VOLUME 100, NUMBER 2, JANUARY 11, 1996
© Copyright 1996 by the American Chemical Society
Editorial I would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and successful New Year. I would also like to take this opportunity to bring you up to date on the progress of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. We continue to enjoy the support of our authors, reviewers, subscribers, the Senior Editors, the members of the Advisory Board, the members of the Division of Physical Chemistry, the Journal staff, and all the members of the Publications Division of the ACS. Because of this continued support, the Journal continues to grow both in the number of pages (we anticipate publishing 20 000 pages this year) and in quality. In support of the decision of the Division of Physical Chemistry to add a subdivision in biophysical chemistry, we now have a separate section for publication in this important field. Thanks to the efforts of our Advisory Board members in this field, this section is growing at a healthy rate. The number of authors sending the final copy of their manuscripts on disks has increased. Currently, 50% of the manuscripts are typeset from author disks. Ideally, we would like to reach 100% by year end. Typesetting from disk should significantly reduce the time it takes accepted manuscripts to be published. The above successes are not without problems. The continued rapid growth in the number of published papers, without a parallel rapid growth in the number of subscriptions, induces page pressures and/or unwanted increases in subscription rates. The Publications Division is doing its best to ensure that this does not adversely affect our publication time. There are several things that we, as authors, can do to help solve this problem. Concise writing of our manuscripts will help. In addition, material that supports the conclusions but is not needed to follow the argument in the work should be submitted as Supporting Information. Supporting Information is now available via the World Wide Web and is, therefore, easily retrieved. Another manner in which we can assist is to make sure that our libraries subscribe to The Journal of Physical Chemistry. I do thank you again for your continued support. If you have any constructive comments, please do not hesitate to write me. With my best wishes. M. A. El-Sayed Editor-in-Chief JP9634619
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