Editorial pubs.acs.org/acscatalysis
Predicting a Breakthrough Year for ACS Catalysis ith this issue, ACS Catalysis enters its seventh year of publication poised to achieve many firsts for a catalysis journal. I anticipate the journal will surpass 1000 papers published in the 12 issues of 2017, owing to the strong and continued support of the global catalysis community. The journal will also cosponsor, along with the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology, two sessions honoring ACS Catalysis Lectureship winners at the ACS Fall National Meeting in Washington, DC. In this regard, I am pleased to announce that the 2017 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science has been awarded to Prof. Paul Chirik of Princeton University. Chirik’s contributions to catalysis with first-row transition-metal complexes have made a major mark on catalytic chemistry in the past decade, especially with approaches utilizing “redox-active” ligands to allow the first-row metals to catalyze multielectron chemical transformations. Chirik’s work has demonstrated that earth-abundant, base metals such as Fe and Co can perform cycloaddition, borylation, hydrogenation, and hydrosilylation reactions, potentially replacing precious metals. In parallel with Chirik’s celebratory session, a session honoring the 2016 ACS Catalysis Lectureship winner, Prof. Matthias Beller of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock, will be held. This will be the first time two ACS Catalysis Lectureship sessions will be held at the same ACS meeting, making the 254th ACS National Meeting & Exposition an event not to be missed. The array of papers published in the journal in 2016 was more evenly distributed than ever before across the three traditional subdisciplines of catalysis, biocatalysis/enzymology, molecular/homogeneous catalysis, and heterogeneous catalysis. Catalysis titles have been traditionally dominated by papers on heterogeneous catalysis, but ACS Catalysis has achieved an excellent distribution of papers across the breadth of catalysis research thanks to the strong response of the molecular/ homogeneous catalysis and biocatalysis/enzymology communities. The percentage of papers in these two fields has grown from 37.4% in 2014, to 40.5% in 2015, and 48.6% in 2016. The topical breadth of publications has developed in parallel with excellent geographical breadth of the authorship. In 2016, ACS Catalysis published papers with authors hailing from 56 different countries, including all continents but Antarctica. Furthering our global footprint, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Ye Wang of Xiamen University, China, as the newest associate editor, starting in early 2017. Like all our associate editors, Prof. Wang is a highly accomplished, active researcher. His appointment brings additional proficiency in heterogeneous catalysis, giving the editorial team exceptional breadth of expertise. This appointment makes the editorial team majority non-American, with 14 associate editors in total, and 8 working outside the United States. Again, ACS Catalysis is a global catalysis journal. Finally, I close this inaugural editorial of the year with a prediction: in addition to our continued growth of catalysis content surpassing 1000 published papers in 2017, as
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mentioned above, I expect we will see the journal achieve other important firsts later this year, which will be described in an upcoming editorial. I look forward to watching the evolution of ACS Catalysis throughout 2017.
Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Published: January 6, 2017 919
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b03629 ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 919−919
