Metallomics in 2010—Our growth continues!
Welcome to the first issue of Metallomics in 2011.We are very pleased to say that 2010 has been another excellent year for Metallomics, and during this time, the journal has continued to grow. As a result of this growth, the number of issues published increased from 6 to 12. This is a great indication that Metallomics is quickly becoming established as the journal of choice for the emerging field of integrated biometal science. We look forward to more authors choosing Metallomics in 2011!
Greater visibility of the community and the work published in the journal is a key aspect in this growth. Metallomics is now indexed in MedLine and Scopus, and this will ensure that research published in the journal will be found and read by as wide an audience as possible. Evidence for this can also be seen in our excellent first Immediacy Index of 0.755,† demonstrating that articles are not only topical, but are being read and cited quickly!
Hand in hand with the growth of the journal, the subject of metallomics continues to develop, and symposia dedicated to research in this area have featured at several international conferences throughout the year, including most recently at FACSS 2010 in Raleigh, USA and the 4th Asia Pacific Winter Conference held in Chengdu, China. A Metallomics Forum was also held in Japan in November, and we are looking forward to the 4th International Symposium on Metallomics (iSM 2011) to be held in June 2011 in Münster, Germany. We are delighted to say that in 2011, Metallomics will be publishing a collection of articles highlighting the growth of the subject in Japan, and also a themed issue of work that is presented at the iSM 2011 conference.
In 2011, we are planning to highlight several areas of research where the metallomics community is developing, including themed issues on Metals in Neurodegenerative Diseases, guest edited by David Brown from the University of Bath; a themed issue on Cytochromes, guest edited by Norbert Jakubowski from BAM, Berlin, Germany and Peter Roos, from the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Germany; and a themed issue on the topic of Metal Toxicity, guest edited by Chris Rensing, from the University of Arizona and Gregor Grass from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. For further details on these and future themed issues, please keep an eye on our website www.rsc.org/metallomics, or do mailto:metallomics-RSC@rsc.org at mailto:metallomics-RSC@rsc.org.
We would also like to thank all our Editorial and Advisory Board members for their advice and support during 2010. Please help us welcome new Editorial Board members; Rachel Austin, from Bates College, USA, David Koppenaal, from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA and Mary-Lou Guerinot from Dartmouth College, USA. Their additional and varied expertise will certainly help us to expand and develop the journal into new areas of research in the future. We would also like to warmly thank Ariel Anbar, Gary Hieftje and Hiroki Haraguchi who will be joining the Advisory Board, for their invaluable advice and support in launching and establishing Metallomics. We also welcome new Advisory Board members Al Crumbliss, from Duke University, USA, and Partha Basu, Duquesne University, USA, and look forward to working with them in 2011.
Dave Koppenaal
Mary-Lou Guerinot
Members of the Editorial team will be attending conferences throughout the year, and we hope this will be a great opportunity to meet you and hear your comments and suggestions for the journal. We will be attending the Gordon Research Conferences on Metals in Biology and Cell Biology of Metals, the International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) to be held in Vancouver, Canada and the 5th International Conference on Metals and Genetics (ICMG 2011) in Kobe, Japan. Please do mailto:metallomics-RSC@rsc.org if you would like further information, and we look forward to seeing you there.
It is also now easier to keep up with developments of the journal online, via the Metallomics blog, http://blogs.rsc.org/mt, or follow us on Twitter, http://twitter.com/metallomics.
News from RSC Publishing
Quality and Growth Continues
It’s quality that really matters at RSC Publishing. And the 2009 Journal Citation Reports® proved that our quality is better than ever as our average impact factor (IF) rose from 4.9 to 5.4. It’s an impressive figure, especially when compared with the average for a chemistry journal of 2.4.But we don’t rely on just one or two titles to boost our average. It’s our entire collection that counts: of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, 25% are from RSC Publishing; and 90% of our titles have an IF over 3.
Our list of titles continues to grow: Food & Function and Catalysis Science & Technology are the latest titles to join our expanding portfolio. Plus, the number of articles we’ve published has increased by 74% in the last 2 years alone. We remain committed to providing a world-class publishing service to our authors, and delivering cutting-edge chemical science to readers throughout the world.
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2011 Books
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Lastly, may we take this opportunity to thank all our authors and readers for their support in 2010 and wish you a very happy and prosperous new year in 2011!
May Copsey, Editor
Vibhuti Patel, Deputy Editor
Footnote |
| † Journal Citation Reports®—The Immediacy Index is the average number of citations to an article, in the year of publication. |
| This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2011 |