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Cite This: Anal. Chem. 2018, 90, 1433−1433
Virtual Issue Highlighting Selected Women Analytical Chemists
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ata from recent OXIDE surveys demonstrate that, despite many years of awareness that women are underrepresented in advanced faculty ranks, the gap in professional stature remains.1 The American Chemical Society has also made it clear that most major national awards receive a small number women nominees, and women are underrepresented among winners.2 In hopes of countering these trends, we have assembled a virtual issue featuring talented women chemists who publish in Analytical Chemistry. While the list of authors featured in this virtual issue is not nearly exhaustive of all the contributions by women, we feel that these works represent some of the best papers written since 2015 with women corresponding authors. Read this issue to find 36 exciting advances that embody the scope of Analytical Chemistry. In the area of separations, you’ll find papers ranging in topic from Mary Wirth’s use of slip flow in submicrometer particles to provide higher efficiency HPLC separations (10.1021/ ac504683d) to Ying Ge’s development of a serial size exclusion chromatography strategy to enable high-resolution size-based fractionation of intact proteins from complex mixtures (10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00380). In the area of electrochemistry, topics range from Julie MacPherson’s development of diamond electrodes with sp2 regions for improved performance (10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03732) to Maryanne Collinson’s potentiometric measurements made in subnanoliter droplets (10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04668). Papers focused on spectroscopy range in topic from Bhavya Sharma’s use of spatially offset Raman detection of model neurochemicals through the skull (10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00985) to Karen Fauld’s description of special considerations needed when using multiple extrinsic surface-enhanced Raman scattering labels in assays (10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02776). This virtual issue includes many papers in the area of mass spectrometry, including a feature article by Erin Carlson describing natural product structure elucidation using collision induced dissociation fragmentation mechanisms (10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01543) and Yu Xia’s quantitative method for profiling unsaturated fatty acids based on tandem mass spectrometry (10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02834). A variety of other exciting papers detail high-throughput assays, applications of nuclear magnetic resonance, and novel sensing modalities. We hope that this virtual issue inspires the readers of Analytical Chemistry to recognize excellence among their women colleagues and mentor the next generation of scientists to enhance diversity.
ORCID
Christy L. Haynes: 0000-0002-5420-5867 Amanda Hummon: 0000-0002-1969-9013 B. Jill Venton: 0000-0002-5096-9309 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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(1) Widener, A. C&E News 2017, 95 (44), 18−20. (2) Jacobs, M. C&E News 2016, 94 (5), 39. Chow, C. Increasing Successful Award Nominations from Underrepresented Groups, WCC Newsletter, 2017; https://communities.acs.org/groups/wccnewsletter/blog/2017/06/06/increasing-successful-awardnominations-from-underrepresented-groups.
Christy L. Haynes, Associate Editor, Analytical Chemistry and Elmore H. Northey Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Amanda Hummon, Features Panel, Analytical Chemistry and Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University B. Jill Venton, Features Panel, Analytical Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia © 2018 American Chemical Society
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Published: February 6, 2018 1433
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b00219 Anal. Chem. 2018, 90, 1433−1433
