Happy New Year from JAAS
Welcome to JAAS issue 1, 2007.21 years and counting
2006 was a birthday milestone for JAAS which saw the journal celebrate 21 years of publishing. To mark this event, there were several special activities organised during the year including a 21st anniversary web page and celebratory editorials and a reception sponsored by the journal at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tucson, Arizona.
Inspired by the 21st anniversary, David Koppenaal and Mike Perkins created the striking atomic spectrometry timeline which featured on the cover of issue 12, 2006 (see below). This atomic spectrometry timeline indicates the introduction, development and use of key techniques and methods. On the far right are projected hot application areas of metallomics, elemental imaging, and radioisotopes. Watch for an interactive version available on the website soon.
We would like to thank all of our editorial and advisory board members who contributed to our Editors’ Choice web page—choices range from Board members’ first papers in JAAS to those detailing the current state of the art. Board member humour can also be detected by those willing to search for it.
There is still time to visit our 21st anniversary web pages, which include our celebratory editorials, a compilation of the most-cited articles and the most impactful articles in JAAS viawww.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/JA/Celebrating_21_years_of_publishing.asp
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In issue 10, 2006, Norbert Jakubowski introduced his new role as Reviews Editor and we are pleased to publish in this issue an excellent review by Annemie Bogaerts on Plasma diagnostics and numerical simulations: Insight into the heart of analytical glow discharges (see page 13). We strongly urge those who are interested in preparing tutorial or critical review articles to contact Norbert.
Young analytical scientists
JAAS published its second Young Analytical Scientists issue in November 2006. The issue contains articles highlighting research conducted by outstanding young researchers working in the field of analytical atomic spectrometry or neighbouring fields strongly influenced by advancements made in analytical atomic spectrometry. We were delighted to publish an excellent selection of 29 articles and would like to thank all the authors who contributed to this issue. The issue also contains an editorial from Guest Editor Spiros Pergantis as well as photographs and biographies of the corresponding authors.Special thanks go to Professor Pergantis. In addition to his role as Guest Editor for the issue, Spiros retired from the JAAS editorial board in 2006 after six years and we would like to sincerely thank him for his support and enthusiasm.
JAAS—the leading journal in its field
JAAS retained its position as the leading journal in its field with an impressive impact factor of 3.6 and is listed as a top three primary journal in both fields of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy.JAAS achieves this position both by the high quality work submitted by our authors and through the efforts of our referees to uphold high standards, which allows us to publish high impact research in all areas of fundamental and applied atomic spectrometry. We sincerely thank you for your support.
The 2005 impact factors, released by ISI® in June 2006, showed an impressive average increase of over 10% for RSC journals. Calculated annually, ISI® impact factors provide an indication of the quality of a journal—they take into account the number of citations in a given year for all the citeable documents published within a journal in the preceding two years.
RSC Open Science
Authors publishing in RSC journals now have the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their accepted communication, research paper or review article openly available to all via the web, with RSC Open Science. The scheme is only made available to authors once their papers have been accepted for publication, following the normal rigorous peer-review procedures (RSC Open Science operates in parallel with the normal publication route, which remains free to authors). Authors who have published their work in RSC journals are also be able to retrospectively apply for their work to be included in the scheme. Further information can be found at: www.rsc.org/openscience.What our authors say
We are always happy to receive feedback from authors, especially if it helps us to further improve the publishing experience. Because we believe that RSC Publishing offers the best service of any scientific publisher, we have published a selection of the comments we have received from authors from around the globe—take a look at www.rsc.org/authorquotes.Changes and developments to Chemical Science, Chemical Technology and Chemical Biology and news of Chemistry World
Showcasing hot science from RSC journals in Chemical Science, Chemical Technology and Chemical Biology has proved very popular with readers and authors alike. In fact, the free supplements have become so successful that from January 2007, all issues will be eight pages (in print), contain new article types and come complete with a fresh new look for the front page. Supplementary material will also be available online.Meanwhile Chemistry World, the RSC’s award-winning magazine, launched two new web features at the end of 2006. The Chemistry World Blog is an interactive forum for news, discussion and opinion, looking at the science hitting the headlines. The Chemistry World Podcast interviews high profile scientists about the latest and hottest topics in science, and is free to download at www.rsc.org/chemistryworld.
Technological innovation
2006 has seen RSC Publishing invest significantly in technological developments across all of its products. Introduced last year, RSS feeds, or ‘really simple syndication’, have proved extremely popular with our readers. Subscribers receive alerts as soon as an Advance Article is published in their journal of choice, providing both the graphical abstract and text from a journal’s contents page. You can subscribe via the JAAS homepage.Subscribers to JAAS will now link from journals’ contents lists straight through to the HTML view of selected articles, in just one quick step. Here you can download references to citation managers (such as EndNote, Ref Manager, ProCite and BibTex), sign up for RSS feeds, search for citing articles (otherwise known as ‘forward linking’), print the article with just one click and send the article to a friend or colleague.
From 2007, authors publishing in RSC journals will see their science “come alive” thanks to an exciting new project pioneered by the RSC. Enhanced HTML in RSC articles will allow chemical and biological compounds mentioned in the text to be identified; by clicking on the compound readers will be able to obtain further information about that compound, including a downloadable structure plus a list of relevant subject areas. The RSC is the first publisher to utilise the International Chemical Identifier (InChI) (a digital equivalent of the IUPAC name for any particular covalent compound where structures are expressed in terms of five layers of information—connectivity, tautomeric, isotopic, stereochemical, and electronic) for a project of this type and scope. The technology will be used to enhance RSS alerts so that future news feeds can include chemical structures and other enhanced information. RSC Publishing intends to evolve this project to match author and reader needs so tell us what you think: we welcome your feedback on this new functionality and will incorporate your ideas to develop the service further. Find out more at www.rsc.org/sciencecomealive.
These developments demonstrate the investment in publishing products and services over the past year and 2007 will see us enhancing our products further.
Not just journals…
As well as an impressive portfolio of prestigious journals, the RSC has a wide selection of products for anyone with an interest in the chemical sciences. Visit the shop at www.rsc.org/shop to browse over 400 book titles, subscribe to or purchase an individual article from JAAS or any other RSC journal, join or renew RSC membership, or register to attend a conference or training event.In addition, RSC Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of the RSC eBook Collection. RSC books are now available online and can be easily downloaded as either chapters or books. The collection is fully searchable and also integrated with RSC Journal content. To search the collection or for further information, visit www.rsc.org/ebooks.
Finally
We hope that you enjoy reading this issue of JAAS. On behalf of the JAAS editorial board and staff we wish you a happy and prosperous 2007 and look forward to bringing your high quality work to the JAAS readers in the forthcoming year.Claire Darby, Editor
Gary M. Hiefjte, Chair, JAAS Editorial Board
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