometallic chemistry is a prominent component. It is also evident that organometallic chemistry will continue to connect us as a community to solve 21st century global challenges.
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Paul J. Chirik
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00176 Organometallics XXXX, XXX, XXX−XXX
