Thirty years merits some celebratory ardour. The festivities will start with an event at the 233rd ACS National Meeting and Exposition to be held in Chicago. Another event will be held later in the year in Europe, details of which will be announced on the NJC website. We wish to use these occasions to thank all of the authors, referees and readers who have supported NJC over the years. Whether you are an “old” or a “new” NJC supporter, we invite you to join us sometime in 2007 to celebrate this anniversary.
Throughout 2007, NJC will be publishing “anniversary” papers. The first one, from the group of Jerry Atwood, NJC’s Co-Editor-in-Chief, introduces a series of papers on zinc. Zinc, the 30th element of the periodic table, will be a focus for 2007—Perspective reviews on various aspects of the chemistry of zinc have been commissioned to appear this year.
We would also like to welcome Barbara Nawrot (biochemistry) from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Łódź and Mats Almgren (materials) of Uppsala University to the Editorial Board. At the same time, we thank departing Board members John Gladysz, Luca Prodi and David Reinhoudt for their contributions to the journal.
In other news, a new website, which complements the RSC NJC website, is now available at http://www.njc.cnrs.fr. Here you will find information about NJC’s history, the people working on the journal and the latest news concerning NJC.
Successful initiatives begun in the past few years will be continued in 2007. Following the thematic issue on “Trends in Supramolecular Chemistry” published in October 2006, we will be publishing another thematic issue on dendrimers later this spring. This issue will contain contributions from speakers at the 5th International Dendrimers Symposium being organized by Jean-Pierre Majoral in Toulouse later this summer.
The NJC Interface Poster Prizes, initiated in 2005 to recognize innovative work at the interface of two or more disciplines, were awarded in 2006 to several young chemists: to Rie Wakabayashi and Deanna D’Alessandro at the ICCP-4 International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines held in Rome in July, and to Anja Graesslin, Nathalie Mougin and Ross Gordon at the 1st European Chemistry Congress in Budapest last August.
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Plate1 Professor Mike Scott presents Ms. Rie Wakabayashi with her NJC Interface Poster Prize certificate at the ICCP-4 conference last July. |
In 2006, RSC Publishing awarded more than 20 prizes and sponsored lectureships to high-profile researchers. The recipients gained financial support to present and discuss their work at events throughout the world, in recognition of their research achievements. More than £15000 (or $30
000) was granted to the recipients in total, to cover travel expenses to sponsored lectureships in countries such as China, Japan, the US and the UK.
In 2007 NJC will be sponsoring lectures, and further Interface Poster Prizes will be awarded. Full details of these events and the conferences where the editors and Board members of NJC will be present will be posted on the Journal website.
With the increased collaboration at the biology–chemistry interface, we would like the content of NJC to reflect this. We are strengthening the editorial board to reflect this important interface, and will be attending a number of meetings in the area this year.
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. The average impact factor during the 1999–2005 period for NJC was 2.5, substantially up from the 1.7 average of the previous 8 years. This average value of 2.5 was exceeded for the last two years, placing NJC within the top ranks of general chemistry journals.
Subscribers to NJC will now link from the 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.
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.
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 whole books. The collection is fully searchable and integrated with RSC Journal content. To search the collection or for further information, visit www.rsc.org/ebooks.
We hope you will agree that 2007 promises to be an exciting time for NJC and its authors and readers. We hope that we will have the opportunity to meet you at one of the birthday celebrations.
Denise Parent
(Editor, CNRS)
Sarah Ruthven
(Editor, RSC)
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