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Recapping the Year at ACS Catalysis In addition to this first time activity for ACS Catalysis, we have carried on with some journal traditions as well. To ensure we continue to receive advice and feedback from a broad crosssection of the community, we rotate scientists on and off our EAB, and we appoint emerging researchers to our early career advisory board (ECAB) on an annual basis. This year, we recognize and thank eight departing researchers for their years of service on the EAB, including Xile Hu (É cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Wolfgang Kroutil (University of Graz), Manos Mavrikakis (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Magnus Rueping (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Melanie Sanford (University of Michigan), Shannon Stahl (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Keiichi Tomishige (Tohoku University), and Shu-Li You (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry). In parallel, we will welcome nine new members to the EAB in 2019: Yasuhisa Asano (Toyama Prefectural University), Silvia Bordiga (University of Oslo/University of Turin), Juventino J. Garcia Alejandre (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Aiwen Lei (Wuhan University), Stefan Mecking (University of Konstanz), Eranda Nikolla (Wayne State University), Annabella Selloni (Princeton University), Nicholas Turner (University of Manchester), and Yanqin Wang (East China University of Science and Technology). The 2019 EAB will contain scientists from 17 countries, providing critical guidance for the editorial team. Coupled with our 2018 ECAB,9 who met with the journal at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Boston and through several teleconferences, the editors are able to gather feedback from a great diversity of sources. This year we also witnessed a group of European research funding organizations shake up the global publishing landscape with the announcement of a proposed Plan S.13,14 While some fields of scientific research have relatively rapidly moved to embrace an open access model that shifts the costs of publication from reader to author, the chemical community has responded more slowly, with limited author demand for this option to date. Regardless of what the future holds from the perspective of journal economics,15 we as an editorial team remain united and steadfastly focused on service to the whole of the global catalysis community, even as outside pressures seem aimed at disrupting the status quo. Finally, I will close with the reminder that our primary focus at the journal is on publishing outstanding, rigorously vetted research on catalysis. With this as our core driver, we periodically publish editorials and perspectives describing best practices.16−18 This year, Associate Editor Susannah Scott penned a wonderful editorial on catalyst lifetime and the importance of properly measuring and reporting catalyst stability and deactivation.19 Undoubtedly, this is a topic that requires consideration broadly across our community. I look forward to 2019 being a vibrant year for catalysis!
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he past 12 months brought exciting developments in catalysis, including substantial growth at ACS Catalysis. Author and reader interest in the journal continues to grow, with 2018 witnessing a 20% increase in submissions and publications over 2017. The editorial team believes that ACS Catalysis should continue to offer rapid publication and rigorous peer review standards without long delays and undue burdens placed on the authors. In fact, because we have been preprint friendly for a long time, numerous authors have chosen to disseminate their work as preprints on ChemRxiv before the peer review process, cementing an early release date for their contributions to the literature.1−7 ChemRxiv has introduced “Direct to Journal Transfer,” which will help authors post a preprint to ChemRxiv and submit the manuscript to a journal submission website like ACS Paragon Plus.8 Together, with 17 associate editors that are practicing scientists, we work to deliver an outstanding journal and consistent author experience for the community. Our 17th associate editor was appointed in April of this year. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya of the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society has brought her wealth of experience in heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, and surface science to the team.9 This appointment was made in response to community demand, as measured by submissions in various topical areas of catalysis. When such growth dictates addition of an associate editor in a key subject area, then as a team we discuss potential candidates who may have the requisite experience and who have demonstrated themselves to be outstanding researchers and reviewers. Our distribution of published papers has historically broken out as 51−53% heterogeneous catalysis, 39−41% molecular catalysis, and about 8% biocatalysis and enzymology. Noteworthy in 2018 was a substantial uptick in published papers in biocatalysis and enzymology, with this topical area now surpassing 100 publications per year and representing 9.5% of the ACS Catalysis portfolio of publications. It is fitting that the rise in biocatalysis publications came in a year where a representative from this community was awarded the ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalysis, Nicholas Turner of the University of Manchester.10 And of course, catalysis researchers will remember this year for decades to come because of the recognition of Frances Arnold’s work on directed evolution of enzymes with the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.11 As a global journal, our editorial team and editorial advisory board (EAB) are populated with researchers from across the catalysis community and around the world. In May this year, we acknowledged the significant contributions of Chinese catalysis researchers by gathering at the Chinese Chemical Society Meeting in Hangzhou for our first EAB meeting held outside the United States.12 At this event, we focused our discussion not only on the growth of research in China but also in all of Asia, and how ACS Catalysis could best serve this part of our community. © 2018 American Chemical Society
Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief Georgia Institute of Technology
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