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American Chemical Society
The ACS Journal of
Surfaces and Colloids JANUARY/FEBRUAFtY,1988 VOLUME 4,NUMBER 1
Editorial A Progress Report Langmuir begins ita fourth year of publication with this issue, and a brief report is in order. The journal continues to be well received; it is growing at the rate of about 20% per year, and perhaps by next year we will be justified in going to a monthly basis. My thanks go to the Associate Editors for their help and certainly to the good authors that contribute to the journal. Special thanks go to the reviewers who continue to do an amazingly good job in the careful reading of submitted manuscripts. I receive many comments from authors in appreciation of helpful suggestions and corrections. Finally, no list of acknowledgmenta would be complete without an appreciation of the efficient, professional operation of the ACS staff that actually produce and publish the journal. I am establishing a slow rotation of the Editorial Advisory Board, s i m i i to the practice of other ACS research journals. This is to avoid burdening any one group for too long as well as to bring in new perspectives. Many Board members attend national ACS meetings, and these have been occasions for joint meetings with staff members of the ACS Books and Journals Division. A t these meetings and throughout the year I draw on the Advisory Board as a group and on individuals to consider policy matters and to help on problem situations. The Executive Committee of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry is also kept informed of Langmuir activities. The retiring members have been part of Langmuir from the beginning and have shared the exciting experience of seeing a journal born and grow. They have my deep appreciation and also the promise to keep coming to them to draw on their experience and expertise. Review of Langmuir. It will be 4 years this Spring since Langmuir was officially authorized by the Board of
Directors of the American Chemical Society, on recommendation of the publications committee. For some years, it has been the practice of this committee to review all the ACS journals in rotation, at about 5-year intervals. Langmuir is scheduled for such a review this year, and a task force of the committee will be conducting various surveys. Some of you, as authors, subscribers, or as members of an appropriate division of the ACS, will be receiving a questionnaire asking for your comments and suggestions. The information will be very useful; please respond! (Langmuir was the first completely new ACS j o m a l to be started in about 15 years, and the experience has in some ways served as a guide to subsequent new ventures.) Notes and Comments Sections. As Langmuir has developed, the Associate Editors and I have seen the usefulness of having Notes and Comments sections; the idea was supported at the last Advisory Board meeting. The general rationales are the following (with specific instructions in the Notice to Authors). Notes will usually consist of original research papers containing results which merit publication but which are not extensive enough for a standard paper with the usual detailed discussion, or the topic, if theoretical, may constitute an important counterpoint rather than a complete new development. Cornments have a different function, namely, to allow for a technical (but nonpolemical) reaction to contemporary papers, particularly ones that have appeared in Langmuir; the intent is to allow for friendly, supported statements of a different viewpoint. Both Notes and Comments should be short. Arthur Adamson Editor
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