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Our Evolving Editorial Team ummer is our busiest period at Analytical Chemistry, with more submissions per week than any other time of year. Evidently, scientists have a little more freedom from other tasks and use this time to finalize and submit their manuscripts. Given the many thousands of submissions we receive, I cannot read them all. One of my major roles as Editor-in-Chief is to assess this onslaught of manuscripts and assign them to our talented associate editors according to their expertise. Analytical Chemistry works with an amazing group of outstanding scientists who each manage their own research efforts and many other responsibilities, and yet, are willing to devote some of their limited remaining time to be part of our editorial team. It’s important to note that for most authors, our associate editors serve as the only point of contact with the journal. As a bit of history, Analytical Chemistry has been around since 1929, but it was not until 1986 that Editor George Morrison added Associate Editors, a process accelerated by the growth of the journal under the excellent stewardship of Editor Royce Murray. If you are someone who reads our masthead and pays attention to our list of editors, you may have noticed a number of recent changes. Catherine Fenselau, the longest serving Associate Editor in our journal’s history, stepped down at the end of 2015 after 26 years, as did Rick McCreery in June 2016. Both greatly contributed to the success of Analytical Chemistry, and their dedication to the journal has been exceptional. In addition, we had two Associate Editors move to other journals this past year; John Yates is now the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Proteome Research, and Weihong Tan will be heading a new analytical journal in the near future. On the positive side, several new editors have joined our team: Gert Desmet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Cindy Larive (University of California, Riverside), and Vicki Wysoki (The Ohio State University) in 2015; Xiaohang Fang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Christy Haynes (University of Minnesota), and Bin Ren (Xiamen University) earlier this year; and this month, Scott McLuckey (Purdue University) will begin his tenure. Together, this new group of editors adds expertise in separations, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, nanotechnology, and electrochemistry, among many other fields. Thus, the past two years have seen a record number of changes to our Editorial Board. We currently have 18 Associate Editors from Asia, Europe and North America, representing many of the subfields of analytical chemistry. Yes, this is an appreciable increase in the size of our team, growth that has been driven by a near 50% increase in submissions since 2012. In 2016, our accepted articles have been fairly evenly split among Europe, the Americas and Asia, and representing this geographic distribution, our editorial team now has four or more editors from each of these regions. Analytical Chemistry, both the field and journal, has become truly global.
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© 2016 American Chemical Society
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Jonathan V. Sweedler AUTHOR INFORMATION
Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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EDITOR'S NOTE To our authors, reviewers, and our existing and new Associate Editors, thank you for your efforts on behalf of Analytical Chemistry.
Published: September 6, 2016 8347
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b03222 Anal. Chem. 2016, 88, 8347−8347
