Catalysis Science & Technology—What a difference a year makes!
It hardly seems like 12 months since we were preparing for the launch of the first published articles in Catalysis Science & Technology. Although we had opened for submissions in October 2010, it was only in the first month in 2011 that we started to plan for the first issue, including launch events, Editorial Board meetings and conference attendance.2011 was a busy year for the journal, with a number of significant achievements. These achievements would not have been possible without the support and direction given by the journal's two Editors-in-Chief, Professors Cynthia Friend (Stanford University, USA) and Piet van Leeuven (ICIQ, Spain). The year started very well, as we received in March the very positive news that Catalysis Science & Technology had been fast tracked for inclusion in Scopus. Since the journal successfully completed Thompson/ISI's selection criteria for inclusion in Web of Science in September 2011, readers can now find Catalysis Science & Technology via both platforms.
Since the first issue, published as the April 2011 issue, Catalysis Science & Technology has published 9 issues, containing 194 articles (36 reviews, 34 communications and 124 full papers), covering all areas of catalysis: Homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, organocatalysis and biocatalysis. Articles published in the journal in 2011 have come from 31 countries. The percentage contribution from these countries is shown in Fig. 1.
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| Fig. 1 Geographical contributions to Catalysis Science & Technology. | ||
Catalysis Science & Technology was launched with the aim to be a home for the best articles from all areas of catalysis, all brought together in one journal. We are very pleased with the high quality of the articles that have already been published in the journal. One measure of the high quality of published articles is the citation count for the articles already appearing in the journal and the most cited articles to date are given in Table 1.
| Two-dimensional zeolites: dream or reality, Wieslaw J. Roth and Jiri Cejka | Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 43 DOI: 10.1039/c0cy00027b |
| A straightforward zinc-catalysed reduction of sulfoxides to sulfides, Stephan Enthaler | Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 104 DOI: 10.1039/c0cy00039f |
| Activity improvement of gold yolk-shell catalysts for CO oxidation by doping with TiO 2 , Robert Guettel, Michael Paul and Ferdi Schüth | Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 65 DOI: 10.1039/c0cy00026d |
| Superparamagnetic nanoparticles for asymmetric catalysis-a perfect match, Kalluri V. S Ranganath and Frank Glorius | Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 13 DOI: 10.1039/c0cy00069h |
In 2011, Catalysis Science & Technology articles have also been highlighted in chemistry news magazines, including the RSC's Chemistry World and ACS's Chemical & Engineering News. Two such are articles highlighted in this way are:
Fe-TAML/hydrogen peroxide degradation of concentrated solutions of the commercial azo dye tartrazine, Evan S. Beach, Ryan T. Malecky, Roberto R. Gil, Colin P. Horwitz and Terrence J. Collins, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 437, DOI: 10.1039/c0cy00070a and Oxidative esterification of 1,2-propanediol using gold and gold-palladium supported nanoparticles, Gemma L. Brett, Peter J. Miedziak, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Jose A. Lopez-Sanchez, Nicholas F. Dummer, Ramchandra Tiruvalam, Christopher J. Kiely, David W. Knight, Stuart H. Taylor, David J. Morgan, Albert F. Carley and Graham J. Hutchings, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/c1cy00254f.
The journal has a number of Editorial Offices which are open for submitted manuscripts. The first of these were based in the UK, USA and Japan, with Associate Editors Professors Paul Kamer, Paul Chirik and Noritaka Mizuno, respectively. In November we opened the fourth Editorial Office, that of Professor Javier Perez-Ramirez, ETH, Switzerland, reflecting the impressive growth that we have seen in submitted articles. The Associate Editors are joined on the Editorial Board by a number of world-class scientists: Professors David Jackson (Glasgow University, UK), Stan Golunski (Cardiff University), Deryn Fogg (University of Ottawa, Canada), Kuiling Ding (Shanghai Institute for Organic Chemistry, China), Axel Knop-Gericke (Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany), and Johannes de Vries (DSM Innovative Synthesis BV/University of Groningen, The Netherlands). All Editorial Board members contribute to setting the scientific direction and standards of the journal.
We celebrated the journal at a number of events through the year, sometimes in the form of poster prizes, sometimes launch parties. We started the conference season with a celebration at the ACS Spring National meeting in Anaheim, CA, USA (Fig. 2), and this was then followed with a reception at the 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS), Shanghai, China, in Shanghai. The reception at the ACS Spring meeting was very well attended (standing room only) and during the evening, Associate Editor Professor Paul Chirik addressed the audience and at OMCOS Editorial Board member Kuiling Ding introduced the Catalysis Science & Technology sponsored lecture by Ei-ichi Negishi.
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| Fig. 2 Celebrating Catalysis Science & Technology at the Spring ACS meeting. | ||
We were very pleased to support younger members of the research community with a number poster prizes throughout the year. Congratulations to the following Catalysis Science & Technology poster prize winners in since the launch of the journal: Toritse Bob-Egbe, Imperial College London, UK (Dalton Discussion 12: Catalytic C–H and C–X Bond Activation), Helen Daly, from Queens University Belfast (Applied Catalyst Deactivation hosted by the RSC Applied Catalysis Group), Zhao Chao, University of Birmingham (34th Annual British Zeolite Association Conference), Antonio Feula, University of Birmingham (Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment symposium), Thomas Dröge, University of Münster (OMCOS) and Carolin Ziebart, Leibniz-Institut für Katalysee. V., Rostock, Germany, (International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis).
We have had a busy first year for the journal (see Table 2) and it has been a delight to see the excellent articles and issues published (Fig. 3). Thank you for all your support for our new journal, as readers, authors and referees. I look forward to another busy 12 months!
| July 2010 | Journal announced |
| August 2010 | Editor-in-Chief Professor Piet van Leeuwen appointed |
| October 2010 | Two Associate Editors appointed: Professors Paul Chirik and Noritaka Mizuno |
| October 2010 | Journal opened for submissions |
| November 2010 | A third Associate Editor appointed: Professor Paul Kamer |
| December 2010 | Editor-in-Chief Professor Cynthia Friend appointed |
| January 2011 | First Advanced Articles published |
| March 2011 | First issue published |
| March 2011 | Fast track acceptance for inclusion in Scopus |
| March 2011 | Launch event at Spring ACS meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA |
| April 2011 | First Editorial Board meeting |
| July 2011 | Launch event at 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis, Shanghai, China |
| August 2011 | Sponsored event at EuropaCat, Glasgow, UK |
| September 2011 | Journal accepted for inclusion in Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge |
| November 2011 | Fourth Associate Editor office opened: Professor Javier Perez-Ramirez |
| December 2011 | First Catalysis Science & Technology themed issue published: Heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals |
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| Fig. 3 Cover artwork for the first 9 issues of Catalysis Science & Technology. | ||
Jamie Humphrey
Managing Editor, Catalysis Science & Technology
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