Editorial Cite This: J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95, 2089−2090
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Volume 95 in Review Norbert J. Pienta* Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2556, United States ABSTRACT: The accomplishments of the past year, 2018, Volume 95, are discussed. KEYWORDS: General Public
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This volume includes a number of Journal articles that were published as ACS Editors’ Choice selections, designating them as open access and thus available to a broader audience:4 • Characterizing the Landscape: Collegiate Organizations’ Chemistry Outreach Practices by Justin M. Pratt and Ellen J. Yezierski, p 7 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00627) • A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry by Noémie Elgrishi, Kelley J. Rountree, Brian D. McCarthy, Eric S. Rountree, Thomas T. Eisenhart, and Jillian L. Dempsey, p 197 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00361) • Adapting Assessment Tasks To Support Three-Dimensional Learning by Sonia M. Underwood, Lynmarie A. Posey, Deborah G. Herrington, Justin H. Carmel, and Melanie M. Cooper, p 207 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00645) • “It’s Only the Major Product That We Care About in Organic Chemistry”: An Analysis of Students’ Annotations of Reaction Coordinate Diagrams by Maia Popova and Stacey Lowery Bretz, p 1086 (DOI: 10.1021/ acs.jchemed.8b00153) • Whether and How Authentic Contexts Using a Virtual Chemistry Lab Support Learning by Jodi L. Davenport, Anna N. Rafferty, and David J. Yaron, p 1250 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00048) • Playing with Fire: Chemical Safety Expertise Required by Samuella B. Sigmann, p 1736 (DOI: 10.1021/ acs.jchemed.8b00152) Several guest editorials were contributed from members across the chemistry and educational community, writing on a variety of topics: • The Replication Crisis and Chemistry Education Research by Melanie M. Cooper, p 1 (DOI: 10.1021/ acs.jchemed.7b00907) • A Central Learning Outcome for the Central Science by Thomas A. Holme and James E. Hutchison, p 499 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00174) • The Mantra of Graduate Education Reform: Why the Prayers Aren’t Answered by Michael T. Ashby and Michelle A. Maher, p 1083 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00354) The end of a volume gives us the opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments and also to consider the future. The
s we close the 95th volume and the Journal moves toward its 100th anniversary, the Journal continues its important role in documenting the research and scholarship of the chemistry education community worldwide. We gratefully acknowledge the creative contributions from our authors, the efforts of our reviewers, and the activities of our editorial teamstaff and associate editors. Thus, the author’s click of the “submit” button just starts the series of events with checkin and adherence to author guidelines1 by staff in Georgia (Sullins Benson and Jayne Plymale). Assignment of the manuscript to an associate editor for external review is managed by the editor-in-chief and by Mary Saecker, JCE managing editor. Some manuscripts require a triage process to make them more suitable for review if possible. Besides Mary Saecker, our developmental editors for writing and graphics (Bernadette Caldwell and Randall Wildman, respectively) are part of the Wisconsin office. We thank them all for their diligent efforts. The peer-review process is shepherded by the associate editors: Arthur Halpern, Renée Cole, Gregory Rushton, John Risley, and Marcy Towns. These editors select and invite each manuscript’s reviewers, adjudicate each paper’s suitability, and guide the authors through the review process. Because each submission has unique content, which in turn elicits particular feedback from the reviews, each paper requires individual attention. The editors, in concert with myriad reviewers, sustain the enterprise, assuring that readers can expect content of high value and excellent quality. If you are not already a reviewer, yet you could contribute to the Journal’s peer-review efforts, consider taking steps to become a reviewer.2 Publication of the Journal involves many steps and details that require partners; thus, we acknowledge the Journal of Chemical Education Board of Publication (our fiduciary oversight), the JCE Editorial Advisory Board, and our publication partner, the ACS Publications Division, Journals Publishing Group, in Columbus, OH, and Washington, DC. Thank you and congratulations to all for another successful volume! Of course, one can assess the Journal with criteria such as the number of article downloads, journal impact factor, and total number of papers cited.3 Volume 95 comprises ca. 380 papers and ca. 2300 pages. All of the metrics continue to increase, demonstrating real value to all of our stakeholders. The steadily increasing impact factor for the Journal of Chemical Education is at 1.758 for 2017. © 2018 American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc.
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Journal of Chemical Education has issued a call for papers for a special issue on “Reimagining Chemistry Education: Systems Thinking, and Green and Sustainable Chemistry”.5 The Guest Editors for the Journal’s fourth special issue are Peter G. Mahaffy, Edward J. Brush, Julie A. Haack, and Felix M. Ho. The deadline for submission is Monday, April 1, 2019. We welcome Tom Holme (Iowa State University) as the new editor-in-chief designee as we make the transition to a new era under his leadership starting in January 2020.6 We extend our sincere thanks to the chemical education community for every contribution to the Journal and look forward to the next challenges in the year and volume to come.
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Norbert J. Pienta: 0000-0002-1197-6151 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. Norbert J. Pienta is Professor and Director of General Chemistry at the University of Georgia, where he teaches and conducts research and scholarship about the teaching and learning of chemistry, devising methods, instruments, and analytics to characterize student learning and increase student success. He currently also serves as the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Chemical Education.
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(1) Author Guidelines for the Journal of Chemical Education. https://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/submission/jceda8/jceda8_ authguide.pdf (accessed Nov 2018). (2) Becoming a Reviewer for the Journal. https://pubs.acs.org/ page/jceda8/submission/reviewers.html (accessed Nov 2018). (3) For a description of journal impact factors, see https://clarivate. com/essays/impact-factor/ (accessed Nov 2018). (4) ACS Editors’ Choice. https://pubs.acs.org/editorschoice/ (accessed Nov 2018). (5) Mahaffy, P. G.; Brush, E. J.; Haack, J. A.; Ho, F. M. Journal of Chemical Education Call for PapersSpecial Issue on Reimagining Chemistry Education: Systems Thinking, and Green and Sustainable Chemistry. J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95 (10), 1689−1691. (6) Yezierski, E. J. Announcing the Ninth Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Education. J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95 (10), 1687− 1688.
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