News from the Green Chemistry Editors

2011 was a successful year for Green Chemistry and we would like to thank all our authors, referees and Editors for their support of the Journal. Green Chemistry continues to grow and we were pleased with the latest 5-year impact factor of 6.06 for the Journal – reinforcing that as the Journal enters its 14th year of publication Green Chemistry is publishing high-quality research for a greener, sustainable future.

We would like to use this opportunity to mention some of the 2011 Journal highlights from our perspective.

Last year marked the introduction of an Associate Editor for the Journal, with CJ Li from McGill University handling papers through the peer-review process from January 2011. We are pleased that we are able to offer authors the choice of who they wish to handle their paper when submitting to the Journal, and CJ is enjoying seeing the publication process from a different viewpoint.

We also published an editorial policy in the February issue of Green Chemistry regarding the use of ionic liquids in papers published in the Journal. Whilst attending conferences this year, we received positive comments from the green chemistry community regarding the introduction of this policy and the Editorial Board will be looking to publish more of these in the future when appropriate.

Further to the 1st PACN Green Chemistry Congress in November 2010, at which a number of the Editorial Board members presented their research, a report from this Congress was launched at a meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in May 2011. This coincided with an Editorial in the May issue of Green Chemistry introducing The 13 Principles of Green Chemistry and Engineering for a Greener Africa (Green Chem., 2011, 13, 1059–1060, DOI: 10.1039/C0GC00936A). We would like to thank Samantha Tang for designing an eye-catching cover for the May issue to accompany this editorial.

We were also pleased to publish two themed issues during 2011, a web-themed issue of selected papers from the 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquids held in Dalian, and the June issue of selected papers presented at the Green Solvents for Synthesis meeting held in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Both of these issues can be accessed through the Green Chemistry website by selecting the ‘Themed issues’ tab.

Green Chemistry was honoured to sponsor a number of conferences during 2011, including the lecture given by Maria Forsyth at Congress on Ionic Liquids – 4 and the lecture given by Istvan Horvath at the 3rd Asia-Oceania Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry.

Looking forward to the year ahead we will be introducing the option to authors of publishing their article as an ‘Accepted Manuscript’, which is an unedited and unformatted version of their article that is published shortly after acceptance. The ‘Accepted Manuscript’ will be available as a downloadable pdf file, which is then replaced by the fully edited and formatted Advance Article in due course. This is an optional additional publishing service we will be offering to our authors shortly.

To keep up to date with all of the Green Chemistry news throughout the year we would encourage you to visit our blog at http://blogs.rsc.org/gc/ where we highlight hot papers published in the Journal with news from the Green Chemistry team.

During 2012 we plan to attend a number of conferences and we hope to have the opportunity to meet many of our readers and referees at these conferences. We will be adding information to the blog regarding which conferences we will be attending. In the meantime we would like to wish you all a very happy and successful 2012.

 

Martyn Poliakoff

Chair of the Editorial Board

 

Walter Leitner

Scientific Editor

 

Sarah Ruthven

Editor

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