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Thank You For Your Continued Support in 2015 Papers with Longevity: Long-Term “Inhabitants” of Our Top Download Lists13 Hot Topics in Materials Chemistry and the Immediacy Index Long-Term versus Short-Term Impact14 Mega-Journals and Peer Review: Can Quality and Standards Survive?15 Reviewer RequestsWhen To Click “I Agree” and When To Say No16 V. Virtual Issue on Batteries. This year, we teamed up with ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters for a virtual issue that drew together the top 10 papers on batteries from each journal. The accompanying editorial and link to the 30 papers of the issue is here: Recent Advances in Battery Science and Technology17 VI. Social Media. As mentioned above, we are finding Twitter and Facebook to be real-time channels through which we listen to, and communicate with, the materials community. If you have never logged on to Twitter, for example, I encourage you to give it a try. Although social media uses the verb “to follow”, it is not just about following, as we have authors and readers fire their comments and links our way on a daily basis, and we are often engaged in open and public, twoway conversations online. Please join us. Again, our Twitter handle/address is @ChemMater. Please also consider signing up for ACS e-alerts (http://pubs.acs.org/page/follow.html). For Next Year. We will be continuing with all of these features, but we also plan a number of new additions, including a special issue on methods and protocols for materials chemistry and applications. The biology and medicinal fields have protocol journals, such as Nature Methods and Nature Protocols, but the materials field has no such flavor of journal. We believe that learning the “how to’s” in a new area should not, in a perfect world, be onerous and difficult, but experimental sections often may not capture the subtleties of a chemical reaction, for instance. This special issue, with its detailed descriptions of experimental procedures and accompanying movies and slides, should enable rapid progress. We are always open to new ideas with respect to topics for editorials (which can be guest-written upon invitation, if you have something you believe that needs to be heard, or would like to share), new issues, developments we should consider, or anything else of interest. Thank you again for all your support, and I am look forward to talking with you in 2016. Best wishes for your research, and for a productive 2016. Sincerely,
his editorial is appearing in issue 24, our final issue of 2015. We would like to take the time to thank you, our authors, reviewers, and readers, for your continued support of Chemistry of Materials. We greatly appreciate hearing from all of you through a number of different ways, including in-person conversations, email of course, and increasingly, social media (Twitter @ChemMater, and Facebook). Some of the highlights of this year include: I. New Members of the Chemistry of Materials’ 1k Club. In this series, we interview authors whose papers in Chemistry of Materials have been cited more than 1000 times. This year, we “inducted” the following new members: Tom Mallouk & Nina Kovtyukhova, Layer-by-Layer Growth of Graphene Oxide-Based Films for Electronics Applications in 1999: Early Leaders1 Jeffrey W. Gilman, Catheryn L. Jackson, Alexander B. Morgan, Emmanuel P. Giannelis, Evangelos Manias, Chemistry of Materials’ 1k Club: Understanding the Complexity of Nanocomposites2 Jimmy Yu, F− Doping on TiO2 Provided Important Insights into Photocatalysis3 Mietek Jaroniec & Michal Kruk, From Adsorption to Ordered Mesoporous Materials4 John Goodenough & Youngsik Kim, Challenges for Rechargeable Li Batteries5 II. Ten New Exciting New Additions to our Up-andComing Series. We invite rising stars, “up-and-coming” young scientists who are typically young professors, to write a perspective that describes their research and why they chose this area as the place in which to launch their careers. Thus far in 2015, we published 10 beautifully written and compelling perspectives, which are listed in this recent editorial: Up-and-Coming Series of Perspectives from Early Career Stars in Materials6 III. Editorials on Best Practices. To help address issues of standards and reproducibility, we continue to publish best practices documents that outline the spirit, and minimum requirements, for a publication in specific areas. This year, we published two best practices pieces, in the areas of organic field effect transistors, and colloidal inorganic nanomaterials: Best Practices for Reporting Organic Field Effect Transistor Device Performance7 Best Practices for the Reporting of Colloidal Inorganic Nanomaterials8 IV. Editorials on Publishing. Every issue contains and editorial; many are updates on recent changes, but we also publish a number that try to provide educational insights into the publishing world. Examples of these educational editorials include the following: Pre-Publication Peer ReviewEvidence and Editors9 How We Choose Cover Images10 Give Your ACS Author Rewards a Try: Make Your Paper Open Access11 Materials ScienceA New Era for Chemistry12
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